A computer-assisted, competency-based instructional model has been developed for a teacher education program. It is based on the assumptions that individuals should control their own lives and that technology should be used to expand the range of human choice. The model uses a systems approach to organize the human, curricular and environmental…

This document describes a new type of college; it is divided into seven chapters. Chapter I describes the Minnesota Metropolitan State College (MMSC) as a college with the entire metropolitan area as its campus, which admits students and awards them degrees on the basis of demonstrated competence and not on the basis of credit hours accumulated or…

This curriculum guide, developed for an ungraded language program at the secondary school level, allows for a steady progression of skills from unit to unit. Based on the audiolingual approach to language instruction, the guide is divided into four sections: (1) concepts to be taught, (2) references to instructional materials, (3) special…

The art and science of evaluating student learning is presented in detail to assist the classroom teacher in its application and the consequent improvement of both the teaching and learning processes. Part 1, in four sections (Education and Evaluation, Using Evaluation for Instructional Decisions, Evaluation Techniques for Cognitive and Affective…

Professionals as well as parents will find here an argument and model for implementing humanistic education in public schools at all levels. Steming from the Elementary School Teaching Project by the Ford Foundation which found that the student's feelings influence his ability to learn, this book attempts to develop a model which will utilize the…

This curriculum guide is designed to assist teachers in using such innovative techniques in the new social studies as concept teaching and inquiry with below average students. It is divided into two non-sequential semesters. Each of eleven units emphasize a single concept, in economics: 1) consumption, consumer purchasing, credit, deception,…

The course theme of this grade 3 social studies curriculum guide is Man and His Institutions. With a background of family and community study in grades 1 and 2, the purpose at this level is to analyze more institutions created by man to meet the growing complexities of society. Specific institutions selected for study are: 1) Government as an…

This course outline for grades 11 and 12 presents a topical approach to history instruction with emphasis on the post-World War II era. A statement of general objectives is given and these 22 relevant topics are suggested for study: 1) Radicalism in America, 2) Antiwar Movements, 3) Civil Liberties, 4) Politics of Religion, 5) Black Nationalism,…

This is a resource guide for one of a series of units prepared for grade 3 on the theme Communities Around the World. Objectives of this study of a South Pacific island community are explained relating to concepts of: 1) culture, 2) social organization, 3) social processes, 4) language and communication, 5) diveristy, 6) location, 7)…

This unit resource guide is one of a series prepared for grade 2 on the theme Families Around the World. For this study of the Israeli Kibbutz background material is presented for teacher describing: 1) site, 2) social structure including major values and family structure, 3) the functions of the family, and 4) the Kibbutz as a family. Objectives…

The plea of this bulletin, the second and full revision of The Problems Approach and the Social Studies copyrighted in 1955 and 1960, is for teachers to do more with the reflective method in their classrooms. It draws upon the latest and most pertinent insights distilled from research, theory, and practice associated with reflective thinking;…

This content analysis schedule for the bilingual program of the Marysville (California) Joint Unified School District presents information on the history, funding, and scope of the project. Included are sociolinguistic process variables such as the native and dominant languages of students and their interaction. Information is provided on staff…

This elementary school evaluation checklist covers organization and administration, curriculum and instruction, pupil services, staff personnel, instructional materials and equipment, school and community relations, evaluation and research, and physical facilities. "Yes-no," short "fill-in," multiple choice, and rating scale type questions are…

The proceedings of the University Affiliated Program's Second Special Interdisciplinary Seminar, concerning Piagetian theory, are presented. The opening session dealt with the question "Can Piaget's Theory Provide a Better Psychometry?", C. E. Meyers, speaker. Among the papers reprinted in the proceedings from the afternoon program of…

This publication, designed to facilitate input of information about innovative instructional materials and activities for k-12 teachers of government in Iowa, is an outgrowth of a March, 1972, conference for social studies specialists. A primary outcome of the conference was the development of an information retrieval system of locally designed…