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Peer reviewedLund, David – British Journal of Special Education, 1986
The article discusses the benefits of craft, design, and technology (CDT) activities for children with special educational needs. Activities such as craftwork can contribute to improved motor skills, self-image, and basic language and math skills. CDT teachers are encouraged to adapt their teaching methods and styles to meet special needs. (JW)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Ceramics, Daily Living Skills, Disabilities
Download full textOffice of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1951
A number of conditions are responsible for the disparity between the widely held educational ideal and the disturbing fact that even today about 30 percent of the youth do not even begin high school and 30 percent more do not complete the work begun. Foremost among the deterrents to high-school attendance are: The need or the desire to help earn…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Practical Arts, Democracy, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedBeecher, Mark; Fischer, Lane – Journal of College Admission, 1999
Surveys college freshmen about different types of high school coursework and their relationship to academic aptitude and college success. Possible predictors of college success considered are the number of "academic,""aesthetic," and "practical" course credits, as well as high school grade point average, American…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Aesthetic Education, College Freshmen
Kneidek, Tony – Northwest Education, 1996
Deliberately patterned on the recommendations of the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, Hellgate Middle School (Montana) teaches practical skills to promote critical thinking, teamwork, and decision-making skills; uses computer-assisted learning to allow student exploration and individualized learning; includes an interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Experiential Learning, Junior High Schools, Middle School Students
Clemson Univ., SC. Vocational Education Media Center. – 1980
These sixty-seven modules provide student materials for a home economics course in housing and home furnishings. (A companion instructor's guide is available separately--see note.) Each module contains an objective, student information, learning activities (and activity sheets as needed), student self-checks, student self-check answers, check-out…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists, Electrical Appliances, Furniture
Finney, Margaret; And Others – 1994
This unit utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to economics education for children in middle school. The focus is on consumer awareness and there are four sections of learning activities and suggestions, one for each of the core disciplines: language arts, social studies, science, and math. The unit gives students experiences with concepts…
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Consumer Education, Consumer Science, Economics
Phelps, Phil R.; And Others – 1988
This report describes a concept for providing innovative opportunities for Virginia students identified as gifted in the technical arts or other areas. The approach unites the areas of vocational education, programs for the gifted, and career education and guidance in a partnership to: encourage gifted students to pursue offerings in vocational…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Atkins, Barbara, Ed. – 1984
This guide contains standards designed to encourage local educational agencies to redesign consumer home economics programs to meet the present and future needs of students and adults in the 1980s and 1990s. A procedure is suggested for using them in redesign or development of new and innovative articulated programs. The standards include nine…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Child Rearing, Consumer Education
McCarron, Lawrence; And Others – 1982
The curriculum guide was designed to teach prevocational and independent living skills to students with a wide range of handicapping conditions. The SSSQ (Street Survival Skills Questionnaire) curriculum presents information on objectives, materials, suggested performance criteria, teacher strategies, and specific students activities for the…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills
Ray, Willis E. – 1978
Since schools seem to exist for the purpose of preparing students for more schooling rather than assisting youth to cope effectively with life problems, schools should be reorganized to include a large segment of practical arts experience that provides both a broadening and humanizing effect as well as to allow for the development of the…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Business Education, Curriculum Development, Distributive Education
Henrico County Public Schools, Glen Allen, VA. Virginia Vocational Curriculum Center. – 1988
This task analysis guide is intended to help teachers and adminstrators develop instructional materials and implement competency-based education in the course, Life Management Skills I. Section I contains a validated task inventory for this course. For each task, applicable information pertaining to performance and enabling objectives and…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Clothing Instruction, Competency Based Education, Course Content
Henrico County Public Schools, Glen Allen, VA. Virginia Vocational Curriculum Center. – 1988
This task analysis guide is intended to help teachers and adminstrators develop instructional materials and implement competency-based education in the course, Life Management Skills II. Section I contains a validated task inventory for this course. For each task, applicable information pertaining to performance and enabling objectives and…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Clothing Instruction, Competency Based Education, Course Content
Arkansas State Dept. of Education, Little Rock. – 1987
This guide outlines the basic, developmental, and extension skills that should be covered in practical arts courses (for grades 7 and 8) presented within the framework of agricultural, business, home economics, and industrial arts/technology education programs. The first section lists practical arts skills related to the following areas of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Business Education
Havlicek, Larry; And Others – 1978
Over 6,000 sixth- and twelfth-grade students from 33 school districts in Kansas were tested in 13 areas of academic and non-academic skills: arts and humanities; communication; mathematics; career preparation; consumer preparation; environmental education; health; nutrition; preparation for a changing society; safety; self concept; science; and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment
Gerboc, Ronald E. – 1980
A report is presented on a two-year project developed by the Cleveland Public Schools to develop and pilot-test a "packaged" curriculum model designed to support both the basic and functional skill development of high school students in each of five major content areas--English, social studies, mathematics, science, and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Consumer Education, Curriculum Development, Daily Living Skills
