An interdisciplinary career education program called Career Education Activity Kits (CEAK) for grades 5-6 are presented in the document. The materials in the teacher's handbook may be used as an aid to achieve pre-established instructional outcomes. Fourteen career generalizations were utilized to develop the CEAK materials. Each generalization…

The curriculum guide contains units of study about careers appropriate for high school level students in grades 9 and 10. The units focus on the four areas of mathematics, science, social studies, and language arts. The document contains a discussion of fundamental cognitive skills and a rationale for each. The format for presenting each goal of…

The learning experiences in the teacher's guide are designed to aid primary students in developing an awareness of the personal and social value of work and of the variety of tree-related occupations. The relationship between trees and the people who work with them is presented in a manner that encourages an understanding of both the value of…

During fiscal year 1975, the Florida Migratory Child Compensatory Program (FMCCP) served 19,455 migrant children through its Early Childhood Learning Program, Language Arts Tutorial Program, and Learn and Earn Program. The Early Childhood Learning Program provided 6,361 three, four, and five year olds with physical and dental examinations,…

Culture is the main subject of this student material for a quarter or one-semester course on a comparative study of Mexico and the United States. The ongoing processes of continuity and change in culture and their relationship are emphasized. The first chapter is devoted to the concept of culture, the total way of life of a people from language…

Project COULD (Career Orientation Utilizing Language Development) was developed as a means of building skills, knowledges, and attitudes on elementary children's previously acquired backgrounds. Children learn to speak the grammar and vocabulary characteristic of the language heard most frequently at home and in the immediate environment. A series…

This state of the art review and research strategy paper identifies some of the educational, political and social issues involved in bilingual-bicultural (bl/bc) education for Spanish speaking/surnamed (ss/s) children and makes recommendations for more refined research. Aspects of bl/bc education for ss/s children included in the paper are: (1)…

This publication reports on research which has investigated phoneme acquisition and carry-over in a programmatic fashion. This research began with investigations of the effect of an extension of stimulus control of new phoneme responses through a systematic operant procedure. After quantifying the effect of such procedures in terms of stimulus…

This workbook was designed to help parents of preschool children take an active role in the education and guidance of their children, particularly in the area of language and vocabulary, social development, and movement. Included are all the sections from the book "Discovering How Children Learn" in addition to parent and child…

To determine the effects of videorecording experience on the communication process in community college sophomore nursing students, 20 students were randomly assigned to two groups. One group received 90-minute sessions of videorecording/feedback experience twice weekly for five weeks. The control group was not exposed to the experimental…

Initial proposals for creating an education program for the European Community are presented in this report. These proposals are limited to broad areas which the Commission has delineated in this first program for a council to work with. The main themes identified as starting points are (1) mobility in education, including the mobility of…

Performance models for re-educating certified urban teachers in multicultural dimensions were developed based upon: (1) the concept that colleges and instructors should adapt to the students; (2) critiques of the whole system of education given by multi-ethnic students of the five Consortium colleges; and, (3) interviews with talented scholars…

This report, prepared by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, provides philosophical and psychological background and teaching guidelines for the kindergarten classroom. The guide is divided into six sections which encompass different aspects of kindergarten education: (1) the philosophy and psychology of kindergarten education, and the roles…

The 12-month Federally funded project at the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut was designed to prepare adult basic education (ABE) administrators and teachers (serving urban Puerto Ricans, blacks, and whites) to become teacher trainers. Focus was on building a multi-regional teacher capability in ABE through teacher training models. Phase one…

A series of experiments to discover the optimal learning situation were conducted using computer-assisted instruction based on a mathematical model. The instructional systems were adaptive in that the sequence of instruction varied according to a given student's performance history, and the program was organized to modify itself automatically as…