A conference is reported in which experiential education practitioners addressed the utility and acceptability of the policy guidelines for work oriented experiential education developed by a national advisory panel of management, labor, education, and community representatives. The first part of the report contains the full text of the five…

This handbook is designed to aid in the implementation of a Career Education PLUS (planning, learning, understanding, and succeeding) class that is built upon the concept of experience-based career education. Following an introductory section, the first of five additional sections outlines steps that should be taken to determine the interest and…

This guidebook is written for those who question the process of earning credit for experience and what knowledge and skills might lead to a credit award, and should assist educators who are approached for accreditation of knowledge and skills learned on a Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)-funded job. There are five sections: the…

During the past 50 years, outdoor education as a curriculum development has progressed from a few pilot projects to some fairly comprehensive programs in the United States and Canada. In the process, outdoor education programs have lost the relaxed pace of earlier programs, flexibility in planning and scheduling, and total involvement of the…

Four strategies that are useful in conducting research on experiential education programs are discussed and illustrated. These include: case studies, content analysis, use of a focused survey, and concept analysis. Each strategy addresses an issue particular to experiential education. Case studies allow data collection on a large number of…

This is a unit on Iroquois culture of the past and the aspects of that culture which continue to exist in the longhouse tradition at the present time. The unit is divided into four sections: (1) an introduction that provides a summary of background information on the Iroquois village and mode of living; (2) an outline of the concept, objectives,…

Fifty years of innovative programming in what has come to be called resident outdoor education are traced in this volume which examines the evolution of resident outdoor education from its early beginnings to the present. The several authors of this book are leaders in outdoor education who have been intimately involved in the development of…

The approach to teaching group theory used in this report was to give students many different kinds of examples of the concept being taught. The functions of models and examples in terms of student preferences and the psychology of the learning experience are discussed. Six representations of the tetrahedral group were developed as test materials.…

A teacher education program for prospective secondary school English teachers is described. The program begins with the usual general education for two years, including a field experience working as a teacher aide in a public school and a human relations training program. The third and fourth years are devoted to major course work and professional…

An experience-based career education project for gifted and talented high school students was implemented in three pilot schools in Jefferson County, Colorado. The model was adapted from an existing model, which was designed for the regular school population and based on a prototype model developed by Northwest Regional Education Laboratory.…

The purpose of this book is to help the reader to become a more effective facilitator of learning. Based on the assumption that the most valuable learning is founded in self-knowledge and a resultant knowledge of others, the book presents a view of teaching as helping and caring with a supportive yet flexible structure. It states that the goal of…

The Developing Mathematical Processes (DMP) program was field-tested in the kindergarten and first three grades of one parochial and five public schools. DMP is an activity-based program developed around a comprehensive list of behavioral objectives. The program is concerned with the development of intuitive geometric concepts as well as…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of mathematics laboratories at the eighth grade level results in greater mathematics achievement and whether students prefer mathematics laboratories to other methods of presentation. Six classes totalling 146 eighth grade students were assigned a pre-lab approach, a post-lab approach, or…

The first part of this yearbook treats the characteristics and needs of the slow learner, the research literature, behavioral objectives, and the creation of a favorable learning environment. The second part, meant to provide more specific help for the classroom teacher, deals with teaching techniques, multisensory aids and activities, mathematics…

The process of establishing an individualized mathematics program is discussed. An annotated list of references covering program and course goals and objectives, diagnostic and achievement tests, teacher reference books, and activity sources is provided. Twenty-one articles from "The Arithmetic Teacher" which offer a rationale for the activity…