This chapter on curriculum adaptation and development is taken from a guide to designing, implementing, and evaluating instruction and services for students with disabilities. It provides an overview of major curriculum options and systematic processes for selection, adaptation, and design of a curriculum for students with disabilities. Two major…

The Layers of Necessity Model developed by M. Tessmer and J. F. Wedman (1990 and following) proposes that designers create multiple layers of instructional design (ID) activities depending on the particularities of different design situations. To enrich the understanding of the model, a replication was conducted of a study conducted in 1992.…

This booklet contains guidelines for developing oral communication curricula in kindergarten through 12th grade. The booklet addresses the issue of whether students are being taught to communicate effectively, and discusses the following topics: enhancing the role of oral communication in elementary and secondary education; the objective,…

Issues and questions as discussion possibilities were listed. Some topics considered were the curriculum, the teacher, special education children, and the community school relationship. Finally, recommendations for art programs and special education students were made. (RK)

In perceiving a correlated arts program as the foundation for an art centered curriculum the author demonstrated a few examples of an interrelated arts approach. (Author/RK)

Article considered how our schools and universities can best cultivate the individual's deepest mental and spiritual qualities; how education can give him the creativity, the inner direction, the stability he needs in an era of dynamic and often violent change. (Author/RK)

This is another brief account of two of the seventeen NAIS member schools founded before 1776. (Editor/RK)

Author explained the plan for an elective senior course in a public high school in Columbia, Missouri. (Editor/RK)

A conceptual model for teaching and practicing social policy is presented, that distinguishes between social policy practice at macro- and micro-levels in order to sort out functional tasks, skills, and the consequent knowledge base. Suggestions are made regarding organizing social policy practice content in both the class and the field.…

Describes the concept of the Open University as this has been translated into actuality in Britain, discusses the science curriculum, identifies some weaknesses of the Open University, and points out parallel efforts in the United States. (PB)

The educational programs of 15 open-plan middle schools in Ohio were examined for evidence of innovative use of facilities, the teaching-learning environment, the psychosocial environment, and the curriculum. Little of an innovative nature was found; suggestions for fostering new ideas are offered. (JMB)

On the premise that corporate counsel must be an able diagnostician before he can focus on highly specialized and interrelated issues of business law, the author suggests an approach to corporate law curriculum in which the basic course balances the quality and quantity of material designed to create the needed sensitivity. (JT)

This essay assesses barriers and suggests understandings that can lead to innovative teaching of history. A core design is recommended which emphasizes the continuity and consequences of historical events, to the exclusion of rigid chronology. The community college is seen as a particularly appropriate institution for initiation of educational…

The student planned, student organized, and student evaluated educational psychology courses at Des Moines Community College proceed on democratic principles, with students voting on course content and design, the role of the instructor, course progress, and grading policy. (NHM)

The extended school year can play havoc with traditional music programs, the writer says, because the continuity that is essential is disrupted. He describes how to cope with this problem. (Editor)