The workshop participants who prepared this vocational report were working representatives of residential day schools for the deaf as well as integrated public school classes for deaf pupils. The age level toward which the materials were directed was determined at between 12 and 15 years of age, a period of transition for many deaf youth. The…

Content area teachers at the secondary level should teach students specific techniques for handling the reading materials in their disciplines. This paper points out the need for administrators to overcome attitudinal barriers of content teachers with regard to teaching reading skills and shows how compulsory attendance laws have led to the…

The report describes a career education project for grades K-12, developed for a rural school district in Maine, consisting of six elements: all subject matter tie-in, hands on experiences, resource persons, field trips, role playing, and career awareness. The chapter summarizing the project's results graphically demonstrates the various…

This document is a teachers' resource manual, grades Kindergarten through Twelve, for the promotion of students' facility in written composition in the context of a language-experience approach and through the use of diagnostic-prescriptive techniques derived from modern linguistic theory. The "Individualized Language Arts: Diagnosis,…

To ascertain whether Title III, 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, had affected the educational programs of the public schools in Mississippi, only that data which dealt directly with the implementation and operation of a project were utilized as sources of information. Included in the data sources were the initial proposals submitted for…

The Student National Education Association (Student NEA) has developed criteria for teacher preparation programs which it feels reinforce current standards, emphasize particular elements within the standards, or generate goals that require the attention or consideration of conditions viewed to be essential to students but not present in all…

This catalog was developed as a means of communicating innovative and imaginative programs and practices among the 28 community colleges in the state of Florida. Each institution submitted information on programs and practices which they have successfully used and which they feel might serve as a pattern for other institutions. Types of innovative…

Developed for the Carroll County Public Schools, this Learning Activity Package (LAP) for grade 8 offers a way to provide individualized learning about tradition and change in modern India. Learning activities are based on curriculum and audiovisual materials available in the Carroll County Schools. The unit focuses on a comparison of urban and…

The final report describes the middle school phase of a three phase program for training teachers at career education institutes at 11 cooperating college sites in New York State. Successive sections of the 25-page report describe the organization of the institutes: pre-institute period (program preparation); institute period (program…

This self-instructional learning packet is one part of a competency-guided program for instructional supervisor preparation developed by the Special Education Supervisor Training (SEST) project. Teaching the supervisor to determine the appropriateness of learning resources, including instructional and resource materials, is the goal of this…

This is the third in a series of reports which the PLATO Services Organization is publishing to keep users up to date on curricular developments on the PLATO system. Materials are listed here under 71 general subject matter areas. The report presents first a list of all subject areas and instructional levels in which PLATO lesson development is in…

Test-based funding (TBF) is the concept that allocations of educational funds from one political unit to another should be larger as the proportion of pupils in the receiving unit tho have low test scores is larger. The arguments offered in support of TBF are presented. The most serious acknowledged drawback to TBF is its potential disincentive…

This report, one of a series of twenty-one studies discussing the developmental history of a recent educational product, discusses a beginning reading program for kindergarten that is planned as part of a broader communication skills program for the elementary grades. The first section of the report describes the product, which consists of student…

A lead article, System-Based, Unified Social Sciences, written by Alfred Kuhn, examines the relationships of the social sciences to each other and to the entire field of science. The social sciences are related by an intrasystem and intersystem of analytic concepts that enable us to perceive similarities or patterns in both past and future events.…

This annotated bibliography lists approximately 70 books and articles dealing with the installation of educational programs and procedures, as well as a few additional publications dealing with information dissemination and public relations. Within each of the two sections, citations are listed alphabetically by author's name. (JG)