Written by experienced language educator Paula Patrick, this 96-page book offers detailed guidelines to help new classroom teachers gain confidence and direction as they begin their teaching careers. In addition to step-by-step strategies for everything from classroom organization to navigating Back-to-School Night, the book includes sample lesson…

An instructional plan for kindergarten involving learning or interest centers is presented. The plan involves the development of stations for individual interest and skill development, including testing of readiness tasks. The teacher must plan the activities for each station. In classsrooms with only one teacher, only one station should be set up…

This instructional resource guide contains a variety of learning activities categorized according to specific instructional objectives for functional writing development. The activities were developed, reviewed, and evaluated by participants in Project Basic of the Maryland public school system. Thirty-eight objectives are arranged under five…

THE MENTALLY RETARDED PERSON MUST LEARN TO COPE WITH THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS OF DAILY LIVING FROM THE STANDPOINT OF HIS UNIQUE HANDICAP. SOME OF HIS NEEDS INCLUDE LEARNING TO--MAINTAIN A STATE OF PHYSICAL WELL-BEING, LIVE SAFELY, UNDERSTAND HIMSELF, GET ALONG WITH OTHERS, COMMUNICATE IDEAS, USE LEISURE TIME, EARN A LIVING, BE A HOMEMAKER, ENJOY…

Recounts how to use discussion groups to reinforce and expand upon lectures and how to link successive weekly topics by using thematic and role playing methods and a single theme. Theme used is perceptions of place and their ramifications in a decision making process. Journal availability: see SO 507 262. (Author/CK)

This collection of 30 business classroom activities is designed to help students become active thinkers and doers. It provides a variety of ways for reinforcing concepts, practicing problem-solving and critical-thinking skills, and having fun. This manual provides an objective, instructions, and a material list for each activity. Several…

Follow Through, which builds on the foundation provided by Head Start and similar preschool programs, is a program designed for children in the early primary grades. The Follow Through curriculum presented in this document is based on certain assumptions about children and the learning process, among them the understanding of the importance of…

This final section of an eight-part series of computer literacy workshops for classroom teachers provides forms for monitoring students' computer progress and reporting to parents, tips on computer use, ready-to-reproduce badges for computer-achieving students, fun computer facts, and a list of free or inexpensive resources and materials. (MBR)

The guide for a high school level auto body program provides learning activities for the special needs student. The program was developed taking into consideration the abilities of the students so that learning activities are within the grasp of the student, successful achievement is possible, and students are developed to a level where they can…

This unit is designed as a planning guide for a literature-based approach to teaching reading, writing, vocabulary, and reasoning. It serves as a model to reinforce the important aspects of literacy through a literature-based approach in which children read authentic literature and engage in authentic tasks relative to that literature. The unit…

Intended for teachers of grades 4-8, this book presents a flexible format for reading, designed to be used with students who have different backgrounds and experiences with reading literature. The book's first 3 sections, "Character,""Setting," and "Plot," proceed step-by-step through the recognition of these basic…

This book provides hands-on activities for grades 1-2 that make phonics instruction easy and fun for teachers and children in the classroom. The book offers methods for practice, reinforcement, and assessment of phonics skills. A poem is used to introduce the phonics element of this book, vowel diphthongs. The poem is duplicated so children can…

Teaching techniques, lessons, and activities for teaching English as a second language (ESL) in grades K through 12 are suggested. Cross-cultural suggestions, supportive ethno-pedagogical methods, and ideas for implementing the language experience approach to reading are provided within the framework of an activity-based program and an…

The purpose of the awards program is to initiate a new merger between economics and education by sharing innovative methods with all Illinois teachers for the teaching of personal economics. Personal economics is defined as the study of the individual's decision-making process and his/her participation in economic life in the roles of consumer,…

Intended for teachers of grades 2-6, this book offers methods to help students become lifelong readers. The book's instructions include emphasizing respect for the readers' choices of books and their own unique response to the literature. Information is intended to promote thoughtful analysis of what has been read and to validate readers'…