Provides examples of senior management development courses that demonstrate ways in which technology is used to enhance management training; briefly discusses characteristics that distinguish the senior manager target population from other training populations; and describes computer hardware and software characteristics appropriate to training.…

Described is a preservice, social studies methods course. Two fundamental premises provide the foundation for the course: (1) students need to learn how to investigate and discuss societal issues, develop personal positions, and make decisions through democratic processes; (2) secondary education should relate to the nature of today's teenagers.…

Provides the rationale for and describes an interpersonal communication course designed for an individual returning to his or her native culture after completing an extended stay in a foreign culture. (PD)

The new arts education program at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, which stresses aesthetic education is described. Music, dance, drama, and the visual and literary arts are all included in the undergraduate program. (RM)

Describes a six-week writing elective during which students become more confident of their own writing and are free of teacher assessment/judgment. (HOD)

Describes a program at the University of Iowa called the Mass Communication Laboratory Sequence that offers students the opportunity to develop their abilities as professional communicators who can identify, research, and analyze problems that need communication strategies and media products for solutions. (HOD)

Describes a series of demonstrations and/or group activities used in a science methods course for prospective elementary school teachers. The topics include center of gravity, behavior of fluids; electricity and magnetism, the motion of objects, chemical reactions, and sound. (GS)

Describes an experimental biochemistry course designed to teach basic biochemical techniques using an unstudied enzyme as the experimental material. Explains the schedule of experiments designed for the course and lists the sources used. (GS)

Discusses a chemistry course, taught by the Keller Plan, that includes only students who have received a D or F in a previous chemistry course. (MLH)

The need for a new role for guidance in secondary schools is stressed. Guidance through the curriculum is presented as a means of stimulating cognitive, moral and ego development by secondary school pupils. An experimental curriculum in moral education is described and evaluated. (Editor)

The past history of toxicology courses, recent trends, departments or divisions of toxicology, undergraduate and graduate courses, and residency programs are described. The emphasis of clinical toxicology in the University of Tennessee program is discussed, along with the school's Drug and Toxicology Information Center. (LBH)

Described is a secondary level physics laboratory course designed to teach analytical thinking. Included is an analysis of a typical activity requiring the student to create and complete his own experiment. (SL)

Described is an undergraduate course of computer interfacing for scientists and engineers which incorporates the use of digital computers and associated interfacing elements with experiments and special projects performed in an on-line environment in the laboratory. (SL)

Describes the phased development of a program in Blood Transfusion Technology at Staten Island Community College of the City University of New York. Presents a detailed outline of the instructional content of the course. (SL)