Written to accompany the Adult Basic Education (ABE) Level III reading skills workbook of the PATHWAYS Curriculum, this teacher's guide contains brief explanations of the various skills presented in the workbook, suggested teaching strategies, answers to workbook exercises, and a list of available commercial materials that may be used to…

Developed to facilitate the teaching/learning process, this teacher's guide corresponds to the Adult Basic Education (ABE) Writing Skills Workbook Level II, and may be used as an answer book, as well as a reference manual. It contains concise explanations of the various skills presented, suggested teaching strategies, answers to workbook…

Papers on theory, technology, and public policy in bilingualism and bilingual education are collected in this volume designed to fill the need for systematic, high quality research related to bilingual populations in the United States. Part 1, "Language and Culture," contains five papers that discuss first and second language…

Summaries of current research on aspects of urban and minority education are compiled in these fact sheets. The first report provides guidelines for counseling in a multicultural educational setting, and outlines what counselors should know about and what they can do for students of culturally different backgrounds. The second report, which…

Designing or making changes in things students use or wear is the challenge of this Unified Sciences and Mathematics for Elementary Schools (USMES) unit. The challenge is general enough to apply to many problem-solving situations in mathematics, science, social science, and language arts at any elementary school level (grades 1-8). The Teacher…

This Unified Sciences and Mathematics for Elementary Schools (USMES) unit challenges students to promote changes that will make eating in school more enjoyable. The challenge is general enough to apply to many problem-solving situations in mathematics, science, social science, and language arts at any elementary school level (grades 1-8). The…

This curriculum guide for alternative energy courses is part of a series of curriculum guides for use in the industrial arts curriculum in Connecticut. The guide contains two parts. Part 1 provides the following overview: (1) objectives of alternative energy education, including suggestions for course levels, class sizes, teaching methods, and…

Proceedings of a 1980 workshop in Queensland, Australia, on evaluation in distance teaching are presented. Two focal areas were the assessment of students and evaluation of programs and courses. In addition to keynote and workshop papers, a variety of evaluation forms are presented. Among the papers and authors are: "The Setting of Tertiary…

The guide offers an integrated curriculum in computation, communication, and living/vocational skills for trainable mentally handicapped students. The introduction addresses such issues as problems of labeling and classification, academic versus living/vocational skills, placement procedures, early intervention, and parental involvement. General…

This paper contains a unit of six career awareness lessons for use by elementary guidance counselors with fourth grade students. Prepared to be used with fourth graders in a middle class small community elementary school in Wisconsin, the unit is based on developmental needs that have been identified for this age group. It is intended to be both…

Designed to provide consumer and homemaking education teachers with new and creative ideas for meeting the needs of male students, this guide consists of suggestions for developing a classroom environment and teaching strategies to involve males in home economics classes. The first part of the guide covers the following topics: classroom…

As part of the high school vocational industrial program in Manitoba, this course has been designed to provide students with the foundation for a career in commercial art. The program introduces and provides opportunities for student skill development in the theories and techniques of drawing, lettering, composition and design, graphics,…

This package consists of eight booklets dealing with competency-based vocational education (CBVE). The first booklet is a brochure outlining CBVE in North Dakota. The second booklet, an instructional unit written for vocational education teachers, deals with the characteristics and components of mastery learning and competency-based instruction.…

The teacher's guide accompanying the Pre-GED (General Educational Development) Level I writing skills student workbook of the PATHWAYS Curriculum deals with: (1) correct usage of the parts of speech, (2) sentence structure; (3) paragraph development; and (4) correct usage of punctuation and capitalization. The guide provides for each lesson in the…

The teacher's guide for the Pre-GED (General Educational Development) Level II writing skills student workbook of the PATHWAYS Curriculum provides a concise explanation of each skill presented in the 45 lessons, suggested teaching strategies, answers to the exercises, and a list of available commercial materials that may be used to supplement the…