This handbook was designed to help teachers promote parent-home involvement in children's learning by providing them with specific techniques and materials to use in working with parents. The handbook begins with a general article discussing why parent-home involvement is important in the educational process and goes on to present 10 tips for…

Eighty-five students in education courses at the University of Indiana participated in a study to determine the potential effects of instructional games in changing players' attitudes. The game selected was intended to make players more positive in their attitude toward the use of instructional games. Each player (1) was asked to predict the…

After a brief introduction to the educational benefits of simulation/games, the use of two games in two undergraduate political science courses is described. For a game to be valuable from an educational point of view, it must be analytic in nature and similar in structural elements to those of the real world. The simulation experience motivates…

The second supplement to the new (1972) edition of the Survey of Research in Audiovisual Aids carried out in Great Britain covers the year 1974. Ten separate sections cover the areas of projected media, non-projected media, sound media, radio, moving pictures, television, teaching machines and programed learning, computer-assisted instruction,…

Designed for instruction at the secondary level, this curriculum guide focuses on simulated classroom experiences in prejudice and minority race relations and content materials relative to Northeast Woodland American Indian history and culture. Knowledge of the following are cited as major unit objectives: (1) Indian cultural contributions; (2)…

This workbook is intended as an aid to the teacher of a bilingual/bicultural Spanish-English program in the primary grades. It contains modified crossword puzzles in Spanish, designed to accompany the Spanish Curricula Development Center Southwest Edition readers, Units 1-3, Kits 2-9. The puzzles are intended to aid in reinforcing reading words…

The subjects for this study were 128 girls and 156 boys in public schools. Teachers were randomly assigned to one of three treatments designated active games, passive games, and traditional activities. Subjects were selected as having limited sight vocabularies based on the results of the Sight Vocabulary Recognition Test pretest. Data were…

This curriculum guide offers materials designed to acquaint students with aspects of Hispanic culture and language. Situations, pattern practices, visual aids, dialogues, games, literary passages, and authentic media advertisements, all closely revolving around the concept of "El Dinero" (Money), are employed to this end. Suggestions for…

The comic book is discussed as an aid to improving English conversational ability in preadolescents and teenagers. A description of some of the characteristics of conversational English, such as contractions, stereotyped phrases, and conversational fillers, should precede the presentation of data from comic books. Classroom techniques suggested…

This report describes the approach to teaching German used at Rose Hill Junior High School in Redmond, Washington. The program provides for individualized instruction, and no major emphasis is put on any basic textbook. The program's development is summarized, followed by detailed discussion of the following: (1) the first phase of implementation,…

Designed as an abridged reference tool for small rural school teachers and administrators, this report on the final Oregon Small Schools Program (OSSP) summer institute (a Title III Elementary Secondary Education Act project in operation 1966-1974) is divided into two sections. Three major presentations constitute Part 1. These include: (1) a…

This workbook for children in the primary grades contains three sections of rhymes and activities about family members; the community's houses, shops and streets; and the schoolroom and its equipment. An individual activity accompanies each rhyme. The workbook is designed to strengthen the child's knowledge of his environment and his language by…

Five pre-lessons provide a set of brief daily activities for children encountering school, and perhaps a teacher who speaks standard English, for the first time. These activities should increase the likelihood that the children will feel comfortable, and will respond vocally and enthusiastically during subsequent systematic instruction in standard…

Description of a game involving linguistic recognition and practice with numbers ranging from one through 20 points out the value of cognition and oral practice in language acquisition. Variations of the game focusing on simple multiplication and addition are also examined. (RL)

The purpose of this curriculum guide is to help the tenth grade teacher in his endeavor to fulfill his teaching responsibilities. Space is provided for teachers' additions, deletions, notes, and criticisms, which will be useful when the guide is revised. The guide is arranged in vertical columns relating the Spanish curriculum concepts to:…