Designed to provide specific instructional suggestions for integrating basic reading and writing instruction in the elementary school, the lesson ideas presented in this booklet are applicable across grade levels and can be used with any basic reading and language arts textbook series. The 30 ideas cover a variety of areas, including the…

The lessons in this 10-day unit for high school sophomores are designed to: (1) acquaint students with terminology related to visual literacy; (2) enable students to make comparisons between drama for the theater and drama for film; (3) acquaint students with the basic structural elements of film such as movement, lighting, sound and music,…

This curriculum guide is designed for use by South Carolina vocational education teachers as a continuing set of lesson plans for a two-year course on welding. Covered in the individual sections of the guide are the following topics: an orientation to welding, oxyacetylene welding, advanced oxyacetylene welding, shielded metal arc welding, TIG…

This module, one in a series of 127 performance-based teacher education learning packages, focuses on specific professional competencies of vocational teachers. The materials are designed for use by preservice and inservice teachers working individually or in groups under the direction and with the assistance of teacher educators. This module…

These instructional materials were produced as part of the project, Developing Computational Estimation Materials for the Middle Grades. The introduction to these sixth grade materials covers the following: why teach estimation; how the materials were developed; and how the lessons are organized. The 15 lessons that follow are designed to teach…

This first-grade curriculum guide for health education (Duval County Public Schools, Jacksonville, Florida) is designed according to a comprehensive program (K-12) to assist the student in gaining an intelligent understanding of health as a unity of man's physical, mental, and social well-being. Included in the guide are a course outline, primary…

Lesson 6 of the "New Horizon English Course 3" is presented. An appendix giver English exercises for lessons 1-11 of the same book. These lessons are intended to help improve the oral skills of junior high school students in Japan learning English as a second language. (Text is in Japanese.) (TL)

Designed to tap the rich collection of instructional techniques in the ERIC database, this compilation of lesson plans offers practical suggestions for teaching remedial reading at the elementary level. The 42 lesson plans in this book are divided into four sections: (1) creative activities; (2) games; (3) reading comprehension; and (4) reading…

The paper addresses problems teachers of the severely hearing impaired have in being bimodal (speech plus signs) English role models as well as in using American Sign Language. The project described in this paper centers around inservice training and in-class demonstrations of the use of a modified form of Signed English to provide a visual…

The purpose of this curriculum guide is to define a portion of the common core of knowledge and skills that middle school students should know or be able to do to promote health and well-being. It identifies an appropriate score and sequence, and offers suggestions for teaching and learning. It is also intended as a tool for coordinating and…

Designed to be used in conjunction with the Alberta (Canada) Social Studies Program of Studies, this color coded resource manual provides practical suggestions for teachers. It is organized in five sections. The first section presents the goals and objectives of the program, sample models for problem solving and decision making, and an outline of…

This newsletter is for educators interested in developing lessons related to global climate change. The newsletter contains sample lessons, news items involving global climate change on an international scale, and background information on issues related to global climate change. (CW)

This instructor's manual was designed to help graduates of the California Bus Driver Instructor Course provide effective instruction to school bus driver trainees. It contains enough material for 20-30 hours of classroom training. The information is organized in 12 instructional units that cover the following topics: introduction to the course;…

Over an 8-month period, a preschool teacher's aide designed and implemented a practicum study intended to improve the social skills of preschoolers in a private day care center. Lesson plans for teaching seven social skills through problem solving were created. Skills were related to entering and exiting activities without disrupting them;…

The thinking and decision making of expert and novice teachers were studied during three stages of teacher decision making: (1) preactive or planning, (2) interactive or actual teaching, and (3) postactive evaluation and reflection. The novices were five student teachers and the experts were their five cooperating teachers. Differences found…