A GUIDE WAS PREPARED FOR STUDENTS IN THE EIGHTH-GRADE LANGUAGE CURRICULUM. THE GUIDE CONTAINED INSTRUCTIONS AND EXERCISES APPROPRIATE FOR UNITS ON SOUNDS OF ENGLISH AND WRITING SYSTEMS. BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON ENGLISH SOUNDS (CONSONANT AND VOWEL PHONEMES) WAS PRESENTED. THE UNIT ON WRITING SYSTEMS WAS CONCERNED WITH (1) RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN…

A REFERENCE MANUAL ON GRAMMAR USAGE WAS PREPARED FOR STUDENT USE IN SEVENTH- AND EIGHTH-GRADE LANGUAGE CURRICULUMS. THE MANUAL WAS CONCERNED WITH APPROXIMATELY 100 GRAMMAR USAGE ITEMS WHICH COULD BE PROFITABLY TREATED IN THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADES. AN ACCOMPANYING MANUAL WAS PREPARED FOR USE BY TEACHERS (ED 010 160). (WN)

A CURRICULUM GUIDE WAS PREPARED FOR A DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM (ED 010 332) WITH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO WERE CONSIDERED POTENTIAL DROPOUTS. SELECTION WAS ON THE BASES OF (1) INTELLIGENCE, (2) READING ACHIEVEMENT, (3) GENERAL ACHIEVEMENT, (4) SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, AND (5) SCHOOL ADJUSTMENT. MAJOR EMPHASIS WAS ON PROVIDING THE STUDENTS WITH A SENSE…

BASING ITS WORK ON INVESTIGATION OF SCHOOL PRACTICES AND ANALYSIS OF THE WRITING PROCESS OF CHILDREN, THE NORTHWESTERN CURRICULUM STUDY CENTER DEVELOPED A CURRICULUM IN COMPOSITION FOR THE LOWER SECONDARY GRADES. THE LESSONS DEVELOPED FOR THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADES HAD THEIR BASIS IN PESTALOZZIAN OBJECT TEACHING WHICH STRESSES SPECIFICITY AND…

Practicum objectives were to: select 3 outdoor campsites, each with the facilities to accommodate 120 students per week and to provide an environment to implement outdoor education concepts (knowledge and skills for intelligent environmental decision making and positive attitudes toward self, others, and the environment); prepare and disseminate…

This guide is designed to provide and/or improve instruction for occupational training in the area of snowmobile repair, and includes eight areas. Each area consists of one or more units of instruction, with each instructional unit including some or all of the following basic components: Performance objectives, suggested activities for teacher and…

Designed to assist teachers in improving instruction in agriculture and related areas, this curriculum guide is written in terms of student performance using measurable objectives, and is a suggested method of group instruction for students who are employed in an agribusiness program. The material is intended to cover those items which every…

This collection of references is designed to present an outline of the field of guidance, counseling, and personnel work. Its primary purpose is to offer a structure around which a student can build his knowledge. The topics within each area offer enough detail for intensive reading or discussions. For convenience, fourteen basic references are…

The article describes and analyzes the physical, attitudinal, and behavioral barriers that deny severely retarded students equal access to vocational education, and discusses as a solution the prevocational training of such students in those skills and behaviors necessary for entrance into a vocational training program. (DLS)

The article describes a curriculum model for the severely handicapped which utilizes the traditional notions of content, scope, and sequence and relates these concepts to the learning and generalization processes. (DLS)

Guidelines for planning, organizing, developing, and producing a curriculum guide for a vocational course are presented, beginning with the decision to prepare a curriculum guide through the statement of purpose, scope of the course, and content. Detailed instructions for a recommended format, printing, and binding are included. (MF)

The author describes a series of ten television programs on basic musical education which are scheduled to be aired over Public Broadcasting Stations for classroom use in the intermediate grades throughout the United States. A curriculum guide is also available through the Government Printing Office. (BM)

A thorough revision of present syllabus-design practices is necessary to achieve the goal of enabling the learner to use the target language with relative fluency in simulated speech transactions. Four new orientations are suggested that lead more directly to language use than do monolithic and paradigm-oriented linguistic features. (Author/RM)

Describes the practical problems encountered by one group of people, in one institution, when different disciplines were combined in the production of a course about the theory of curriculum design. (Author/RK)

This paper contains part of the text of an address given at the sixth Biennial Conference of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers concerning current developments in the secondary school mathematics area in Australia. A list of strong high school mathematics program syllabi is also given. (MN)