AN 8-WEEK SEMINAR WAS HELD TO RETRAIN TEACHERS WITH A MINIMUM OF 3-YEARS' EXPERIENCE IN BUSINESS OR OFFICE EDUCATION TO TEACH BUSINESS DATA PROCESSING AND PROGRAMING TECHNIQUES. THE OBJECTIVES WERE TO ASSIST IN THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT NECESSARY FOR PREPARING COMPUTER PROGRAMERS AND APPLICATION ANALYSTS, AND TO DEVELOP COURSE MATERIAL,…

Contained in this curriculum manual are guidelines for incorporating energy conservation into regular classroom programs. To be most effective in teaching an energy ethic, a problem-solving approach is recommended which uses the expertise of each discipline. Also presented are general program goals, cognitive objectives, and affective goals for an…

This curriculum guide offers an overview of objectives, courses, and materials which comprise the social studies component of the junior and senior high school educational program in the state of Hawaii. The document is presented in six chapters. Chapter I lists general objectives, including that students develop independence in learning, a…

This annotated list of recommended English language arts curriculum guides is offered to publicize good curriculum planning and guide writing and to provide models for schools who are reviewing their programs and need a variety of sample frameworks, units, and lesson plans. The recommended guides are arranged by the year in which they were…

The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois has offered a course on German film for more than five years. This document includes a sample syllabus featuring a listing of the films shown and discussed and an annotated bibliography of texts used, along with a selective list of German films available for rental…

Representing the work of an elementary school staff, this language arts curriculum guide presents a philosophy and definition of language arts, the program development sequence, and a discussion of the purpose and place of language arts in the total elementary curriculum. Within each grade level the outlined educational objectives are grouped…

Descriptions of over 300 courses offered during 1978-1979 at the two-year Fayette Campus of Pennsylvania State University are provided as a means of assisting students and academic advisors during preregistration. The course guide was designed for the second stage of academic advising during which courses are scheduled for each term, short- and…

The purposes of this first phase of a state environmental education plan are: (1) to present the goals and objectives of environmental education for the state, and (2) to identify responsibility for providing leadership and guidance in meeting the objectives. The plan provides the framework within which detailed action plans will be developed in…

The catalog had been compiled as a resource to assist school district personnel in building or refining curricula using behaviorally stated objectives. It was developed in response to a multitude of requests about existing collections of instructional objectives; the subject areas available; and the grade levels covered. This inventory of…

This program description contains goals and objectives for five mathematics curriculum levels: three- and four-year-olds, five-year-olds, six- and seven-year-olds, eight- and nine-year-olds, and ten- and eleven-year-olds. A mathematics program overview for Smith College Campus School and a discussion of considerations for mathematics curriculum…

This guide describes a model for training teachers in a multi-disciplinary, multi-process approach to environmental education. The model was developed and evaluated over a two-year period. The guide documents experience with the model and points out suggestions for building an inservice program in environmental education that makes use of…

This paper describes a directed-study seminar course in the craft of poetry using Malcolm Knowles' andragogical principles of teaching (related to the educational process of adults as contrasted with pedagogy, the educational process of children). The background and significance of the course are discussed and procedures for administering it,…

This is one in a series of manuals for teachers using SMSG high school supplementary materials. The pamphlet includes commentaries on the sections of the student's booklet, answers to the exercises, and sample test questions. Topics covered include complex numbers, operations, standard form, equations, graphs and conjugates. (MP)

This is one in a series of manuals for teachers using SMSG high school supplementary materials. The pamphlet includes commentaries on the sections of the student's booklet, answers to the exercises, and sample test questions. Topics covered include directed line segments, applications to geometry, vectors and scalars, components, inner product,…

This is one in a series of manuals for teachers using SMSG high school supplementary materials. The pamphlet includes commentaries on the sections of the student's booklet, answers to the exercises, and sample test questions. Topics covered include history of numerals, the decimal system, expanded numerals and exponential notation, numerals in…