Suggests using the current yearbook staff to train potential staffers on the basics of how to produce a yearbook. (RL)

Describes a course taught in 1980 to train college students to be intelligent critics of presidential primaries. Focused on primaries in New York and adjoining states. (PD)

Describes learning activities based on a balance of skills development with content in a high school social science department. The model for the program involves selecting the concept; choosing appropriate skills; identifying values and attitudes; and focusing on content that illustrates the concept, skills, and values. (Author/KC)

Describes the rationale and objectives which define the relationship between content and skills of the Civic Education Social Studies Curriculum. The curriculum is a project of the Carnegie-Mellon Education Center in cooperation with five Pittsburgh and two Bakersfield, California high schools. (KC)

Presents teaching suggestions for multifaith religious education in British schools, including teaching content and materials for various ages, chapel or assembly practices, and recommended teacher resources. Discusses the importance of the teacher's attitude. (SJL)

Discusses the scope and potential of an advanced course where the whole syllabus is built around the theme of French cooking. Shows how this central theme can be linked to French history, literature, geography, art and society. (MES)

Examines rating of 57 aims of a course on educational technology by ex-students and a group of colleagues not in the course. (RAO)

Reports on the development and measurement of a course to improve the communicative performance of tax enforcement officers. Includes an account of a unique content-analytic system for measuring communicative performance in situations considered flexibly formulaic transactions with objectives and prescribed strategies. (JMF)

Outlines ideas for teaching an introductory course in propaganda, including an historical perspective and review of the etymology of the word and an examination of those characteristics that separate propaganda from other communication arts. (JMF)

The author proposes an inservice teacher training course on creativity which emphasizes the historical and theoretical aspects of creativity; the environmental contributors to creativity (through biographical analysis of the lives of creative individuals); the identification of creative potential; and the application of creativity theories and…

Looks at an approach to history which challenges the views beginning college students generally hold about American or world history in order to help them develop habits of independent, self-motivated study. Looks at the problems students have with the approach and the ways teachers can help students adjust. (AYC)

The teaching of ethics or controversial issues in health education must meet two criteria: (1) The controversy must be addressed from various viewpoints; and (2) The issues must involve questions of right and wrong. Examples of values clarification activities are given. (JN)

Describes a miniunit on folklore, mythology, and the Bible designed to give education students a familiarity with literary knowledge that is basic to deeper, more enriching experiences with literature. Suggests that such a unit is essential to English teachers in graduate courses in literature study. (AEA)

Describes a program to teach third, fourth, and fifth graders to understand and criticize television programs and commercials. Indicates that children's viewing habits can be predicted by family background and that parents are influential models for the amount of viewing and attitudes toward television. (JMF)