This interdisciplinary series of five environmental education units is designed for teacher use at the middle school level. The two crossover units are designed to span a period of six to eight weeks at the beginning of the eighth grade. Each unit is developed around several organizing ideas or concepts; objectives, activities and strategies,…

The summer program for junior high and intermediate school pupils in 1969, supported by the State Urban Education Aid Program in New York, offered a six-week remediation and enrichment program for public and non-public school pupils. The program included an Academy in the Creative Arts, an Institute in Mathematics and Science, a school for the…

Five papers comprising the monograph describe a nonoral communication program which evolved from the clinical experiences of speech pathologists and physical therapists with severely dysarthric, physically handicapped children in a hospital school. Explicated are such aspects of nonoral communication as oral speech dysfunction systems of nonoral…

The guide for new parents of infants with Down's Syndrome contains 11 entries by parents, pediatricians, and educators. The following topics are addressed: typical initial parental reactions; the causes and effects of Down's Syndrome; reactions of 18 pairs of parents initially and after at least 1 year of living with their child; guidelines on…

The developmental curriculum of the Parent-Child Early Education Saturday School for 4-year-olds is presented, and the specific skill competencies and curriculum activities used in the program are described under three major behavioral categories: language skills, gross and fine motor coordination, and math and science concepts. (Some attention is…

This manual describes an early childhood education program for 200 children, ages 4 and 5, based on community needs and designed to prepare children for entry into a non-graded elementary instructional program. Following an overview of the program and a rationale for preschool education, various aspects of the preschool operations are reviewed,…

This monograph describes the curriculum of the child development center of the Early Childhood-Special Education Teacher Preparation Program. The center provides a model preschool program in which teacher trainees work with children, ages 2-6, (several of whom have developmental deficiencies). The curriculum is designed to help teacher trainees…

This module is designed to prepare teachers to facilitate the phonological aspects of language development. Section 1 provides detailed basic background information on phonology, including: (1) definition of three aspects of the phonological system (classification, intonation, and stress) with an ontogeny for each; (2) brief discussions of…

This report summarizes innovations being developed in seven special adult basic education (ABE) projects: the Washington, D.C. ABE Demonstration Center; Opportunities Industrialization Center pupil recruitment and Adult Armchair Education projects in Philadelphia; Laborers' International Union participation in ABE in Columbus, Ohio; Southwest…

Seven volumes make up the Southeastern Education Laboratory's SEL Pathway Series. SEL suggests that before using any of the series that Volume 1, "Comprehensive Planning Guide," be used to assist the local school planner in assessing needs and systematically planning strategies to meet these needs. "A Communication Skills Program" is illustrative…

In a period of expanding enrollments and shrinking budgets, this article criticizes the curriculum design of college English programs and current teaching practices. The author feels that fragmentation of the curriculum into highly specialized areas of study has prevented the development of new courses in interdisciplinary studies, film criticism,…

Some objectives of this non-graded elective English program are to individualize language arts instruction, to deepen student interest in and appreciation of literature, to provide more meaningful sequences of courses, and to capitalize on the teaching strengths of the English faculty. Courses are divided into three areas--composition and English…

This report familiarizes educators with the general nature of various electronic teaching systems. The material is organized into major chapters on audio equipment, visual display equipment, television teaching systems, computer assisted instruction, and student response systems. Other chapters describe several systems and approximate equipment…

Seventeen reprinted essays and an unpublished one are contained in this collection and organized under five headings: History of Ideas, Approaches to Medieval Literature, Chaucer and Fourteenth-Century English Literature, Language and Linguistics, and Essay-Reviews. Topics discussed include the origin of the concept of the Seven Cardinal Sins;…

Ten papers assess 3 years of the La Mancha Project whose basic objectives are to devise methods and materials to help students write more effectively, to coordinate the students' writing experiences in English with their other academic classes and life outside school, to provide an in-service training program for secondary school teachers on the…