Two fire education programs for young children are described. The basic principles of both programs are the same: keep it short, make it fun, and get the children involved. The first program addresses what to do if clothes catch fire, teaching about matches, and exiting during a fire (crawling under smoke, raising windows, and unlocking doors).…

Described a program designed to help no-English speaking and/or foreign-born students adjust to the environment of the American classroom. (Author/RK)

Outlines a program of study based on the novel. (RB)

The annotated bibliography contains approximately 60 citations (l973 - 1976) on programs, teaching methods and curriculum for gifted students. The bibliography is explained to be composed of citations from volume eight of Exceptional Child Education Resources. Entries are arranged according to accession number and usually provide information on…

The purpose of this diagnostic-prescriptive reading system (DPRS), proposed by Palm Beach County and the Florida Atlantic University and sponsored by the Florida Department of Education, was to provide classroom teachers with resources which would enable them to more effectively meet the individual reading needs of their students. This report…

A program has been developed by the St. Louis, Missouri, school system providing educable mentally retarded (EMR) boys, aged 8 to 15, with industrial arts education. Courses are divided into upper, intermediate, and primary levels, by age, with students working with a variety of materials. (LH)

A reading system built on whole group instruction, in this case a second-grade reader, often cannot meet the needs of individuals. Author, a second-grade teacher, resolved the dilemma by finding a way to use the basal reader with an individualized approach. (Author/RK)

The author presents a role-playing exercise in which students must examine their motivation for parenthood. (Author)

Describes a journalism course which teaches reporting skills for use in arts and entertainment writing. (RB)

Describes a model parenting program at Prairie View Elementary School, Gainesville, Florida, aimed at providing preventive, developmental and educational services for new parents and their children. (CM)

Describes a project at Columbus East Senior High School, Columbus, Indiana, where supergraphics have been developed to the level of a sophisticated art form. This form of art serves a dual role as a pleasing decorative element and as a means of identification of specific areas within a building. Aside from being a constructive design activity,…

Describes a staff development program for college level political science faculty. The article reflects on the realities of university life and implications for faculty; describes the program's background and its content; and offers a preliminary evaluation. (Author/JR)

A program was described whose essential aim was to see things at once both more acutely (structure) and more broadly (context), to develop accurate and alternative means for communicating one's particular visual awareness, and in so doing discover processes involved, making them part of one's consciousness and applying them to "daily" situations,…

With the understanding that law is an ever present part of our lives from birth to death, Law Focused Education, Inc. is attempting to develop a program that will reach students from kindergarten through grade twelve. The program's emphasis is in the area of social studies and attempts to teach significant concepts of law to students. (Author/RK)