North Dakota Occupational Models have been developed from the practices of actual offices and businesses in the State, duplicating real jobs and work materials and complete with pressure and decision-making activities, to provide realistic work experiences for secondary students who have completed the basic skills courses in office education. A…

This book of readings in educational psychology for teachers contains selections which are both historical and technological. More emphasis is placed on general information and direct educational applications than on theoretical and experimental education psychology, and some of the articles have been abridged. Topics covered include teacher…

Eight social studies programs in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, New York, and Virginia are described which offer high school students an opportunity to study the history of the United states using innovative, nontraditional approaches. The content of the eight courses is outlined and discussed in terms of objectives, teacher rationale in designing…

The instructor's guide to the course designed to acquaint supervisors, with such behavioral science theories as motivation, leadership, group dynamics, and change, stresses student participation through group discussion, role-playing, incident-process case discussion, and management simulation or games. The course is organized around four themes…

This 2,380-item annotated bibliography is a selective list of books and articles related to foreign language pedagogy. The entries are grouped by topic, in the following individual sections: Festschriften and Other Analyzed Collections, General, Bilingualism, Linguistics, Culture, Teaching the Foreign Literature, Curricular Problems and…

This activity is one of a series of 17 teacher-developed instructional activities for geography at the secondary-grade level described in SO 009 140. The activity investigates economic change in developing nations. It employs the dialogue approach. Given data about the Aswan High Dam in Egypt and about the environment of northeast Africa, students…

Nineteen units of lesson plans for teaching career orientation and exploration to students in grades 8 and 9 stress positive attitudes, self-knowledge, occupational information, and basic career skills; topics range from world-of-work orientation, self-appraisal, and occupational clusters to tentative career choice, job application, and career…

The career exploration program for grades 9 through 10, as part of a comprehensive K through 10 career development program, attempts to develop an awareness of and appreciation for work, extend knowledge of the variety of career opportunities, and provide experiences in career areas of individual interest. The document, a collection of materials…

This is the 10th in a series of bibliographies of those documents related to the teaching of foreign languages available from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service. This list consists of documents processed into the ERIC system by the various clearinghouses from May 1972 through September 1972. The 377 entries are arranged in alphabetical order…

This is the 11th in a series of bibliographies of those documents related to the teaching of foreign languages available from the ERIC Document Reproduction Service. This list consists of documents processed into the ERIC system by the various clearinghouses from October 1972 through March 1973. The 404 entries are arranged in alphabetical order…

Of special use to departments in 4-year colleges and universities which have responsibilities for preparing teachers of English and for developing in-service projects for 2-year college personnel, this book details instructional techniques and curricular materials for the community college teacher of English and for those in preparation for such…

In a cerebral palsy-blind experimental school unit for day and residential care, a staff of 13 served 30 children in 6 years with 12 to 17 children each year. All but six children who were found to be nontrainable progressed: eight became trainable, eight trainable and partly educable, and eight educable. Variable progress was found characteristic…

An experimental curriculum guide for the trainable mentally retarded of all ages utilizes activities sequenced in order of difficulty. The unit on self understanding and self care treats physical self and personal care; the communication unit covers language development and observational and listening skills; the social competence unit considers…

Elements involved in the teaching and administering of classes for the mentally retarded are discussed, and the school program is described. The administrator's role and areas of concern are detailed; and parent teacher conferences are considered, with six guide sheets and an outline provided. The following are treated: teacher qualifications,…

Although there might not be any one solution to the problems of how and when to introduce literature effectively into the college language curriculum, stress, at any level, should be placed both on student enjoyment and the relevancy and difficulty of the reading materials selected. College language teachers must investigate (1) what constitutes…