An introductory literature course for college sophomores focuses on children's "classics," based on the premise that no book good for children is for children only. This document describes an approach to teaching the "Little House in the Big Woods" series of children's books. Three techniques are suggested for confirming the…

Inadequacies in the quality and quantity of human services for Northeastern rural area residents prompted the seminar from which these transcripts are derived. Presented via chronological order, these transcripts reflect development of a framework and methodology for analysis of community service systems. Major seminar objectives are identified…

The Air Force has maintained an increasing awareness of the basic principles of personnel counseling and human relations. However, it does not have a basic integrated counseling program at base level. This study addresses five base level activities whose dominant mission involves counseling. These activities are: the Education Services Office,…

Many educational problems center around vocational education--its place in the total educational program, its relation to academic education, when vocational education should be started, and who should participate. Vocational education, the alternative to college preparatory programs, is frequently rejected and more often misunderstood by…

White children in our White-dominant society come early to feel that their skin color is the accepted one. If children are to have attitudes and behavior different from the general culture, they will have to be reared in a subculture of equality at home. Children should see their parents acting towards Blacks as they see them acting towards…

Five papers presented at a language conference are compiled in this report. They include: (1) "Le Francais au Pot-Pourri," or "Adapting the 'Open-Classroom' to the Teaching of Foreign Languages," (2) "We Can Teach Anyone to Speak French," (3) "The Use of Puppetry in the Teaching of Foreign Languages," (4) "A New Perspective for Integrated Foreign…

The aim of the Quinmester course "Greek and Roman Mythology" is to help students understand mythological references in literature, art, music, science and technology. The subject matter includes: creation myths; myths of gods and heroes; mythological allusions in astrology, astronomy, literature, science, business, puzzles, and everyday…

The University of Texas at Dallas is one of the 7 new upper level colleges and universities (institutions offering only junior, senior and graduate level programs) recently established in Texas. A curriculum plan has been devised at the University that provides a unique combination of program budgeting, interdisciplinary activity with no sacrifice…

This document presents a summary of the academic plan of The University of Texas at Dallas, a recently established upper level university (institution offering only junior, senior and graduate level programs). The document describes the academic organization of the University, the undergraduate programs, the graduate programs, the research policy…

The importance of inservice training in the field of reading instruction, especially for secondary-level teachers in the content areas, is clear. Teachers must become personally involved with the reading task and must be provided with time to prepare and evaluate instructional materials. In order to assess the effectiveness of teacher-developed…

The competing stresses and interests that are reflected in school budgets can be used to introduce various objectives within the social sciences curriculum. The author demonstrates the wide applicability of the budget to social studies concepts with some suggestions. (Author/RK)

Presents a summary of the Schools Council Integrated Science Project (SCISP). The SCISP is a British science program developed for students who are 13-16 years old. The approach and the content of the SCISP are also presented. (HM)

Describes an elementary school project of constructing and marketing toys for a profit. (SL)

Reports on some of the advantages--language creativity, applied phonics, and integrated skills--for the South African Indian children learning to read and write with the Language Experience Approach. (MB)

Instructional group settings within the mainstream class were compared for 45 learning disabled and 45 non-learning disabled students in an effort to document differential instructional settings used for mainstream children. No group difference was demonstrated for lecture/presentation or seatwork settings. (HOD/Author)