This junior high teaching unit on the newspaper as career world is one in a series of career guidebooks developed by Project CHOICE (Children Have Options in Career Education) to provide the classroom teacher with a source of career-related activities linking classroom experiences with the world of work. The unit follows a typical format that…

This junior high teaching unit on professional sports is one in a series of career guidebooks developed by Project CHOICE (Children Have Options in Career Education) to provide the classroom teacher with a source of career-related activities linking classroom experiences with the world of work. The unit follows a typical format that includes the…

This junior high teaching unit, Photography: A Field of Many Choices, is one in a series of career guidebooks developed by Project CHOICE (Children Have Options in Career Education) to provide the classroom teacher with a source of career-related activities linking classroom experiences with the world of work. The unit follows a typical format…

This junior high teaching unit on career math is one in a series of career guidebooks developed by Project CHOICE (Children Have Options in Career Education) to provide the classroom teacher with a source of career-related activities linking classroom experiences with the world of work. The unit follows a typical format that includes the…

This junior high teaching unit on communications and media careers is one in a series of career guidebooks developed by Project CHOICE (Children Have Options in Career Education) to provide the classroom teacher with a source of career-related activities linking classroom experiences with the world of work. The unit follows a typical format that…

The first half of this paper reviews the school enrollment trend in the state of Wisconsin and discusses the implications of school closings. It offers planning suggestions to local districts in light of statewide declining enrollments. The second half of the paper--a review of recent literature related to "cutback management"--is…

This annotated bibliography, prepared by the Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA), provides lists of books which are primarily concerned with curriculum activities for day care, child development programs, preschools and nurseries. Lists of publications from associations with related useful materials are also included. (Author/MP)

A PROCEDURE WAS DEVELOPED WHEREBY EDUCATIONAL SPECIALISTS COULD PREPARE THE SPECIFICATIONS FOR MEDIA IN WHICH VARIOUS SEQUENCES OF INSTRUCTION WOULD BE PROGRAMED AND DEVELOPED. PROCEDURES WERE DEVELOPED AND TRIED FOR A SET OF BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVES FOR AN EXPERIMENTAL CURRICULUM IN SCIENCE INSTRUCTION. IT WAS POSSIBLE TO ILLUSTRATE AND IMPLEMENT…

This paper details plans for a one-and-one-half-day volunteer training workshop specifically designed to consider limitations such as manpower, money, time, and distance that are often encountered in the development of training events for rural areas. The paper begins by providing background on rural aging, and needs assessment information on the…

Questions and charts requiring both statistical data and evaluative answers comprise the major portion of this book on self-assessment of elementary schools. The areas assessed include school and community, philosophy and objectives, curriculum, pupil assessment, pupil support services, staff and administration, and school resources and…

Intended to aid teachers, librarians, and others in the selection of Spanish-language books for children in grades K-12, the annotated guide includes books by Hispanic authors which highlight the lifestyle, folklore, heroes, history, fiction, poetry, theatre, and classical literature of Hispanic cultures. Most books included in the guide have been…

This report describes the development and offering of a 4-day short course on the use of computer-based information resources in the college science classroom. The audience for the short course was university, junior college, and community college instructional personnel in the various science disciplines. Instructional units included a survey of…

Part I of this book discusses the basic instructional problems in teaching ethnic studies. Some of the major trends are reviewed and the need to expand the definition of ethnic studies and to include content about a range of ethnic groups is discussed. Part II is designed to help teachers acquire the content needed to teach about ethnic groups, to…

The purpose of this bibliography is to identify and to annotate the sources which can be helpful in presenting materials to deaf students and to reinforce learning in various vocational areas. Vocational resources for selected areas of vocational education were reviewed, evaluated, and annotated by two committee members in each of the following…

By way of introduction to this report on adult and community education in the Washington, D.C. schools, it was suggested that the improvement of adult education divisions in urban schools involves examining the interaction between community needs and the purposes of adult education, recognizing that such educational programs are interdependent…