These guidelines provide basic literacy materials and materials directed toward the teaching of pre-employment skills and life skills, computational skills, and native cultural awareness for native adult students. The material is applicable in both urban and rural (on-reserve) situations and directed toward students between a non-literate and…

This curriculum guide consists of materials for use in implementing two 10-meeting series of group discussions designed to enhance the process of the socialialization of students enrolled in an associate degree nursing program. Addressed in the discussion sessions are the following topics: developing an awareness of self-concept and gaining…

This package consists of a report describing a project in which child care students served as leaders in after-school recreational programs for latch key children, a series of newspaper articles describing the program, an article by Judy Weber entitled "Latch Key Programs Providing Experiential Opportunities for Child Care Students," and…

Ways in which social studies teachers can help students in grades 6, 7, and 8 improve their reading comprehension and understanding of social studies ideas and concepts are discussed, and sample reading comprehension activities are provided. First, teachers must choose a textbook with readability and concept levels appropriate for their students.…

Developed by Project BASICS, this guide contains a basic training workshop that teachers in high schools could use to teach students job-seeking skills. The book contains learning activities that actively involve students. The activities are presented in a format in which the left side of the page contains the time length, rationale, materials,…

This module is intended to help guidance personnel in a variety of educational and agency settings increase their skills in planning, implementing, and evaluating community involvement and public relations activities as a part of an overall career guidance program. The module is one of a series of competency-based guidance program training…

This module, one in a series of competency-based guidance program training packages, focuses on specific professional and paraprofessional competencies of guidance personnel. Modules in Category C suggest how to conduct, accomplish, or carry out selected career guidance program activities. The purpose of this module is to help career guidance…

This first in a series of ten learning modules on school-community relations is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers competency in selecting opportunities for contacting the public, and in selecting techniques to use during those contacts in order to inform the public about a vocational program or to promote a program.…

This instructional guide suggests a way for teachers of fourth grade students to organize a social studies unit related to the study of Maryland. The eight to ten week unit is divided into four sections. Section I, a general unit outline, presents organizing concepts and questions, instructional objectives, and suggested topics for study. Section…

This guide was developed as part of a curriculum research project designed to improve the teaching/learning process for industrial arts education in North Dakota secondary schools and to restructure subject matter into the cluster areas for efficient teaching and delivery. The guide is intended to assist industrial arts teachers in developing…

This eighteenth in a series of twenty-nine learning modules on instructional execution is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in recognizing significant differences among students and in individualizing the instruction to reflect these differences. Introductory sections relate the competencies dealt with here to…

This last in a series of six learning modules on instructional evaluation is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in identifying the sources and techniques needed in order to plan a method of teacher evaluation which is logical, usable, and capable of improving teaching performance on a continuing basis. The…

Developed by the Cincinnati Public Schools as part of a project designed to provide career orientation for students in grades 7 and 8, this manual is designed to provide activities and information concerning the infusion of seven career developmental areas in the curriculum. These developmental areas include self, individual and environment, the…

Materials contained in this career guidance unit are designed to help the grade 7 junior high school student recognize and develop self identity through understanding, developing, and establishing interpersonal and intrapersonal goals by identifying social skills through self inventories. The unit consists of three to five 45-minute periods…

Materials contained in this career guidance unit introduce ninth grade students to business careers available and provide information to guide the student in preparing for these careers. The six-hour unit is designed primarily for classroom instruction, but can be adapted for individual use under teacher or counselor direction. Instructional…