This guidebook reviews the basic educational role of learning resources centers in elementary-secondary education, and outlines the facility requirements, material requirements, and functions of a basic resources center. The educational issues surrounding the development of resources centers are briefly addressed, including resource-based…

Data are presented from a survey conducted February 1977 of special education, kindergarten, and third and fifth grade teachers (103) who visited Forest Valley Outdoor Education Centre and their principals (28) concerning their perceptions of the degree to which outdoor experience at the Centre effected alterations in the regular classroom…

This curriculum guide was designed for use in postsecondary auto mechanics education programs in Georgia. Its intent is to develop entry level skills in the areas of knowledge, theoretical structure, tool usage, diagnostic ability, related supportive skills, and occupational survival skills. The first two sections of the guide explain the…

This program assessment instrument, developed for use by administrators, professional counseling staff members, and community representatives, is designed to assess guidance and counseling programs and to provide an informational basis for establishing goals. The instrument is presented as a useful tool for validating exemplary programs,…

This course contains materials for both classroom (and shop) instruction and independent study in the skills needed by construction electricians. It was adapted from military curriculum materials for use in vocational education. Students completing the course will be able to perform apprentice duties pertaining to the installation of overhead…

This guide proposes a comprehensive, sequential development of a kindergarten through twelfth grade dance education curriculum. A discussion of the role of dance in education is presented in the first section. The second section addresses the major aspects of the teaching and learning modes, of planning for learning, and of concepts, skills, and…

This study examined the perceptions of 105 teachers regarding research-on-teaching findings as a resource for instructional improvement. The teachers filled out a 40-item, Likert-scale questionnaire about their perceptions. Teachers value research findings that focus on classroom instruction and think that the findings have practical classroom…

Noting that educators have progressed considerably in the development of instructional and institutional strategies for nontraditional students, this paper provides a chart summarizing possible solutions to the various problems of such students in postsecondary education. Dealing with both affective and cognitive domains, the chart lists areas of…

Five Pennsylvania schools of education formed a committee for the purpose of sharing their experiences in incorporating mainstreaming concepts into teacher preparation programs. This report documents their most successful efforts in pre- and inservice training. The first section presents the background of the Deans' Projects and offers guidelines…

Produced in response to a school board's directive to develop a plan for implementing a standardized curriculum in the basic subjects on a district-wide basis, this resource guide is intended to provide teachers with ideas and materials that will assist them in teaching a course in functional basic English skills for eleventh grade students.…

Produced in response to a school board's directive to develop a plan for implementing a standardized curriculum in the basic subjects on a district-wide basis, this resource guide is intended to provide teachers with ideas and materials that will assist them in teaching a language arts basic skills course for middle school and junior high school…

Four questions were asked in this study: (1) Can educational opportunity be defined in terms of measurable alternatives? (2) Can the variables be grouped into separate meaningful factors? (3) What are the relationships among the factors? (4) Are the towns and school districts that are disadvantaged under one of the factors also disadvantaged under…

A guide to the holdings of the Southwest Bilingual Education Training Resource Center (SW-BETRC) located at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, this bibliography includes updated (60's and 70's) listings and annotated citations relevant to bilingual/bicultural education programs comprised of English, Spanish, and Native American language…

These eight papers on guidelines and standards for learning resources programs at the college and university level address such topics as technological communications services, instructional development, diffusion/adoption, production, telecommunication, utilization, facilities, and budgeting for learning resources programs. Many charts supplement…

This booklet describes some things learned by education directors from fifteen museums and performing arts organizations in Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts, as they participated in a training project to help them design pilot career education programs, in conjunction with a partner school, for K-12 students, using the resources of their…