This book explores the question of how we know what we know. The articles, essays, pictures, and practical exercises focus on language, meaning, and the ways in which we communicate. The book is divided into six major divisions: the representative function of words and language; cultural attitudes, values, and assumptions inherent in any given…

Resulting from the efforts of teacher-coordinators in a 3-week workshop, this study guide was designed to help student-trainees adjust to the many factors of the world of work. Including material useful in a general related class, the study guide is arranged in the following 10 units: (1) Introduction To Cooperative Education, (2) Youth Clubs and…

The workbook contains materials developed for a workshop on an introduction to metric measure for elementary and junior high school teachers. The workshop was designed to provide the participants with a variety of metric measuring experiences. The activities are organized under six major topics: Linear measurement, weight, area, volume, capacity…

These booklets describe a self-help program for children at the elementary level to improve spelling ability. The first, a teacher's guide, provides a rationale for program implementation, information and suggestions for the teacher, a description of the lessons, and an outline of procedures. Appendixes list spelling words in the order of their…

This booklet is one of a set of eight designed to be used in a self-paced introductory chemistry course in conjunction with specified textbooks and computer-assisted instruction (CAI) modules. Each topic is introduced with a textbook reading assignment and additional readings are provided in the booklet. Also included are self-tests (and answers),…

This three phase library program was presented to some two hundred students enrolled in sections of an English composition course taught at the State University of New York College at Brockport. Offered each fall and spring semester since the spring of 1975, the library program has been incorporated into a nine module, self-guided course, taught…

The author describes four kinds of ancillary instructional materials and how they may be used in the business education classroom: practice sets for various business skills; programmed materials; single-station simulations (role playing); and full-scale simulations (model office or corporation). (MF)

Provides help in the day-to-day activities of the classroom. (Editor/RK)

This workbook is part of a series devoted to all areas of charter-school development. The third of five workbooks, it focuses on assessment and accountability and examines such issues as academic accountability, fiscal accountability, public/parental accountability, rule compliance, assessment and evaluation, financial management, developing a…

This workbook is part of a series devoted to all areas of charter-school development. Fourth in the series, this volume focuses on governance and management, with an emphasis on creating an organizational structure, establishing strong leadership, handling personnel issues, creating a board and board bylaws, managing growth, and dealing with…

This manual is intended as a do it yourself tool for helping organizations develop an approach that will enhance the quality of career counseling services. It is aimed at demystifying evaluation planning and presents a framework so that the evaluation process leads to continuous improvement in meeting client expectations. It also helps validate…

An experiment with 30 normal hearing college students and an experiment with 8 adults with cochlear implants evaluated the effectiveness of 2 types of anticipatory strategies to prepare for upcoming communication interactions: workbook activities and situation-specific lipreading practice. Subjects did not improve their performance on…

Reviews the NOTIS "Acquisition Self-Paced Study Guide," designed to teach the inexperienced user the basic features of the NOTIS acquisition module, with references to the "NOTIS Acquisition User Guide" for those who need further study. Contents of the self-paced guide are listed. (EA)