The paper reports on the challenges faced by the curriculum developers in implementing multilingual education in Fiji classrooms. A qualitative methodological orientation which included phenomenological approach to study was employed. Relevant data was gathered through interviews. The results showed that while Curriculum Development Unit (CDU) is…

The purpose of the career awareness teacher's guide is to assemble in convenient form learning activities that will give elementary students a greater understanding and awareness of self and the occupational world that surrounds him. The guide is divided into grades 1-6 and organized into monthly sections. For each of the nine months there are…

Discusses resources available on the World Wide Web related to children's literature. Highlights include Web sites that have curriculum ideas for teachers and suggested activities for classes; sites set up by authors and illustrators to promote their work and communicate with their readers; and a list of recommended Web sites. (LRW)

The handbook briefly defines career education, its components, importance and perspective, and then describes the progress of career education in Menominee, Michigan. Necessary skills in career education are outlined (public relations, interviewing, field trips, selecting activities, and incorporating basic skills). Step-by-step instructions are…

This document presents the results of a program-evaluation questionnaire given to elementary-school teachers in the State College Area School District, Pennsylvania. These teachers participated in an environmental education program under the auspices of an ESEA Title III Grant. The objectives of the program were to provide in-service activities in…

THE CHILD WITH NO SPEECH HANDICAPS NEEDS TRAINING IF HE IS TO DEVELOP A SPEECH PATTERN WHICH IS AN ASSET RATHER THAN A LIABILITY. THE REGULAR CLASSROOM TEACHING MUST BE PREPARED TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTION IN CORRECT SPEAKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES. THE CURRICULUM SHOULD PROVIDE FOR INSTRUCTION IN THE BASIC ATTITUDES AND…

WRITTEN FOR THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LEVEL, A SERIES OF SIMPLE STORIES IS PRESENTED. THESE ARE INTENDED TO ILLUSTRATE CONCEPTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF THE PREJUDICIAL AND DISCRIMINATORY ATTITUDES OF OUR TIME. A SERIES OF LEARNING EXPERIENCES MAY BE DEVELOPED, USING THE STORIES AS A TOOL. THE FOLLOWING HEADINGS ARE GIVEN--"SCHOOL…

This sourcebook is designed to assist school systems in developing a comprehensive curriculum for environmental education in grades K-12. A consideration of the need for environmental education is projected in Chapter 1 through a set of objectives together with an analysis indicating ethics and attitudes about environment to be the most…

This booklet provides an assortment of materials relating to a cognitive approach to community-based multicultural education. In a brief discussion, the first article presents a preliminary formulation of some views about multicultural education. The text includes a list of basic skills and thinking processes which may be taught and learned…

Basic information for the development of a consumer and homemaking experience-centered program in the elementary school is provided in this resource guide. Content is presented in outline form to facilitate use by both educators who do and do not have homemaking teachers on their staff. The following sections are included: (1) the homemaking…

Urban education must be facilitated by (1) extensive development of teaching material; (2) implementing the possibilities found in discipline-based, issue-based, or student-based curriculum design; and (3) improving instruction: the keystone of the educational program. (JB)

This career education consultant package for use with staff at the primary grade level is one of a set of six packages of consultants' materials developed to serve as a guide for consulting staff presenting career education workshops in the following areas: Counselors, primary K-3, intermediate, junior and senior high, and administrators. (The…

The information in this guide has been compiled to provide the teachers of the Clark County School District with a teaching resource for drug abuse education. Grade levels are divided as K-3, 4-6, 7-9, and 10-12 with behavioral objectives for the drug abuse education program stated for each level. Fact sheets for pertinent topics are provided…

Prepared by the vocational education division of a state department of education and compiled by industrial arts educators, this resource guide provides a conceptual basis for the elementary teacher using industrial arts as a means of introducing children to industrial processes and orienting them to the physical and material world. Included in…