The publication is designed to provide instruction for occupational training in the area of child development. It includes basic knowledges and skills in parenthood education, developmental child care, children's activities, child health, employment opportunities in the field, and working with special groups. The purpose of the publication is to…

This is number four in a series of resource manuals consisting of 11 sequenced curriculum guides developed by the Demonstration and Research Center for Early Education (DARCEE) for use in early childhood education programs. Emphasis is placed on the development of sensory, abstracting and mediating, and response skills. The projected order of the…

This guide provides 11 basic lessons for the English monolingual and English dominant sixth grader. It may also be adapted for other grade levels. The guide may be used independently as introductory material or as a supplement to other Spanish-as-a-second-language (SSL) programs. The units are designed to develop first the listening and speaking…

One of several investigations comprising a study of students' needs related to school vocational services in a three-county area, the document reports the results of a survey designed to include all senior high school teachers in 10 schools. The questionnaire is a 21-item instrument developed to provide information on the extent to which teachers…

The second unit of the grade four level of the FICSS series (Focus on Inner City Social Studies -- see SO 008 271) continues the study of man through cultural awareness of the diverse groups of people comprising America's heritage. Focusing specifically on American Indians, Afro-, Mexican-, and Asian-Americans, and European Immigrants, the unit is…

This activity supplement is intended to accompany the Puedo Leer/I Can Read Teacher's Guide for initial reading in Spanish for bilingual children. The supplement, which consists of a teacher's guide and a set of charts on card stock, provides suggestions for a wide variety of pre-reading activities and approaches, which expand on the activities…

A College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB)-sponsored survey presents data derived from the questionnaire responses of a representative sample of 1,814 secondary school seniors who took the CEEB Latin Achievement Test during the 1965-66 academic year. Written analyses of questionnaire data, along with many supporting graphs and charts, offer…

This teacher resource guide provides a model for dealing with sex role stereotypes in the elementary, intermediate, and secondary classroom. The major objective is to help students become conscious of sex role stereotyping in the world around them. Activities, open ended and inquiry oriented, involve students in analyzing history and contemporary…

This home economics course is designed to help pupils gain a better understanding of themselves and others, to provide opportunities for developing competence in certain home activities, and to give a better basis for making decisions about personal and family life. The goals of the home economics program and using the bulletin are briefly…

This booklet offers practical, easy-to-read suggestions for teachers, paraprofessionals, and parents to help them understand learning development and learning disabilities. The text outlines how the factors of heredity, maturation, and environment determine the degree of development an individual will achieve. The characteristics of children with…

This social studies curriculum bulletin is intended as a resource for teachers in grades 7-12. Social studies units are provided to teach students to cope with conflict, resolve issues, and bring about orderly social change. Seven problems are developed in detail: 1) the nature of democracy and role of the individual; 2) the challenge of urban…

This volume is a collection of papers by participants in the 1970 Annual Meeting of the National Council for Geographic Education. The presentations are an amplification of the substantive material on Metropolitan America presented at the Detroit meeting by lecturers and field trip leaders and include newly developed teaching materials on the…

The original objective of the nursery school was that acting in cooperation with the home, it should develop children motorically, intellectually, emotionally, and socially. A comparison of objectives with effects reveals many to be non-existent. A 1966 study of nursery school effects on child development revealed the following breakdown: (1)…

The selections in the first of eight parts of this book provide an overall perspective as both a guide through the many articles that follow and a frame of reference to use in selecting teaching methods and materials. Most of the articles in Part Two advocate more rather than less experience-oriented reading and suggest methods that rely on…

This vocational education curriculum guide for educable mentally handicapped high school students, an outgrowth of a Mississippi state research project, was developed by a professor from the University of Southern Mississippi's Department of Special Education to be field-tested, revised, and expanded. Under the general competencies of psychomotor…