This teaching guide provides secondary business teachers with ideas for teaching consumer education and assistance in strengthening the course content and methodology. Content is presented in four parts. Part 1 provides an overview of consumer education and covers the teacher, course objectives, content areas, and teaching-learning strategies…

This ninth in a series of twenty-nine learning modules on instructional execution is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers assistance in determining how the project method applies to their service area and in planning and implementing this method effectively. The terminal objective for the module is to employ the project…

Over the past ten years, language teachers have become adept at using new techniques for teaching culture. Folklore is one resource that has not been fully exploited, but that can lead students to a deeper understanding of culture and, at the same time, involve them in rich language experiences. Use of folklore in the foreign language classroom,…

Enjoyment of ethnic food can be the "point de depart" for tracing the heritage of the people being studied and for broadening students' horizons. This article outlines a study of food throughout the centuries, particularly in Europe. The "gastronomic route" begins historically with the Minoans around 2000 B.C., continues with…

Developed by experienced migrant education teachers using several Sight and Sound Program concepts, this volume presents approximately 150 pre-drafted individual short-term Plan/Records in the subject area of secondary level communication arts, and step-by-step utilization directions for Oregon resource teachers, classroom teachers, and aides. The…

This instructor's guide accompanies the student booklet/unit on job searches in the Employability Skills Series. (The booklet is available separately as CE 031 157.) It first discusses the Employability Skills Series. A section on administering the unit details purpose of the unit and major concepts to be developed, lists student performance and…

This instructor's guide accompanies the student booklet/unit on personal finances in the Employability Skills Series. (The student booklet is available separately as CE 031 163.) It first discusses the Employability Skills Series. A section on administering the unit details purpose of the unit and major concepts to be developed, lists student…

This instructor's guide accompanies the student booklet/unit on job changes in the Employability Skills Series. (The student booklet is available separately as CE 031 165.) It first discusses the Employability Skills Series. A section on administering the unit details purpose of the unit and major concepts to be developed, lists student…

To assist North Carolina Outward Bound School instructors in their responsibilities of ensuring that each student is able to achieve safely the objectives of developing self-confidence, concern for others, and self-awareness when confronted by 21 to 28 days of challenging, shared experience involving service and adventure, this revised fourth…

This module on elements and procedures involved in planning instruction is the fifth of 11 modules in the set, Introduction to Teaching Adults. Designed to meet the learning needs of part-time continuing education instructors, these modules can be used as resource materials for local workshops or study-discussion groups, as self-instruction (each…

Intended to supplement what is customarily taught in junior high school world history courses, this teacher's guide provides materials for three units on the role of women in world history. Each unit incorporates the student manual and includes background information, objectives, teaching procedures, learning activities, and a bibliography.…

Learning activities intended to supplement regular curriculum on Latin American studies at all grade levels are presented. Developed by 60 elementary, secondary, and college level teachers with the cooperation of 35 Latin Americanists at a cross-cultural seminar, the activities were generated with two key objectives in mind--(1) to expand and…

Step-by-step directions for primary and elementary level resource teachers, classroom teachers and aides instruct them about how to meet the individual reading instruction needs of Oregon migrant children (9,797 eligible in 1980-81) through predrafted Individual Short-Term Plan/Records. In this approach the teacher assumes the child will only be…

Using Jean Piaget's theory of thinking as a structuring mechanism, this paper presents a theoretical framework for the development of remedial, corrective, and developmental reading programs geared toward teaching reading comprehension. The four stages of intellectual development that Piaget has proposed (sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete…

Intended to provide supplementary material for existing courses in the various content areas, the activities in this book are designed to help high school students approach the act of reading in a more critical fashion. The book is divided into three sections, each of which contains approximately one term's work. The first section deals with…