The experiences of a headmaster of a primary junior school situated in the older part of a large city are described. The point is made that the children in this school, with but little conscious awareness of what was beautiful, had within them an ability to create true beauty within all the media of the arts. This booklet is divided into eight…

The first part of this document is a course outline for "Inductive Teaching Techniques for the Junior and Senior High School Teachers." The method of instruction uses an approach suggested in the Taba Inservice Education program, and the class consists of conducting a situation as the teacher would in the classroom. The second part of the document…

The management of education is an increasingly important consideration throughout the nation. Tested management concepts and systems are needed for vocational and technical education to efficiently resolve the complex problems of: (1) policy development, (2) planning, (3) provision and utilization of facilities and equipment, (4) budgeting and…

TEACHER EDUCATORS AND STATE SUPERVISORS FROM THE CENTRAL STATES PARTICIPATED IN A 3-DAY SEMINAR. TEXTS OF THE FOLLOWING TALKS WERE GIVEN--"NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION," BY HOMER E. EDWARDS, "OBJECTIVES, GOALS, OR FUNDAMENTALS OF HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM," BY RAY AGAN, "TEACHING BASIC PRODUCTION…

This volume contains criterion referenced reading tests for 22 objectives to be mastered in a Spanish-English bilingual First Grade. The emphasis is on encoding and decoding tasks, vocabulary development, and reading comprehension. (AM)

This monograph is a collection of papers describing a series of loosely related studies of visual attention, auditory stimulation, and language discrimination in young infants. Titles include: (1) Infant Attention and Discrimination: Methodological and Substantive Issues; (2) The Addition of Auditory Stimulation (Music) and an Interspersed…

This manual is an introduction to field techniques for undergraduate anthropology students. It describes 14 projects, each devoted to a traditional area of anthropological inquiry. A "method" or "data collecting tool" is suggested by which each topic may be investigated profitably. Project 1 describes a suitable beginning field assignment.…

Guidelines for the development of the Dutch educational system from 1975 to 1995 are presented in this booklet. Part of a series of reviews of member countries' educational planning and policy, this document is presented in three parts. Part I, Background Report, is the official English summary of the original report titled "Contours of a…

One of a series of three K-6 guides developed under the K-6 Teacher and Counselor Competencies in Career Education Program, this guide contains a section for each of the K-2 levels (Readiness, First Experience Level, and Second Experience Level), each encompassing the two career education components: Subject Matter Areas (to reinforce science,…

Assessing the first institution of higher learning on an American Indian reservation in the U.S., this evaluation departs from the orthodox in that it addresses "need" areas observed during the Navajo Community College's first 12 months of operation (organization, budget and finance, communication, students and student services,…

Topics and ideas for infusing global perspectives on interrelatedness into the secondary social studies curriculum are intended to be used selectively by teachers. The major objectives of the guide are to help students become aware of global interdependence and implications and problems which accompany interdependence. Section I presents ideas for…

A research project conducted from July 1974 through June 1976 to develop more comprehensive State-local planning for curriculum development, work-experience programs, and programs for the disadvantaged and handicapped was designed to coordinate total planning activities from the Kansas State Department of Education to the local classroom level. A…

This report presents a description of the activities and findings of a research team providing consulting services to Princeton High School in the areas of classroom management, leadership and organizational development, and race relations. The predominately middle-class white school was merging with a predominately black working-class school.…

The program evaluated was developed to assist teachers in providing students with opportunities to become successful users of content materials through the installation and reinforcement of independent study skills. Lessons using high interest items in social studies content with emphasis on improving cognitive processes were designed for…

This is a summary of the Swedish national report on the 1970 and 1971 international investigations on French as a foreign language as taught in eight countries: England (including Wales), Chile, Scotland, the U.S.A., New Zealand, the Netherlands, Rumania, and Sweden. In the full report, data from the international analysis are used to highlight…