The board game and discussion provided in this pamphlet are designed to encourage awareness of future possibilities in the use of school media, to illustrate to students how transmission of news may change in the next ten years and how news and information exchanges might be possible between schools, and to encourage decision making and active…

The major goals of this communication textbook for hearing impaired students are to illustrate that public speaking is an activity for hearing impaired persons, to discuss public speaking techniques unique to hearing impaired communicators, and to facilitate comprehension of content by special learning devices. Separate chapters deal with public…

This is the third edition of a source directory of audiovisual materials for the education, training, and orientation of those in the criminal justice field. It is divided into five parts covering the courts, police techniques and training, prevention, prisons and rehabilitation/correction, and public education. Each entry includes a brief…

A large number of studies were reviewed to assess special education media and materials in terms of content and format, teacher training, information, and distribution needs. Among findings related to content and format were that there was a need for instructional games and other manipulative materials across a variety of handicapping conditions,…

Black, native, and Spanish speaking Americans are the three main minorities mostly considered in this selected bibliography. The fourth minority included herein is women. The concepts and philosophies of the "new public administration" are evident throughout this bibliography. The overall tenor is one of a humanistic approach to the practice of…

The National Education Association (NEA) in conjunction with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Library of Medicine, The Alaska Broadcasting Commission, and the Pacific PEACESAT Network, conducted four satellite experiments designed to improve professional communication among teachers. These programs were the Satellite…

The manual provides vocational and technical teachers with a review of the principles of learning which have application to their subject fields. Organized into three sections, the booklet offers: (1) a selected review of the literature related to how learning theory is applied to instruction; (2) principles of learning that have been identified…

The textbook is intended for use in college methods classes in business education and is a practical how-to-do-it guide containing many examples, illustrations, and techniques adapted from actual classroom observations and experience providing variety, socialization, discussion, and problem solving in the classroom. The text is based on the…

Intended as a tool for cosmetology teachers in Virginia public and private schools, the document is an instructional guide which offers 12 units of study, arranged in a three year course. Materials covered help prepare students for licensure in the State of Virginia and the guide is designed to cover the 1,500 hours required to be spent in the…

This guide describes where specific skills are emphasized in the three reading texts (published by Ginn, Holt, and Lyons and Carnhan) used in the intermediate grades in the Stoneham (Massachusetts) Public School System. The four major sections of the book are color-coded and include phonetic and structural analysis, vocabulary development, study…

These 21 self-assessment units are intended to accompany the seven teaching manuals in the series "New Approaches to Bilingual, Bicultural Education." The units consist of three self-administered evaluation instruments for each manual. They are designed both as a review and as a means of emphasizing the important concepts found in the…

A five-step process of selecting instructional strategies and media is provided in workbook form. Nine instructional strategies--four in the cognitive domain, three in the psychomotor domain, and two in the affective domain--are included, with two sample media prescriptions for each. A special flow chart table of contents shows the route through…

This source book, one part of a three-part NSTA series on energy-environment, is written for teachers who wish to incorporate material on the complex subject of energy into their teaching. This work is divided into two volumes, each with numerous tables and figures, along with appendices containing a glossary, mathematics primer, heat engine…

This technical report describes the operation of a field plotter and the kinds of geographic problems that the instrument can simulate. The field plotter is an easily operated analog computer which employs the electrically conductive sheet analog to simulate a wide range of physical and human-related spatial phenomena. The diffusion patterns of…

A theoretical analysis is presented of the problem of carrying out meaningful research into programmed language instruction. This is an attempt to develop a paradigm of research through the isolation of eight critical areas which must be taken into account before valid information can be obtained. The critical areas are: experimental design,…