The second year of the Community Family Day Care Project, begun in August 1970, to test the belief that group day care is the best way to provide care for children of working parents is discussed. The tasks for the second year were to demonstrate the feasibility of improving quality, stability, continuity, and flexibility in an existing network of…

The report describes an 18-month research project at Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois, designed to evaluate the effectiveness of inceptive motivation techniques in Air Force technical training. The first phase of the research identified incentives. The findings were used in the second phase of the research which made these incentives contingent on…

Four curriculum units for the sixth grade level focus on: (1) food production and nutrition, (2) food services, (3) physical and mental health, and (4) environmental conservation. Each unit's behavioral unit objectives emphasize career possibilities in the industries related to the unit's topic. A chart format is used to list suggested content…

Two curriculum units for educable mentally retarded (EMR) students focus on: (1) developing a good self image and an appreciation for proper hygiene, and (2) understanding food purchasing and distribution and the need for budgeting food money. Each unit includes the objective of making EMR students more aware of careers available either in the…

The curriculum guide is based on the Career Conscious Individual Career Education Model, designed to create career consciousness in students at all educational levels; to help them develop necessary life competencies, attitudes, and values; to assist them in visualizing possible careers; and to analyze and relate these roles to their present…

In order to expand the base of foreign language study in an increasingly international society, a general curriculum guide to Spanish instruction has been developed for all grades from kindergarten through junior college. The guide provides for the coordination of language programs at all grade levels within a school system. The guidelines, which…

This practicum reports on the introduction of educationally oriented strategies to overcome a "crisis of faith" between three target urban communities and their schools. The coordinated strategies were directed toward the communication of information about school programs and toward the individual involvement of parents. The practicum's effect was…

This collection of readings on teaching bilingual and bidialectal students, particularly the American Indian, the Spanish speaking, and the urban black, is divided into three sections, headed by a general overview of the problems. The first section deals with bicultural understanding; the readings are intended to help the teacher assess his own…

Social change and the ideas, feelings, and hopes of man which lead to the development of his institutions are the major focus of the eleventh grade FICSS series (Focus on Inner City Social Studies -- see SO 008 271). The units examine how the forces of stability and change culminated in the creation of the major historical documents which are the…

This textbook presents the study of Chinese through the use of English grammar in the hopes of moderating the extremes of the direct method and of structural analysis. It is intended to cover a one-year course, or six semester hours of introductory Chinese. The book contains 16 lessons, of which the first seven use romanized phonetic forms and…

In this paper on Hispanic studies, seven major areas of thought are developed. The classification of material includes: (1) the Spanish major in today's world, (2) learning the language, (3) history and the structures of the language, (4) literature and literary scholarship, (5) Spanish peninsular literature, (6) Spanish American literature, and…

This annotated catalogue of 16 mm educational films in Spanish covers a broad spectrum of topics. The extensive coverage accorded business management, child development, dental hygiene, education, family planning, health, industrial safety, labor, metalwork, sanitation, self-help, and teaching suggests the general type of film listed. Films are…

This report describes 3 years of research on identifying, categorizing, and comparing teachers' ideas about teaching. The study used two different groups of 32 Wisconsin elementary school teachers selected according to a stratified random sampling procedure. The first group of teachers participated in a taped 2-hour interview on their ideas about…

This address evaluates standardized language test results of students at the College of William and Mary in terms of their class grades and continuity of enrollment in language programs. Implications of the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT) and the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) test scores reflecting actual linguistic proficiency and…

This state foreign language curriculum guide provides a comprehensive overview of policy and suggested procedures for progress at the secondary school level. Major sections include: (1) philosophy and objectives of language study, (2) personnel in the language program, (3) principles of language learning, (4) methodology, (5) evaluation, (6)…