THIS PUBLICATION OF THE NCTE/ERIC CLEARINGHOUSE ON THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH, COMPILED BY THE NCTE COMMITTEE TO REVIEW CURRICULUM GUIDES, PROVIDES INFORMATIVE AND EVALUATIVE ANNOTATIONS FOR 39 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY CURRICULUM GUIDES. THESE GUIDES, REVIEWED AND RECOMMENDED IN 1965-67, ARE PRESENTED HERE AS A RESOURCE FOR SCHOOLS AND AGENCIES WHICH…

When teachers prepare their own curriculum outlines, crucial issues come to the surface, promoting examination of what teachers believe about themselves, about children, and about teaching. (Author/MLF)

The small school system of Genoa City, Wisconsin, developed a comprehensive curriculum to guide daily classroom instruction. Steps included selecting a textbook series before beginning the curriculum revision process and individualizing the guide by highlighting each teacher's areas of accountability. (MLF)

Presented is a description of a mathematics program for kindergarten through grade six, as recommended by the State Education Department of New York. The curriculum for each grade in elementary school mathematics, in this publication, is organized into five major strands: (1) number and numeration; (2) operations with whole numbers; (3) operations…

"The Core Knowledge Sequence (CKS) is a consensus-based model of specific content guidelines that, when used as the basis of about 50% of a school's curriculum, can provide a solid, coherent foundation of learning for students in the elementary grades." An introductory section discusses the CKS, its implementation, profiles of the CKS at…

The one-sheet fold-out curriculum guide suggests ways a teacher could integrate forestry in the curriculum. The guide develops an elementary, junior, and senior high school forestry curriculum as affecting the major functions or basic activities of man. Emphasis is on integrating forestry as a topic in the existing curriculum structure K-12. (BB)

This curriculum guide for developing musical behaviors in grades K-6 offers a model for moving the young child from basic knowledge attainments to higher levels of musical behavior. A procedure for developing and implementing course objectives is outlined. Concepts/skills to be acquired at given levels are provided to assist teachers and…

Analysis of 38 curriculum guides suggests the pace of change in English classrooms is slow and undramatic. (JH)

This publication, compiled by the NCTE Committee to Review Curriculum Guides, provides informative and evaluative annotations for 63 elementary and secondary curriculum guides. These guides, reviewed and recommended in 1965-1968, are presented as a resource for schools and agencies which are developing and writing curriculums. The annotations…

This publication, compiled by the NCTE Committee on Curriculum Bulletins, provides informative and evaluative annotations for 50 elementary and secondary curriculum guides. These guides, reviewed and recommended in 1965-1969, are presented to publicize good curriculum planning and guide writing and to provide models for schools revising their…

The purpose of this bulletin is to describe briefly the materials developed by the staff of Pueblo Elementary School, Scottsdale, Arizona, in a program aimed at providing individualized instruction in a continuous progress setting. Although each of the curriculum guides developed by the staff differ somewhat according to subject area, grade level,…

The new guidelines constitute a supplement to the New York State Syllabus for a Comprehensive Program: Home Economics Education. This new approach provides guidelines for reorganizing the program for Grades 5 and 6 into four basic subject areas and six content emphases. The four subject areas are: human development; housing, furnishing and…

This document features a curriculum guide for the development of K-6 theater course outlines. The guide establishes three major goals for drama/theatre education and the concepts pertinent to each goal. The objectives relevant to each concept are identified and stated in behavioral terms. For each objective, student experiences pertinent to that…

The first half of this booklet presents an annotated list of recommended curriculum guides representing a variety of sample frameworks, units, and lesson plans intended for reference use by schools and agencies who are in the process of developing a curriculum. Grouped according to the year in which the guides were recommended (1978, 1977, 1976),…

The materials in this teacher's guide have three general divisions that are based on a sequential progression from kindergarten through grade six. Section A (kindergarten through two) explores the world of the child and divides this world into identifiable study groups. Section B (third and fourth grades) deals with the needs of living things and…