Bridge-to-Reading is a comprehensive, year-long reading readiness curriculum for use with 2 1/2 -- 6-year-old children. It teaches readiness skills through other subjects that are appropriate for young children. A major objective of the curriculum is to establish a positive motivational framework for reading instruction, based on early learning…

"Science" is the fifth manual in the Bridge-to-Reading series, a comprehensive, year-long reading readiness curriculum for use with 2 1/2 -- 6-year-old children. Developed to help teachers and child caregivers, the curriculum teaches readiness skills through other subjects that are appropriate for young children. A major objective of the…

Bridge-to-Reading is a comprehensive, easy-to-implement readiness curriculum (for ages 2 1/2 -- 6) based on the premise that young children learn language and prereading skills most easily by "doing" and then learning to talk, write, and read about their own experiences. Each section in the series is presented in a separate notebook containing…

This guide, written to provide teachers with alternative methods and materials for individualizing elementary language arts, contains six chapters. It also includes several diagrams analyzing instructional variables in a manner that provides teachers with alternatives for classroom instruction. The chapters are "Options in Program…

Some on-going operational details of the Computer Aids to Teaching Project are cited, followed by a description of how individuals at separate locations can hold computerized conferences by utilizing remote terminals and a time-sharing computer as communications devices. Descriptions of two courses offered at Northwestern University, one treating…

Curriculum change and the dynamics of this change were explored by means of a case study of secondary social studies, science, and vocational education curriculums in Gary, Indiana, between 1940 and 1970. The time period is characterized by both unprecedented effort to produce change and slow change in the schools. The study asked how this could…

This publication contains approximately 275 brief abstracted descriptions of ongoing instructional programs in Pennsylvania public schools. Some of the program activities include art, basic skills, business, compensatory education, computers, developmental guidance, ecology, English, languages, guidance, humanities, industrial art, math, science,…

The purpose of this volume is to provide educators, research workers, and others interested in career education with a catalog of ideas useful in promoting career development. This second edition of the bibliography identifies about 500 publications, reports, audio, video and manipulative materials available for purchase from commercial suppliers…

This survey synthesizes and analyzes the book resources and book requirements of Brazil, with particular reference to the educational scene, in terms of local production and distribution resources and capabilities. Information on the geography, political establishment, economy, and educational system of Brazil is presented in the introductory…

With an emphasis on the role of local school administrators, this study focused on a change model for occupational education programs involving: (1) motivation, (2) structure and authority, (3) goal development, (4) resources, (5) mobilization, and (6) outcomes. The study, based on interviews with 23 public school superintendents, revealed that…

The staff of Project NECESSITIES conducted 2 workshops for educators concerned with curriculum for American Indian (including Eskimo) students. The purpose of these sessions was to familiarize participants with techniques pertinent to development of curriculum for Indian students at both the elementary and secondary school levels. The practica…

Part III, Volume V, Part A of Project NECESSITIES consists of 6 units intended for 2nd-grade American Indian (including Eskimo) children. Activities include music, pantomime, and drama to allow the student and teacher to develop their own classroom version of the story of creation so that the student learns the difference between fact and truth.…

The motive power in Algeria's national educational system has been and still remains the ideological force of the Algerian revolution. After independence was won, a dramatic increase in school enrollments (resulting from decentralization) intensified the need for more teachers, better facilities and materials, new curricula, oriented to national…

An index provides media staff, library personnel, and educators with a bibliographic guide to commercially produced educational audio tapes. This annotated computerized data base cites over 18,000 titles, filed under approximately 200 curriculum oriented subject and category headings. The index is divided into three principal sections: 1) subject…

This volume presents annotations of resources on performance-based teacher education. The materials, produced after 1967, include films, slide/tapes, modules, programmed texts, and multimedia kits for training pre- and in-service educational personnel. The materials are indexed according to both competency categories and key words, descriptions,…