A state/federal-funded project for the development of a coordinated curriculum development and management plan was carried out in Alabama in 1977-79 and was titled VO-ED COMP (Vocational Education Curriculum Operation--Management Plan). The proposed model consisted of twelve steps: (1) identification of needs, (2) instructional material priority…

The vocational supervisor has a key role in providing leadership and assistance in designing and improving curricula. The first step in accomplishing this task is to establish a definition of curriculum and its place in the educational process as it relates to the vocational education supervisor. (Curriculum is defined in this paper as an orderly…

A program for prospective elementary and secondary teachers emphasizing inquiry and problem solving techniques for use in the classroom is described. In the conceptual framework of this program, a situation is defined as a set of circumstances that teachers commonly encounter, and an issue is a theoretical, ethical, or methodological question. A…

The document--80% of which consists of appendixes--presents the final report of Project AID (Assistance for IEP Development), designed to assist schools in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in the initiation of the individualized education program (IEP) process for handicapped students. Intensive training programs were devised for personnel in each…

The author describes a Piaget based curriculum involving three main themes (classification, number measurement/space, and seriation) for young mentally retarded children. Students solve problems by doing something physically and mentally to the data, shuffling the facts about in their minds, so that they will come to a logical solution. Language…

A four year competency based education course for prospective physical education teachers is outlined. This course is divided into blocks and modules. The blocks consist of an arrangement of integrated learning experiences (combined from subjects conventionally separated) and directed toward specific student outcomes. The modules are units of a…

The document outlines a curriculum to train allied health professionals to work with families of developmentally disabled children. The curriculum contains six modules: an overview of developmental disabilities, social competency, independence training, nutrition education, health and safety, and human sexuality. Outlined for each module are its…

This conference was designed to explore the many issues concerned with quality and assessment at the master's level. Areas covered included needs and objectives, curriculum design and delivery, the meaning of quality, extant standards of quality for accreditation, definitions of assessment and methods of assessment for master's programs. Over two…

The rapid increase in the number and variety of master's degree programs offered across the United States has generated a great deal of concern within the academy regarding the quality of these programs. This conference was designed to explore the numerous issues of quality and assessment at the master's level from a variety of perspectives. This…

The relation of communicative skills to language syllabus planning is discussed. The most important part of the foreign language syllabus is course content. Foreign language teaching is primarily a matter of starting with the world of everyday knowledge which the learner already possesses. The foreign language syllabus should be designed to take…

A delineated philosophy, a written curriculum that reflects that philosophy, and a practiced program that reflects sex equality in its design as well as in its teacher attitudes and behaviors are all crucial ingredients for the development of a nonsexist physical education program. This paper provides concrete suggestions for the most direct…

This chapter is published as the introduction to a six-chapter interim report on an experimental program at Southern Illinois University. 275 graduating high school seniors in the bottom one-third of their class were identified as high potential low achievers and admitted into the University to participate as experimental and control subjects in a…

The first stage of this research project consisted of (1) an in-plant study of electro-mechanical technician operations to determine what skills and knowledge combinations are required, (2) in-depth interviews with administrative and supervisory personnel in 26 selected industrial organizations geographically distributed from New England to…

Assessed was the science achievement of five-and six-year-olds from different socioeconomic backgrounds. Classes included both a middle-class and lower-class pre-school class and a middle-class and a lower-class first grade class. Four additional classes, which were studying a local science curriculum, were chosen to match these same grade-level…

A model curriculum in social planning at the graduate level has been developed and tested as an area of study at Florida State University (FSU). The project, which lasted from early 1967 through the summer of 1968, involved (1) a workshop to review the educational needs that should be met by the proposed curriculum, (2) a second workshop that…