This guide for teacher inservice training is focused on the concept of Ekistics--the study of man in his environment. The strategies presented are based on generic inservice culminating in a management planning model, purposefully generic to all inservice and intended to add support to the personnel who would be designing inservice. The steps to…

This guide for teaching composition to grades 9 and 10 sets up a specific writing focus for each elective course period. The guide is divided into four units--the paragraph, description, narration, and exposition. Each unit contains a statement of the focus and lists of specific objectives, guidelines, suggested activities, and teacher resources.…

The handbook for teaching gifted children art in grades 1-3 provides guidelines for curriculum development and teaching suggestions. Among topics considered in an overview of the art program are past and present art, the use of environmental design, pupil involvement in art, and identification and selection of gifted children. The art curriculum…

This multidisciplinary multi-period community-based environmental curriculum blends the academic traditions of the humanities and the sciences, namely: social sciences, language art skills, and the physical and life sciences. The centralizing theme of the program is directed toward defining environmentally related problems utilizing the community…

The development of culturally acceptable social and community skills is prerequisite to effective participation in the world of work. This guide was developed to assist teachers of the mentally handicapped who are often deficient in perceiving what is socially acceptable and therefore require special assistance in developing social awareness. Five…

This mathematics curriculum resource handbook provides background information and techniques of instruction designed for instructors helping students to prepare themselves for the General Educational Development Tests. It consists largely of fundamental concepts which high school graduates are expected to retain, together with some techniques…

School administrators, teachers, and businessmen will find this work-study guide useful in developing courses to teach the disadvantaged to be operators of automatic data processing equipment. Fourteen course units cover fundamental principles of programing, specific programs such as FORTRAN and COBOL, and the skills required for the position.…

The bases for the development of this resource book were notes and a course outline used in teaching Alaska History at the junior high school level. It can be used as a checklist, a guide to organizing lesson plans, selecting classroom and testing materials, and as a source of concepts and information for any grade level. Most of the material is…

This very extensive guide, designed in large measure by classroom teachers and meant for use by classroom teachers, is one community's response to its drug problem. The completed guide, however, is designed for adaptation throughout the nation and in foreign countries. Material is offered for different school levels, with the primary grades…

As a source book of ideas, this guide has been written for teachers to help them, and, in turn, their students to observe, investigate, and interpret parts of the environment. Using soil and water as the primary subject areas, a sequential scheme of environmental activities is developed for the primary, intermediate, and junior high grade levels.…

This review describes and evaluates the "Michigan Oral Language Series," a series which includes structured oral language lessons for preschool and kindergarten children learning English as a second language or standard English as a second dialect, and programs in testing and teacher training. With the exception of the "Spanish Guide," all the…

Prepared by a technical writer for the Division of Manpower Development and Training, this guide is intended to aid instructors, supervisors, and administrators of vocational education and manpower training programs in establishing training programs for mechanics and technicians entering the occupation of servicing heavy construction equipment.…

This curriculum guide is for administrators and their advisors to use in meeting local, state, and regional needs in training architectual and building construction technicians at the post-high school level. It was developed by a technical education specialist at the national level. The guide provides: (1) a suggested curriculum plan, (2) course…

Four life adjustment areas for the educable mentally handicapped are outlined on three levels: primary, intermediate, and early secondary. These areas are self realization, social awareness, human relationships, and economic efficiency. A sample lesson plan is provided on each of the three levels; also provided are a cross reference to content and…

This publication is a revision of a preliminary curriculum guide on family living including sex education which was developed and implemented during 1967-1969. Among the objectives listed for this program are: (1) to promote an awareness that, within the various patterns of family living, love and mutual concern are basic to harmonious…