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Kinsler, Karen Taber; Sinatra, Richard – Reading Teacher, 1977
Suggests that values clarifying procedures implemented within the language arts program can improve children's self-image and their attitude toward reading and other language arts skills. Gives examples of values strategies. (JM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Language Arts, Reading, Self Concept
Sinatra, Richard; Kinsler, Karen Taber – 1975
Values clarification strategies or activities in which children explore, list, order, and code their experiences and thoughts, combined with language experience techniques, can provide meaningful reading situations. Values strategies function as affective mobilizers to bring a child's attitudes and emotions into interaction with learning…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Experience Approach, Reading Instruction, Self Concept
Wiggins, Gene – G/C/T, 1978
Guidelines in value clarification are offered to help the teacher of gifted students increase self-knowledge through prizing, choosing, and acting. Questions for the teacher as well as a sample lesson plan are provided. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Individual Power, Self Concept
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Guinn, Robert – Journal of Teacher Education, 1977
A central problem area in bicultural education lies in the determination of the methods and techniques that will prove most effective in enabling the Spanish-speaking child to make optimum use of educational opportunities. (MM)
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Cultural Pluralism, Individualized Instruction, Self Concept
Kelley, Felonese Wilson – 1976
The effect of the use of selected values clarification strategies on self-concept, school sentiment, and reading achievement was investigated in a sample of 240 pupils in grades four, five, and six, of two elementary schools. Teachers in the experimental school were trained in values clarification through a series of workshops; teachers in the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Intermediate Grades, Reading Achievement, Reading Research
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Ohlde, Carroll D.; Vinitsky, Michael H. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1976
Effects of self-esteem and values-clarification strategies on value awareness were assessed in an hour values-clarification workshop. Subjects participating in the workshop showed significantly greater gains in value awareness than nonparticipants, confirming that values-clarification strategies are valid means for clarifying personal values of…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Moral Values, Research Projects, Self Concept
Childers, John H., Jr. – 1983
This workbook on highlighting self and career awareness through value-related activities, the second in a series of three vocational career orientation self-developmental units, was designed for use at the junior high school level. The introductory section outlines the goals of the workbook, its structure, and the nature of the activities included…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Planning, Classroom Techniques, Guidelines
Read, Donald A. – 1977
This workbook deals with values clarification strategies in the area of health education. It is designed to serve as a tool for expanding self awareness. The underlying assumption is that cognitive knowledge is only half of what is necessary for understanding one's own feelings and making decisions about such potential life problems as drugs, sex,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age, Attitude Change, Attitudes
Tilley, Herbert, Ed.
The Student Development Plan consists of a set of learning activity packages for teacher use in secondary school classrooms. It covers the following general areas as they relate to vocational development: (1) self awareness (four activities), (2) value clarification (10 activities), (3) career data and information seeking (four activities), and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Planning, Curriculum Guides, Decision Making
Astin, Alexander W.; Astin, Helen S. – 1999
During the past three years more than 80 scholars, students, and educational leaders have participated with the Higher Education Research Institute in an extended series of dialogues about issues of spirituality, authenticity, meaning, wholeness, and self-renewal in higher education. These dialogues explored issues related to: achieving a greater…
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Faculty, Collegiality, Higher Education
Nevo, Dana; Wiese, Dorene – 1982
This instructional package consists of activity guides, materials, and background information on selected areas pertinent to the self-development of a native American Indian participant group. Covered in its six units are the following topics: self-image and success (motivation and success, personal discovery, tools and assessment instruments,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alcoholism, American Indians, Behavioral Objectives
Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green. – 1987
This curriculum guide was developed to help teachers/trainers conduct classes in life skills for single parents or displaced homemakers. The curriculum guide contains dozens of learning activities organized in the following three sections: self-concept (self-awareness, self-communication, and self-management); networking; and employability skills…
Descriptors: Displaced Homemakers, Employment Potential, Females, Job Skills