The goal of these two seventh-grade language units is to provide some basic understanding about the structure and complexity of the English language and about the human ability to handle that language in ordinary speech situations. The first unit inductively presents a set of ordered rules which follow the conventions of modern symbolic logic and…

This 11th-grade unit on language of discourse is designed to help students gain the ability to evaluate argument, to construct logical and reasonable discourse, and to recognize ethical standards of free speech and inquiry. Stephen Toulmin's model of "evidence-warrant-claim" is used as a basic pattern for both the evaluation and…

This report evaluates a program designed to develop a new curriculum for disadvantaged eighth and ninth grade students in New York City who were performing poorly in school (academically, socially, emotionally) and who appeared likely to become school dropouts. The evaluation--representing the work of a multidiscipline team of specialists in…

An interdisciplinary course to be offered in grade 12 to serve as a capstone to the efforts of social studies, business education, home economics, health education, and industrial arts, in preparing citizens to be wise consumers, was developed by a team of teacher consultants and curriculum specialists. The materials were tested and revised after…

This guide contains an outline of topics to be included in individual subject areas in secondary school mathematics and some specific suggestions for teaching them. Areas covered include--(1) fundamentals of mathematics included in seventh and eighth grades and general mathematics in the high school, (2) algebra concepts for courses one and two,…

The document consists of three parts--an instructional bulletin for teachers of urban junior high school students with average and below average reading ability, a book of readings, and three novelettes prepared for these students. The bulletin offers guidelines on the ways to use the readings and suggestions for teaching literature to urban…

To furnish a curriculum guide for teachers of English as a second language, this manual explains the principles, sound and structure patterns, the vocabulary range, and the basic cultural and orientation information necessary to teach adults. To aid the teacher, such information as how adults learn, criteria for placing students by grade level,…

This is one of a series of Education for Parenthood Manuals developed by the Salvation Army for use in programs aimed at preparing teenagers for parenthood or for child care careers. This guide contains six curriculum units emphasizing self-understanding, knowledge about children and the responsibility of parenthood, and skills development for…

This teacher's guide for the SMSG text materials for grade 1 considers ten chapters: sets and numbers, numerals and the number line, sets of ten, introduction to addition and subtraction, recognizing geometric figures, place value and numeration, addition and subtraction, arrays and multiplication, partitions and rational numbers, and linear…

Detailed lesson plans are provided in this teacher's guide for the SMSG text materials for grade 2. Included are chapters on sets and numbers (review), addition and subtraction (review), sets of points, addition and subtraction (extension), linear measurement, computing sums and differences, congruence of angles and triangles, arrays and…

Part of a course designed to acquaint high school students with basic information concerning careers in community service, this teacher's manual is the first of nine (each with accompanying student guide) which constitute a course entitled "Orientation to Public Service." Focus in the units covered by the manual is on self-analysis,…

Part of a course designed to acquaint high school students with basic information concerning careers in public service, this student guide is one of nine (each with accompanying teacher's manual) which constitute a course entitled "Orientation to Public Service." Focus in the units covered by the guide is on resources management, one of…

Intermediate performance objectives and corresponding criterion measures are presented for each of six terminal objectives for a two-semester (3 hours daily) course designed to provide high school juniors and seniors with basic law enforcement skills and knowledge. Titles of the six terminal objectives are State Criminal Code, Patrol Methods and…

The natural science curriculum guide for gifted primary students includes a sample teaching-learning plan for an ecology unit and eight sample lesson plans. Chapter One provides an overview of the unit, a review of behavioral objectives, and a list of concepts and generalizations. The second chapter cites a teaching-learning plan dealing with such…

This guide was designed for use in home education programs aimed at helping both children and parents improve their self-confidence, as a preliminary step toward helping children succeed at school. Specific behavioral goals for the parent trainer, the parent, and the child are presented in five areas: (1) relationship to self, (2) relationship to…