Considerable research suggests that standardizing curricular materials can undermine teachers' ability to facilitate learning. Nonetheless, U.S. school districts' curriculum guides have become increasingly standardized, with teachers being required to follow predetermined pacing calendars indicating which standards to teach during specific months,…

This qualitative case study describes how one beginning primary grade teacher benefited from collaborative lesson-planning meetings with her grade-level colleagues. The teacher accumulated knowledge of curriculum, pedagogy, and professional contexts as she participated in planning meetings each week during her first year of teaching. Furthermore,…

The guidelines are designed to aid schools in developing their own curriculum guides and to assist teachers in planning courses, units of work, and daily classroom activities. The emphasis is on objectives designed to produce linguistic competencies and cultural knowledge. Because the primary objective of Latin instruction relates to achievement…

The major purpose of this study was to revise the basic production agriculture curriculum guide used by vocational agrculture teachers in Texas. A twenty-five member advisory committee for curriculum revision conducted the following activities: (1) obtained thirty-one curriculum guides for a technical agriculture program, (2) surveyed vocational…

TIME ALLOTMENT CHARTS ARE GIVEN SHOWING THE RECOMMENDED PORTION OF THE SCHOOL DAY TO BE GIVEN TO INSTRUCTION IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS AND OTHER SUBJECTS, GRADES 1 THROUGH 8. A CHART SHOWING RELATIONSHIPS OF READING LEVEL TO GRADE LEVEL IS GIVEN IN A FIFTEEN-LEVEL SEQUENCE, PARALLELING A BASAL READING SERIES. ALSO CONTAINED IS A FLOW CHART OF…

AN OPERATING MANUAL FOR PART FIVE OF A SIX-PART SERIES OF KITS DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THE USE OF TELEVISION AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE LEARNING PROCESSES IN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS IS PRESENTED. EACH KIT CONTAINS A FILM AND SUPPORTING SUPPLEMENTARY RESOURCE MATERIAL. SEQUENTIAL VIEWING OF THE SERIES IS NOT REQUIRED AS EACH KIT IS…

Following adoption of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) in 1998, new prekindergarten curriculum guidelines were developed. These voluntary guidelines articulate what 3- and 4-year-olds should know and be able to do and provide a means to align prekindergarten programs with the TEKS curriculum. The guidelines are intended to assist…

CURRICULUM GUIDES FOR GRADE 7 "LIFE SCIENCE" AND GRADE 8 "EARTH SCIENCE" WERE DEVELOPED BY 24 AREA TEACHERS AND THREE SAM HOUSTON STATE COLLEGE PROFESSORS. THE PROJECT WAS SUPPORTED BY THE TEXAS SMALL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION, THE LOCAL SCHOOLS, AND FUNDS FROM THE TITLE III PROGRAM. THE TEACHER GUIDES WERE PREPARED TO IMPROVE THE…

TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE SLOW LEARNER AT THE SECONDARY LEVELS, CAREFULLY PLANNED AND TESTED GUIDELINES ARE SET FORTH FOR SELECTION OF PUPILS, STANDARDS FOR GRADING, AND GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS. LESSON PLANS AND SUGGESTIONS, MATERIALS, AND TEXTBOOKS ARE INCLUDED. COURSES COVERED ARE LANGUAGE ARTS, JUNIOR HIGH ARITHMETIC, MATHEMATICS IN HIGH SCHOOL,…

The guide is designed to give Texas school personnel detailed suggestions for developing career awareness beginning with kindergarten and continuing through grade 6. The document opens with a rationale for career education and lists career concepts and objectives. The responsibilities of the elementary school principal and teacher in integrating…

Developed through a study of concepts and subconcepts included in a number of instructional materials and evaluated by state education agency personnel and homemaking teachers, this framework is designed to aid the teacher in planning local homemaking programs and in developing local curriculum guides. Vocational home economics in Texas consists…

Assistance for school districts, accreditation teams, and education service centers in the development and use of local curriculum documents is provided in this publication. District responsibility to develop local curriculum guides has led to a lack of standardization, which in turn has complicated assessment. State requirements and standards for…

Designed to assist administrators, supervisors, and elementary and secondary school classroom teachers and theater specialists in developing a sequential theater arts curriculum, this curriculum guide provides directions for developing curricular and cocurricular theater arts programs based on the individual needs of learners from kindergarten…

This publication presents a conceptual framework for grades K through 12 energy education in Texas. Matrices are used in which "basic concerns of people" such as: (1) individual well-being; (2) career; and (3) social interactions are given on one axis and three learning dimensions: (1) knowledge; (2) applications; and (3) values are used…

The Texas Real Estate Research Center-Texas Education Agency (TRERC-TEA) curriculum workshop was attended by over 40 participants representing 26 Texas community colleges. These participants divided into eight small groups by real estate specialty area and developed curriculum outlines and learning objectives for the following real estate courses:…