This article identifies content and process components for developing and evaluating schoolwide programs as well as programs for individual secondary students with mild disabilities. Program comprehensiveness and flexibility are stressed. Content components include social/oral communication, basic literacy, life skills, and others; process…

A systematic approach to curriculum development for students with severe disabilities enrolled in extended school year programs is described. The approach is community driven, consistent with student Individualized Education Program objectives, tailored to the individual student, and teaches functional skills performed by individuals without…

Between May 1967 and June 1970, the Houston Independent School District in consortium with 14 others contracted with USOE to coordinate the development of an organic curriculum. The project's purpose was to create a climate for change, while interpreting for Houston secondary schools the objectives of a plan that would be: relevant, based on…

The objectives, organization, procedures, suggested resources, and evaluation of a secondary level, individualized program in Afro-American history are provided. (DE)

Describes basic concepts, learner-centered educational objectives, and interagency aspects of ES'70, a comprehensive nationwide R & D program applying the systems approach to the improvement of secondary education. (JK)

After completing a freshman course that provides instruction in basic skills and acquaints them with five members of the English staff, students at Orono High School, Maine, can select according to their interests from among 37 courses in diverse areas: folklore, film study, mythology, modern grammar, English literature, expository writing, and…

This book attempts to present, in a simple, straightforward way, the basic principles involved in initiating and developing an individualized foreign language program. The underlying assumption is that individualized instruction has become bogged down by an image of menacing complexity, whereas, in reality, it need not be so. The book builds the…

Presents a rationale for sex education for the handicapped and lists instructional concepts relating to sex education which the authors feel should be considered by those developing IEPs for handicapped students. (SJL)

Evaluations of thirty career education projects in the school district of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are contained in this report. Fifteen of the projects concern classroom or shop instruction, six concern development and/or field testing of curriculum materials, and the remainder involve staff development, installation of shop equipment, job…

Reports on a study involving 12 industrial educators who were provided case studies describing two disabled students and asked to write an individualized educational program for one student based on a nonobjective curriculum and for the other using an objective curriculum. The latter programs matched more closely the established criteria. (CH)

Developed by the total staff at Vocational Village (Portland, Oregon), this handbook presents the following: (1) information about Vocational Village, a unique alternative high school which offers a program dedicated to helping economically and educationally disadvantaged youth between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one become independent,…

Focusing on the management of vocational curricula with a special emphasis on individualized instruction, a research and development project had a fourfold purpose: (1) design and development of a statewide curriculum management system (CMS), (2) testing of that system by developing additional individualized student materials and adapting existing…

The curriculum guide is designed to aid teachers in developing new curricular options as well as modifying existing components to meet the needs of individual secondary level handicapped learners. Section I, on foundations for secondary programing, addresses the prevailing philosophy regarding education of the handicapped; individualized education…

This individualized transition plan manual can be used by special and vocational educators in developing a curriculum plan for handicapped or special needs learners based on career goals and job selection. The introductory sections provide a description of the individual transition planning model, an outline of communication skills, and a list of…

This guide is designed to provide school personnel with information regarding the Individualized Career Education Plan (ICEP), created in cooperation with counselors and other high school personnel. The ICEP is described as a planning tool to assist school personnel in guiding, counseling, and instructing secondary school students. The nature of…