North Dakota Occupational Models have been developed from the practices of actual offices and businesses in the State, duplicating real jobs and work materials and complete with pressure and decision-making activities, to provide realistic work experiences for secondary students who have completed the basic skills courses in office education. A…

The challenge confronting creative educators concerned with using the correctional experience in positive ways is to structure an educational delivery system which takes into account the wide range of individual differences among people whose only common denominator is "serving time." Inherent is the problem of staff and public resistance to…

This book of readings in educational psychology for teachers contains selections which are both historical and technological. More emphasis is placed on general information and direct educational applications than on theoretical and experimental education psychology, and some of the articles have been abridged. Topics covered include teacher…

Eight social studies programs in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, New York, and Virginia are described which offer high school students an opportunity to study the history of the United states using innovative, nontraditional approaches. The content of the eight courses is outlined and discussed in terms of objectives, teacher rationale in designing…

The guide, designed for sixth, seventh, or eighth grade teachers and students, presents six science instructional units for career exploration related to the occupational clusters manufacturing (2), communication, transportation, health and agribusiness. The units deal specifically with: the scientific method for research, using the scientific…

Volume 1 of the two-volume textbook on nursing skills presents instructional materials (units 1-20) based on 184 activities designated by the Allied Health Professions Projects national survey as those which are accomplished by all levels of nursing. Unit titles are: (1) the health worker and the law; (2) introduction to ethics in the healing…

Volume 2 of the two-volume textbook on nursing skills presents instructional materials (units 21-36) on nursing skills based on 184 activities designated by the Allied Health Professions Projects national survey as those which are accomplished by all levels of nursing. Unit titles are: (21) urine elimination; (22) bowel elimination; (23)…

This paper discusses a series of oral proficiency tests in six languages developed under the auspices of the Center for Applied Linguistics and the Seattle Public Schools District. The prototype is an English test, totally oral, for use in grades K-4, designed to: (a) determine the child's ability to (1) understand and produce the distinctive…

Guidelines for implementing an exploratory career education curriculum in agribusiness and natural resources for Rhode Island students in grades 7-9 are presented. Section 1 presents a rationale, general objectives, suggestions for teacher preparation, explanation and scoring of interest inventory and achievement test, and resource list…

The document is an appendix to the final report of an analysis of selected issues in adult education; it comprises an annotated bibliography and a selective bibliography of references consulted in the study. Abstracted are 100 references that mention roles, policies, and/or strategies for Federal involvement in adult education. References directly…

This publication presents annotated lists of teaching resources related to the United States Bicentennial. Included are references to activity and arts and crafts books, annotated bibliographies, children's books, songs, cookbooks, background reading lists, curriculum guides, unpublished documents included in the Educational Resource Information…

The 16 conference papers are: Continuing Education History of Pennsylvania State University Associate Degree Graduates; A Mere Matter of Words (defining adult education); History of Adult and Continuing Education in Vocational Education; Adult and Continuing Vocational Education: Past, Present, and Future; Lifelong Learning: A Systematic Approach…

The guide to career education is designed to supplement an existing curriculum at the third and fourth grade level; it suggests and outlines a developmental program of learning activities and resource materials which may be integrated with the teaching of academic subject areas. The suggested activities and materials are designed to (1) promote…

The purpose of the units in the guide is to supplement, enrich, and reinforce the usual classroom instruction in seventh through ninth grade mathematics, and at the same time, introduce career education. The 14 resource units are not designed to be the primary teaching device for the math topics with which they deal. Each unit emphasizes an…

The instructor's guide to the course designed to acquaint supervisors, with such behavioral science theories as motivation, leadership, group dynamics, and change, stresses student participation through group discussion, role-playing, incident-process case discussion, and management simulation or games. The course is organized around four themes…