Asserting that an effective rural social work curriculum begins with faculty commitment to the rural experience, this article describes the undergraduate curriculum at Lock Haven State College, Pennsylvania, a systems/planned change model, a problem-centered teaching approach, and the equasion of professionalism and activism in public social…

Described is a new BSCS curriculum project designed for emerging adolescents. The project is organized into a series of subject matter modules, each focused on a broad theme or idea concerned with science, psychology, or sociology. Each module is designed to accommodate students at different levels of intellectual development. (Author/MA)

This article argues that public education has a charted course that needs more specific articulation by use of state constitutional education clauses and statutes. It attempts to define what benefit students are entitled to obtain. It concludes that only after this question is resolved can public education properly deliver the benefit. (Author/JEL)

Explicitness in curriculum and purposefulness in teaching method not characteristically found in the ordinary school curriculum was the focus here as the characteristics of handicapped learners were evaluated. (Author/RK)

Describes the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) model used to design training to fit skills required on the job. Most vocational educators will recognize the components of this model which the Air Force implements on a vast scale and regular basis. They should be interested, too, in some of the resulting materials it makes available to civilian…

The design of language courses for college students with little previous study of languages is discussed. Language courses for students preparing for professions other than the teaching of a foreign language are outlined for each instructional level. Suggestions are made for increasing public awareness of foreign language study. (SW)

Seven basic activities performed by social service agency administrators are identified: planning, controlling, coordinating, directing, representing, staffing, and negotiating. Specific behavioral outcomes and objectives serving as a model for graduate student education and training are developed and recommendations for curriculum design are…

This paper describes a high school curriculum and an alternative role for the school counselor. The counselor becomes responsible for developing curricula and programs that aim to positively affect personal development of students. Prepared for the APA Division 17 Symposium on Developmental Counseling Psychology, Chicago, 1975. (Author)

The problem of moral education in the context of career preparation is discussed with reference to the Dickinson College program. Focus is on its career advising and curriculum elements and their relationship to student self-reflection and social analysis. (LBH)

Comparing separate subject approach with an integrated approach to social studies instruction, it was found that neither approach taught process skills or changed student attitude; that integrated classes used more evaluative questions and were less teacher dominated; and that educational quality is related more to teacher quality than to…

Discusses the importance of decision making in daily living and of teaching decision making skills in schools; outlines a decision making strategy; lists a sequence of questions as an example of a decision making approach; and presents a decision making map to help in the decision making process. (Author/JK)

Innovation should not be allowed to reduce academic standards and interfere with the correct evaluation of student performance. Traditional education along with limited, proven innovative concepts should yield far better results. (Author)

A model for second language teachers includes the definition of basic content for all students, diagnosis, and a series of reinforcement and enrichment activities. Variation of the basic model are applied to three levels of instruction. (Author/SW)

There is a role for the classroom teacher in teaching fire safety. Discusses the inadequacies of present fire prevention programs and provides ten specific steps teachers can take to avoid suffering and death from fire. (Author/RK)

Considers the difficulties of identifying gifted students, who have special talent in mathematics, how to develop their mathematical ability, and what courses to choose for their study. (RK)