Approximately 115 lessons for increasing third grade students' safety knowledge and skills as pedestrians, as auto and school bus passengers, and as operators of bicycles are provided in this traffic safety curriculum. One third of the curriculum focuses on perceptual safety activities for young pedestrians, including lessons on visual and…

Directions and materials for approximately 110 fourth grade level trafic safety learning activities, intended to develop the perceptual skills of young pedestrians and to train fourth grade students in safe conduct on the school bus, on bicycles, in an auto and in the school environment, are provided. Safety concepts and skills are taught through…

Intended to train fifth grade students in safe conduct on the school bus, on bicycles, in autos and in the school environment and to develop their perceptual skills as pedestrians amid traffic and under hazardous conditions at school, this curriculum provides directions and materials for approximately 130 safety learning activities. Safety…

Approximately 120 lessons for increasing sixth grade students' safety knowledge and skills as pedestrians in traffic and at school, as auto and school bus passengers, and as operators of bicycles are provided in this traffic curriculum. One third of the curriculum focuses on perceptual safety activities for young pedestrians, including lessons on…

This guide will help teachers and program specialists design a comprehensive K-12 social studies program using goal-based concepts and generalizations. Although written for use in Oregon, the document can be used by educators in other states. The major section of the guide, "Pattern for Units and Courses," outlines concepts, generalizations,…

This training manual explains the process of rating client openness from a short sample of dyadic help-intended interactions. The overview of client openness includes a discussion of the 10-week undergraduate program which teaches students to assess client openness based on behavioral ratings from the Group Assessment of Interpersonal Traits…

This guide for counselors working with bilingual secondary school students outlines various student needs and discusses the counseling skills and techniques necessary to meet these needs. Strategies for helping students to discover themselves, to locate needed information, and to make decisions wisely are delineated. Activities are suggested, and…

Learning activity packages are presented for teaching tractor mechanics. The first of two sections deals with miscellaneous tasks and contains learning activity packages on cleaning the tractor and receiving new tractor parts. Section 2 is concerned with maintaining and servicing the electrical system, and it includes the following learning…

This paper analyses new methods of teaching skiing in terms of a computational paradigm for learning called increasingly complex microworlds (ICM). Examining the factors that underlie the dramatic enhancement of the learning of skiing led to the focus on the processes of simplification, debugging, and coaching. These three processes are studied in…

The instructional materials described here are designed for teachers and administrators who are interested in establishing an individually guided educational program at the elementary school level. The topics addressed are individualized instruction and methods of planning and implementing such a program. The goal of the program is to develop…

The teacher education learning module described here focuses on interpersonal relationships, and the objective is to increase teacher competency in self-awareness, self-assessment and introspection, and the ability to become meaningfully involved in interpersonal and organizational relationships. The program is comprised of a series of personal…

The teacher inservice learning module described here focuses on skill building for management of unusual classroom problems such as learning disabilities, discipline, and emotional and physical problems of students. Information is provided on the purposes and content of the modules as well as activities and resources involved. A critique, history…

The programed materials for inservice teacher education described in this document are designed to make the teacher think about questioning techniques and learn some of the principles of good questioning procedures. The program is designed as a home study course. This descriptive report provides further information on the purposes and content of…

The teacher inservice training manual described here focuses on teacher training in sequential development of individualized learning modules for computer-assisted instruction. The intent of the manual is to help the teacher recognize, design, develop, and assess individualized learning materials. This descriptive report provides information on…

Recent research projects have indicated that a majority of adolescent and adult students have not reached a formal level of cognitive functioning and must therefore be taught rhetorical modes such as comparison and classification. A study was constructed to investigate the cognitive skills development of average college freshmen and to test…