The humanities course described in this paper encourages high school students to examine alternatives for the future and to make decisions on the basis of the most desirable outcomes. Classroom instructional materials include films, sound and slide sets, film strips, tape recorders, a record player, and a television. Students participate in…

This monograph is a description of a training course for human services personnel which covers a major function of comprehensive manpower development programs. It surveys several key issues in providing human services to the public: the legal, historical and social forces underlying human services; management concepts for program administration…

The document provides teaching guidelines and information on advance elective courses in a studio art program for grades 10, 11, and 12. The courses are presented in four sections: (1) studio in advertising design--advertising and production, lettering, illustrating, and color reproduction; (2) studio in fashion design and illustration--elements…

This paper describes how a five-day supervisor training program was designed and offered cooperatively for the personnel department of a city of 100,000 population. It includes the content and related learning experiences which were developed for the training and an evaluation of the results. The course covers basic supervision skills for newly…

The document, second of two volumes, presents sewing instructional materials developed in the third year of the project aimed at disadvantaged Samoans living in Hawaii, 20 years of age or older, unemployed or underemployed, and unable to effectively compete for or maintain jobs. Instructional materials are presented in two sets, with the first a…

This document is a report on the first phase of an interdisciplinary K-12 curriculum development for Utica, New York schools. Project SEARCH is a unified approach to a humanistic curriculum which focuses on man and his relation to others and the world. The curriculum model contains 10 parts which relate man to his self-image, family, community,…

An environmental education program that combines the social studies curriculum, community interaction, and the study of environment is described. Since man and nature live in a complex, continuous, and inseparable partnership, every environmental program should stress the interrelationships that exist between man and nature. Several ways by which…

This language arts minicourse guide for Lampeter-Strasburg (Pennsylvania) High School contains a topical outline for a course on technical and business writing. The guide includes a list of five course objectives; an outline of the sequence of instruction in the course; a description of the content, concepts, and writing exercises covered by the…

This Home Economics Educations Package (HEEP) is written to be used as a consumer education course on the selection of window treatments. The objective of the course is for each student to know the types of window treatments available and to be able to select window treatments to meet present or future needs. This guide has been divided into four…

This revised English curriculum guide contains descriptions of the numerous courses offered in eight South Bend high schools. A separate set of electives is presented for students in the 9th grade, and a nongraded phase program is presented for students in the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades. Course descriptions, course objectives, course content,…

The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Awards Program for achievement in science teaching seeks to identify and recognize outstanding achievements in science education from preschool through college. Specifically, its purpose is to encourage the development of creative ideas, techniques, and materials that will increase the effectiveness…

A sample of student tasks and topic objectives which were developed for woodworking courses in Project ABLE are given. A larger collection of these were identified for grades 10, 11, and 12. Prior to this activity an analysis of selected occupations was made, and a frequency count of skills and knowledges was utilized to determine the necessary…

Summarized are the proceedings of the third annual conference of the Federation for Unified Science Education (FUSE), held in December, 1968. Includes are brief summaries of reports on unified science programs at Millburn Senior High School, New Jersey; Monona Grove High, Wisconsin; Barringer High, Newark, New Jersey; Tamaqua Area Senior High,…

A report on the social studies curriculum in Virginia is the result of a study of the social studies program, kindergarten through grade 12, undertaken over a four year period. Special focus was placed on the four following areas: proliferation of elective course offerings in social studies at the senior high level; course offerings at grades…

Five program areas among Wyoming higher education institutions were studied. The programs analyzed were: Agriculture, Apprenticeship Training, Computer Science, Law Enforcement, and Secretarial Science. The purpose of the study was to compare the five programs among the community colleges and the University of Wyoming. The report is divided into…