Describes Notre Dame High School's (California) integrated bioethics course, which contains units on basic concepts of goals, rights, and duty ethics; reproductive technologies; genetic technologies; death and dying; behavior modification; and experiments with human subjects. Provides a bibliography of student and teacher materials. (DMM)

Discusses goals of teaching French as a foreign language as set forth in the "Recommended Statement of 16+ National Criteria for French" and compares them to the goals of Ontario's bilingual immersion program. Discusses the feasibility of accomplishing these goals within the framework of the compulsory education system in Great Britain.…

Upon rejecting traditional world history curricula, which include all chronological developments from cave dweller to 20th century, a course is suggested to study significant patterns of government, economics, revolution, war, major religions, geography, scientific advancement, education, and rise and fall of civilizations. (Author/AV)

Presented are justifications for including optics in the science curriculum, an outline of optics instruction as presently presented in English secondary schools, and a review of probable future trends in optics instruction. (SL)

Nine objectives are outlined that have either been reported on by teachers in the field or that seem to be pertinent to death education. Focus is on the premise that the format and content of courses follow the goals selected. Questions of who should teach, when and what format are discussed. (Author/LBH)

Today, school principals are asked to lead in a new world marked by unprecedented responsibilities, challenges, and managerial opportunities. Are principal preparation programs equipping their charges for this new role? The authors examined the content of instruction at a stratified sample of the nation's principal preparation programs, including…

Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) offers an annual 2-week intensive Summer Faculty Writing Forum. This Forum accepts up to 15 faculty each year from schools and disciplines across the campus. These faculty members, more used to the role of writing to demonstrate learning, investigate the capacity of writing to…

This study investigated whether stating the instructional objectives at the beginning of instruction would help students structure their own learning. Data came from 24 lessons taught by 13 secondary school teachers to 684 urban and rural adolescent students. Teachers taught different subject lessons in different classes. Students were exposed to…

The first step in a multi-stage approach to assessment of the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Art at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, this study assessed the department's introductory course. Data came from cognitive pre/post tests, self reports, and peer evaluations. Results indicated that: (1) students scored higher on…

A justification for a strategy and the whole strategy then described and illustrated as it was applied to the development of a course for the Royal Australian Navy. (Author)

The dean of continuing education at the Communiity College of Beaver County (Pennsylvania) defines community services as one portion of continuing education - and the program in Beaver County. (Editor)

The author provides a description of industrial training for 1974 in terms of training techniques, course development, and facilities for training. That description is presented in terms of a letter written in 1974, placed in a time capsule, and reviewed in the year 2024. (KP)

Questions whether the stated attitudinal aims in secondary science subjects actually reflect the attitudes that scientists develop and profess. In particular, objectivity, open-mindedness, and the desirability of possessing "scientic" attitudes are seriously questioned. (JR)

Discusses self-paced learning techniques for teaching a senior elective course in compressible flow, involving informing the course objectives, the material to be covered, the minimum achievement standards, and the grading system. Included are tables of cumulative test averages and a chart illustrating the approach to self-paced study. (CC)