Developed at Auburn University, Alabama, and based on Adult Performance Level (APL) research conducted at the University of Texas, the two teaching modules for adult career education in this curriculum guide are for the health and for the consumer economics curriculum areas. Focus is on development of basic skills in communication, problem…

This training product was developed for the Teacher Corps and designed for use by the intern to help him or her learn ways of quickly establishing rapport with troubled youth. Specific objectives are: (a) that the intern will be sensitized to the affective nature of the commitment to teaching troubled youth; (b) that the intern will be able to…

The information in this supplementary notebook is intended to provide teachers with additional materials, ideas, suggestions, and activities to help in implementing the Applied Communication modules that combine language arts skills with vocational applications. The Applied Communication instructional materials were funded and developed by a…

A curriculum used over a 3-year period in statewide training programs for residential child care workers is organized and described according to 11 training modules. The modules focus on increasing the self-awareness of the human service professional and on presenting basic facts about human development, procedures for assessment and planning, and…

Arranged into six parts, the booklet offers practical and motivating techniques for teaching elementary school students the basic rules of etiquette. The areas of general etiquette, cleanliness, introductions, table manners, telephoning, and thank you notes are included. Each section contains simple guidelines on how to act and react in social…

This resource guide provides those teaching the Family Relations course of the Ohio Work and Family Life Program an overview of the course content, teacher background information, learning activities, and assessment ideas. It has one teaching module for each process competency and each content competency in the Family Relations and Process…

As part of Project IMPACT's efforts to identify and develop procedures for complying with the impact requirements of Public Law 94-482, a case study was made of the Illinois Occupational Survival Skills Project. The purpose of the Occupational Survival Skills Project was to develop curriculum materials to help prepare high school students to…

Unit five of the social science strand for second graders expands the conceptual field of the child from the school to the community. This teacher's guide provides instructional and assessment activities for kits 17-20. Focus, materials and objective for each activity are given in Spanish and English, with teacher instructions in Spanish only.…

Career guidance techniques in this package focus on the competency area of working relationships. The package is one of eight, each covering one of the following career guidance competencies that were identified and validated as needed by teachers to assist in the career development of their students: Valuing, decisionmaking, lifestyle, community…

A project was conducted to provide descriptive data regarding mid-career women in administration and to develop program materials based on these data. Specific project objectives were (1) to provide descriptive data identifying areas of concern for mid-career women in adminstration; (2) to review selected literature in the fields of the psychology…

This Child Development Associate (CDA) training module, the fifth in a series of 16, focuses on preparing trainees in a bilingual/bicultural preschool teacher training program to help young children to develop social skills. The text of the module deals with: (1) fundamental principles of social development, (2) factors which influence social…

This volume, the fifth in a series of seven, contains the two learning modules which focus on the fourth Child Development Associate (CDA) competency, promoting positive functioning of children and adults in a group environment, in the Texas A & I Bilingual Bicultural Child Development Associate Training Program performance based curriculum.…

This curriculum package on communications, the machinery of management for new hires, has been developed by the Workforce 2000 Partnership, a network of industries and educational institutions that provides training in communication, computation, and creative thinking to employees and supervisors in textile, apparel, and carpet industries at 15…

Designed to last approximately 7 days, Unit II of a 4-unit career development and life planning program for rural high school students focuses on teaching students decision making skills to enable them to exercise more control over their time and energies. The unit introduces the decision making process; provides practice in applying the process…

This resource guide provides those teaching the Parenting core course area of the Ohio Work and Family Life Program an overview of the course content, teacher background information, learning activities, and assessment ideas. It has one teaching module for each process competency and each content competency in the Parenting and Process Competency…