Curriculum guides can effectively guide practice if the guide writer pays attention to the context in which teachers work and to the language that teachers use in that context. Problems encountered by a curriculum project illustrate what happens in practice when guide writers fail to appreciate teachers' objectives. (RM)

This volume contains papers presented at the first conference for teachers of Japanese in Australia. Section one of the volume contains the opening presentation, by J. Neustupny, which discusses current trends in Japanese language teaching in Australia. Section two contains nine symposium papers, which deal with problems in secondary curricula for…

To produce a curriculum guide that is practical calls for an awareness of the working context of the practitioner and an ability to translate that intuitive awareness into an explicit description which captures the essence of what teaching is. Health education project materials are used to illustrate the translating demands. (RM)

Factors which affect communication with teachers via curriculum guides include how authors and readers conceptualize educational practice and teaching and audience characteristics. Although each of the predominant forms of discourse (persuasive, descriptive, theoretical) used to communicate practice prescriptions for teachers is flawed, the three…

Resource material relating outdoor education concepts to the education of emotionally handicapped children and youth distributed at six regional workshops (New York State, 1972-73 school year) constitutes the major element of this report on workshop proceedings. Detailed resource and/or curriculum guides prepared by local workshop consultants are…

Faculty members of many different library schools participated in an Institute on Library Service to the Blind and Physically Handicapped at Florida State University, August 27-September 1, 1978. These proceedings from that Institute include the instructional materials--revised as a result of the discussions at the Institute--used in five core…

Fifteen papers about the secondary geography curriculum are presented. Two papers from the Netherlands present a conceptual model for planning curriculum units and the relationship between the cognitive development of children and adolescents and the conceptual structure of geography. The Danish paper discusses geography's role in developing…

The purpose of PACE is to bring together individuals who have been responsible for new, innovative, and exciting developmental physical education programs. The following summaries are included: "Literacy in the Gym" (Tami Benham); "Activity Ideas for Fundamental Movement Skill Development" (Thomas H. Green); "Creative…

Three components of a conference are reviewed to explore how teaching and learning about Eastern Europe might contribute to European Studies in British secondary schools. A series of lectures provided information about contemporary East European societies and broke down preconceptions of Eastern Europe as a monolithic block. Workshop sessions…

Third in a series, this seminar was organized to study the various uses of computer science in education and to analyze the main trends in that field, as well as to discuss problems encountered by the national education systems of 10 countries in the implementation of computer education. This report from that seminar is divided into five major…

The proceedings of a seminar on integrating language instruction and academic content instruction include: two presentations surveying the current state of the art in content-based language instruction ("Language and Content Learning: Finding Common Ground," by Bernard Mohan and "Integrating Content and Language Instruction,"…

Selected papers from the 1984 and 1985 meetings of the Southern Conference on Language Teaching include: "Perspectives on Proficiency: 1985"; "Developmental Stages in Functional Language Proficiency"; "Cultural Understanding, Oral Proficiency, and Study Abroad: Getting It All Together"; "Developing Functional…