The Academic Training in Aging for Florida Educators (ATAFE) Project is a federally-funded education program for beginning teachers, designed to promote more positive attitudes toward aging and older persons among youth through the inclusion of aging education in the preparation of elementary and secondary school teachers. ATAFE provides beginning…

Definitions, advantages, and functions of nutrition are the starting point for this food service training manual, which includes lessons on proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, and water- and fat-soluble vitamins. Energy foods for child nutrition programs are also identified, as are balanced diets and meal pattern guidelines. Class activities,…

This Samoan language manual is designed for use by both teachers and students. The manual outlines and explains each lesson for the teacher and provides a source of reference for the learner. The lessons are intended for use in the classroom under the direction of the teacher. Total immersion in Samoan and exclusion of English are important…

This guide is designed to aid the advisor for the Future Homemakers of America/Home Economics Related Occupations (FHA/ HERO) in developing a well-organized, creatively integrated, and successful FHA/HERO chapter. The guide is written in a question-and-answer format. Chapter 1 focuses on the benefits of FHA/HERO, how it relates to home economics…

Describes in detail a complete Latin lesson for a heterogeneously grouped 5th and 6th grade class in an inner city public school in Philadelphia. (PM)

Using a practical example from teaching Russian, the article surveys the various steps in the planning of a teaching procedure. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Article investigated child-rearing practices in other lands as well as student attitudes on how to maintain a reasonable balance of freedom and responsibility for children. (Author/RK)

This textbook is a course in mental arithmetic that is essentially based on the object-lesson plan. It is believed that the pupil in the primary school can more readily acquire a familiarity with numbers from the use of objects and pictures than from an uninterrupted drill on the tables. It also includes suggestions for teachers how to use the…

This guide, published by the New York City Board of Education, presents 62 lesson plans in basic mathematics for tenth grade students. Lesson plans and performance objectives focus on the following areas: (1) fundamental operations with signed numbers; (2) linear, weight and temperature measurements; (3) fractions, decimals and percents; (4)…

THE SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS DEFINED THE SUPERIOR STUDENT AS ONE WHO COULD ASSOCIATE AND INTERRELATE CONCEPTS AND COULD CRITICALLY EVALUATE FACTS AND ARGUMENTS. HE COULD CREATE NEW IDEAS AND ORIGINATE NEW LINES OF THOUGHT, HE HAD THE ABILITY TO REASON COMPLEX PROBLEMS THROUGH AS WELL AS TO UNDERSTAND OTHER SITUATION, OTHER TIMES, AND OTHER PEOPLE.…

This lesson book, which is the first in a four-level program for young children with learning difficulties, describes the purpose of and equipment and procedures for teaching lessons in the following subject areas on the kindergarten level: arithmetic concepts, number concepts, reading readiness, vocabulary, language, listening, social behavior,…

Two improvements in supervisory practice would improve the effectiveness of student teaching: development of a set of objectives derived from a theoretical model of instruction to allow for meaningful observation, recording, and reporting of student teacher performance, and provision of feedback to inform the student teacher of his performance in…

Designed for elementary students with learning disabilities, this lesson plan's objectives are to teach direction words utilizing the outdoors. Worksheets provide directions for finding materials and/or building the terrarium (e.g., "look 'under' the slide,""put parts 6 and 7 'under' part 5 so they won't blow away," etc.). (JC)

The author chose six social functions of art and planned three sample lessons for each. The lessons are aimed at helping secondary students understand these functions by trying to put them into practice. They are concerned with encouraging students to investigate, describe, and reflect on the social realities around them. (Author/GC)

Thomas Cole's painting, "The Architect's Dream," is used to illustrate a middle school lesson on how artists interpret cityscapes. Includes suggestions for classroom activities. (AEM)