Analyzing the changing needs of young people today can be helpful in designing future nutrition education programs. Studies indicate that 40 percent of today's 18-26 year olds have considerably different values/attitudes from past values/attitudes. Technology may determine what is possible, but values and attitudes determine what people will…

The purpose of the study was to trace and document by means of historical research methods, the organization of the St. Louis Public School System's elementary reading curriculum in regard to instructional methodology, legislation, and influential personalities. Chronologically, the study covered the period 1821-1973. The reading curriculum of the…

The purposes of the project described in this report were to train curriculum specialists and to develop and test curriculum design training materials. The first phase of the project included the development of training materials and their use to train a small group of students. During the training of the pilot group of students, an effective…

The paper describes the design of an Experience Based Career Education program (EBCE) in West Virginia, a program designed to provide high school juniors and seniors with systematic and coordinated experiential learning. The basic design strategy consists of a matrix that establishes workable relationships among elements of the system design,…

In the first part of this handbook, designed especially for the highly transient student in a county jail or prison, sociological and psychological factors central to education within the prison environment are discussed. Such issues as optimum scheduling of class time, the employment of tutor and peer help, the utility and appropriateness of…

Presented as part of the Special Education Supervisor Training Project at the University of Texas is a learning packet on designing instructional units. Structured as a self-paced unit, the packet includes an eight-item pretest, three task assignments, and a nine-item evaluation checklist. (CL)

University and college English departments, preoccupied with literary study, have long neglected their role in teacher preparation, especially the training of college composition teachers. Grammar, rhetoric, and logic are studies more valuable to the composition teacher than courses in imaginative literature. The weighting of curriculum in favor…

This document is an attempt to communicate information on the innovative programs in which black colleges and universities are involved. Part 1, the introduction, covers historical perspective on curriculum development in black colleges, rationales for the study of curricular innovations in historically black colleges and curricular innovations.…

The paper addresses itself to the R-L-L Curriculum Model as developed by this Title III ESEA Project. The elements of the model are described: 1) The educational purposes or objectives as defined within the scope of the basic activities of man; 2) The learning experiences necessary for the behavioral objectives stated in terms described by Mager;…

This paper discusses efforts in various countries to encourage family planning. The role of the family planning worker and the school educator are constrasted, the former's being to train, motivate, and give information. The school teacher's role is to integrate population education in the curriculum of the formal educational system. A series of…

Educational specifications for secondary educable mentally handicapped children are discussed. The philosophy, instructional programs, space needs, storage, special considerations (environmental, utilities), and relationships (within the program, to closely related programs) are covered. (CD)

This book is a personal account of teaching experience in the inner city school, as well as being an organized approach to improving teaching methods. On the schools and the teachers are placed the responsibility for teaching and for reasonable academic achievement of students. The underlying educational philosophy is that the individual teacher…

The methods described in this book are designed to allow the teacher who is unfamiliar with the technical characteristics and demands of a computer to prepare instructional materials for computer-assisted tutorial lessons. The techniques are not dependent upon the requirements of a particular CAI system, but are generalized for any system using a…

Guidelines for curriculum design in reading, composition, and grammar and usage are presented in the form of required skills for each of four grades (6-9). Four English examinations designed to test these skills are also provided. Brief comments on examinations in other subject areas offered by the National Association of Independent Schools and a…

The curriculum is the heart of the secondary school and its continuous revision is at once dependent upon the evolution of theories and the emerging needs of society. Curriculum theory may be regarded as a body of beliefs, assumptions, and knowledge derived through a process of critical analysis and substantiated by study and observation. Four…