The implementation of instruction for a variety of vocational education and manpower needs can be facilitated by this curriculum guide. The guide includes teaching units for 16 areas of general office education, eight areas of specialized office education, and three areas of administrative office education. Each unit includes the time required for…

Three levels of work in language development for preschool and primary age deaf children are presented, along with suggested daily schedules and yearly programs. Skills covered are speech, lipreading, auditory training, and language. Instructions are given for teaching activities in the areas of the various parts of speech and types of sentences.…

Designed for use with primary level educable mentally handicapped children, the guide lists general objectives, gives a unit and a daily lesson plan on wise buying from the grocery or stationery store, and explains how to make experience charts. Over three-fourths of the guide consists of behavioral objectives with general objectives and terminal…

General objectives for intermediate level educable retardates are stated; a unit on home and family is provided along with a first day lesson plan and daily schedule. Over 100 pages of the guide list behavioral objectives arranged in terms of general objectives and specify terminal behavior, communicative and functional skills, suggested…

This guide for educators at the elementary and secondary levels contains articles written by people directly concerned with African studies. Charles Billings, in his article, "Africa in the Curriculum," offers a rationale for African studies and puts forward a number of useful suggestions regarding content, approaches and emphases. Commonly held…

Curriculum materials in each home economics area for junior and senior high school levels were developed over a 5-year period by a committee of state supervisory staff, college department chairmen, teacher educators, and teachers. The sequence of offerings is based on student experience at suggested grade levels and include: basic home economics,…

The Toledo Public Schools developed this curriculum guide for the resident camp experience as a part of a new program especially designed for educating disadvantaged children. Emphasis at the camp is placed on young people learning to live as a community group where 8 to 10 students plus a counselor live in cabins for 5 days. The student group…

This guide has been designed to assist school districts in developing a comprehensive program of health instruction from kindergarten through grade twelve. It is a framework that provides structure for the development of a sequential, but flexible health education curriculum to meet local needs and provide for the changing health problems facing…

Ways in which geographic education lags behind recent developments in the field, as well as conceptual and practical suggestions for bringing it up to date are discussed in this document. Unlike traditional geography, which rested on variations of environmental determinism, a basic interest in man and his spatial reference underlies the concepts…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 4-7. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies; regions. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into 13 chapters, most of which are in list form. It is mimeographed and staple-bound with a paper cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: No specific activities are mentioned. The guide is intended as an overview of the…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 7-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Instrumental music. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into four sections, one each for grades 7-9, 10, 11, and 12. Each section contains units on strings, woodwinds and brass, percussion, and specific instrumental problems. The guide is straight text extensively illustrated with…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 7, 8, 9, and 12. SUBJECT MATTER: Guidance. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is in two parts. Part 1 contains three sections: Introduction, How Guidance Works, and Supporting Functions of Guidance. Part 2 contains seven sections: Course of Study, Grade 7, Grade 8, Secondary Schools; The Challenge of Grade 9,…

The document represents the efforts of a 15-member family life education workshop attended by teachers of grades K-12 with representatives from the fields of home economics, health education, social studies, biology, and counseling services. The curriculums are appropriate for teacher use in grades K through 12 or in teacher training. They were…

Seventy-nine countries took part in this comparative study of education conducted by the International Bureau of Education and Unesco. The study presents information obtained from these countries in comparative tables and individual narrative reports on each country's efforts in environmental education. Environmental education was defined to…

A course in past, present, and future Navajo culture has been developed for Navajo secondary school students. The philosophy of the course is that the Indian, regardless of his acculturation level, has the right to treasure the customs, arts, and beliefs of his ethnic group and that these cultural values should be presented in a sequential and…