This booklet offers practical, easy-to-read suggestions for teachers, paraprofessionals, and parents to help them understand learning development and learning disabilities. The text outlines how the factors of heredity, maturation, and environment determine the degree of development an individual will achieve. The characteristics of children with…

The 6 resource units in the report are offered as instructional aids to teachers who work with migrant children. They are one of the key elements in the 1973 Migrant Teacher Institute's recommendations related to Individualizing Instruction in both reading and oral language. The units are organized for: (1) goals, (2) objectives, (3) motivation,…

This Spanish activity packet was designed to be used with the map study portion of each of twelve units in a second year course in Spanish. Each unit deals with a different Spanish-speaking country or place, such as Puerto Rico, Colombia, Venezuela, or Peru. Included here are worksheets, games, map outlines, crossword puzzles, skits, and cultural…

The modern school media center is a learning laboratory whose function is to enrich, to vitalize, and humanize the educational program. Relating the library program to today's educational goals, this book details the design of the media center and the role of the library media specialist in curriculum development and support. Chapters are devoted…

The basic resource materials in this document represent the cooperative efforts of graduate students enrolled in a 2-week field learning class at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh. These reports are an initial attempt to acquaint teachers with the many activities available to enrich the curriculum through the Outdoor Education Methods.…

This social studies curriculum bulletin is intended as a resource for teachers in grades 7-12. Social studies units are provided to teach students to cope with conflict, resolve issues, and bring about orderly social change. Seven problems are developed in detail: 1) the nature of democracy and role of the individual; 2) the challenge of urban…

In this Learning Activity Packet (LAP) students, mostly in small groups, analyze and compare a few major features of the Canadian and American governments. The LAP is divided into six learning objectives: 1) Both the United States and Canada are sovereign nations. What is sovereignty? What are nations?; 2) People throughout the world are governed…

Five Learning Activity Packets (LAPS) of Canadian-American materials were written in an attempt to upgrade and broaden the content and widen the international understanding of the elementary students of Maine by means of an individualized learning approach. This report describes the development of the project and the procedures followed in…

This volume is a collection of papers by participants in the 1970 Annual Meeting of the National Council for Geographic Education. The presentations are an amplification of the substantive material on Metropolitan America presented at the Detroit meeting by lecturers and field trip leaders and include newly developed teaching materials on the…

Designed as an elective for 10th through 12th grade students, this course encompasses immigration laws, present policy towards immigrants, the immigrant experience, and stresses the impact of immigration on the American culture. It is hoped that students, by seeing how the American character is so much a result of the immigration process, will…

This book has been written for the managers of small or medium sized companies who are faced with the problem of training their supervisors. Because the role of the supervisor has to be adapted to the situation in which he works, there cannot be a formula for his development and training. The process will be one of interchange between the training…

The original objective of the nursery school was that acting in cooperation with the home, it should develop children motorically, intellectually, emotionally, and socially. A comparison of objectives with effects reveals many to be non-existent. A 1966 study of nursery school effects on child development revealed the following breakdown: (1)…

The selections in the first of eight parts of this book provide an overall perspective as both a guide through the many articles that follow and a frame of reference to use in selecting teaching methods and materials. Most of the articles in Part Two advocate more rather than less experience-oriented reading and suggest methods that rely on…

This vocational education curriculum guide for educable mentally handicapped high school students, an outgrowth of a Mississippi state research project, was developed by a professor from the University of Southern Mississippi's Department of Special Education to be field-tested, revised, and expanded. Under the general competencies of psychomotor…

This publication is the completed portion of the high school segment of a comprehensive program for contemporary curriculum design in vocational education. The entire program embraces career development curriculum for Kindergarten through Grade 12 and utilizes extensive teacher-student participation in the development of instructional materials.…