This curriculum guide outlines a composition program for high school English and contains individual lesson plans divided by grade level from nine through twelve. The outline presents the specific areas of composition to be dealt with throughout the year, with individual lesson plans designed to aid the teacher in accomplishing stated objectives.…

This teacher guide contains 14 sample lesson plans based on issues faced throughout American history and still being headlined in today's newspaper. The lesson plans include exploration and National Pride, Jefferson and Hamilton, Checks and Balances, Supply and Demand, Presidential Impeachment, Voting Rights, Historical Analogies, Predictions and…

The last of seven modules on team teaching, this document deals with the prerequisites for good planning sessions. The major objectives are to acquaint teachers with a variety of team planning purposes for improving instruction, to show the relationship between the goals of team teaching and the planning completed at varying times of the year, to…

This reading program guide was developed as an inservice ESEA/Title III project in order to improve reading instruction in self-contained classrooms of grades 1 through 7 at the Louisa (Kentucky) Elementary School. Sequences of reading skills were divided into 12 primary and 16 intermediate levels, and students progressed from one level to another…

This book of mini-lessons is designed to aid substitute teachers teaching high school students on short notice. Fifty lessons are grouped into 10 subject areas: English, science, mathematics, history, government, art, music, foreign languages, sports, and achievers and achievements. These mini-lessons are designed to require no preparation or…

A result of a three-week reading institute at Northern Illinois University during the summer of 1974, this publication consists of papers focusing on various aspects of reading from a psycholinguistic perspective and strategy lessons to be used in the development of effective and efficient readers. The contents include five sections: "Moving to…

This book is designed to help teachers and specialists in movement education and gymnastics recognize and develop the natural interest and aptitude of children in activities such as swinging, leaping, jumping, climbing, sliding, and balancing, Part 1 identifies the core content of the body movement activity, enabling teachers to plan successful…

To assist in the continuing efforts to improve the safety of the motorist on the nation's highways and roads, this instructor's guide provides a standardized approach for providing training in emergency medical care for first responders to traffic accidents. The objective of the course is to provide training in all aspects of emergency medical…

This sourcebook is designed to assist school systems in developing a comprehensive curriculum for environmental education in grades K-12. A consideration of the need for environmental education is projected in Chapter 1 through a set of objectives together with an analysis indicating ethics and attitudes about environment to be the most…

This publication develops the six basic concepts in the Dade County Teacher Guide, "Drug Abuse Education." Fourteen lessons for independent study are presented with several lessons for each concept. The lessons are useful for students in the intermediate grades and upward, depending on specific needs and abilities. Each lesson starts with a…

Designed for resource teachers of gifted children, the resource guide explains the inquiry educational method and presents seven lesson plan designs. The inquiry learning process is said to encourage use of any communication style that relates to the individual and develops the following learning and thought processes: identification of study…

One of a series of guides for preschool teachers and aides, the book offers a Head Start curriculum guide to help achieve goals regarding social behavior, general attitudes, academic skills, health, and parent development. Information on curriculum is divided into areas of bloc time outline, classroom arrangement, building concepts (such as…

The proceedings are composed of nine papers that discuss different aspects of the rehabilitation teacher of the blind in his effort to teach the newly blinded homemaker. The introductory paper explains briefly the way in which different sources work together toward rehabilitating the blind homemaker. The following three papers then discuss, in…

Presented are 45 lesson plans for teaching expressive oral language to trainable mentally retarded students. Lessons cover the following major topics: self concept, shape and color, simple protective directions, names of furniture, clothing, and animals and their sounds. Each lesson plan includes a list of materials needed, how to arrange the…

A student learning to work on stage sets needs to become familiar with standard materials and equipment, the ways in which they operate, and ways to piece them together to create a set for a scene. This package contains the following three lessons for acquainting the learner with such information: resources and equipment, piecing together some…