The goal of the POR FIN research design was to develop a language-based curriculum emphasizing the audiolingual approach and integrating academic and social-functioning subject matter. The modular curriculum is designed so that each lesson is independent and complete in itself, and provides a high degree of motivation, retention, and achievement…

This state foreign language curriculum guide provides a comprehensive overview of policy and suggested procedures for progress at the secondary school level. Major sections include: (1) philosophy and objectives of language study, (2) personnel in the language program, (3) principles of language learning, (4) methodology, (5) evaluation, (6)…

Technical activities for the period October 1 through December 31, 1968 are covered. Described are the development, implementation, interim evaluation, and probable future applications of the first and second level electronics curriculums. One hundred and sixty-nine electro-electronic job titles were identified; tasks within these were classified…

The diminishing status of Latin in the curriculum underscores the author's plea to Latin teachers to strive toward the implementation of nine suggestions concerning: (1) improved teaching, (2) professional cooperation, (3) institutes and workshops, (4) organizational support, (5) the Junior Classical League, (6) experiments and projects, (7)…

Thirteen papers on early childhood education are presented on the following topics: stimulation and cognitive development of infants and younger children, curriculum development for young handicapped children, a rationale for sequencing instructional activities for preschool handicapped children, observation of educational activities and…

A systematic cross-cultural study of French and Hispanic cultures is made in three major areas in this guide designed to help integrate sociocultural subject matter into the foreign language instructional program. Human nature, social relations, man and nature, time, and space--as universal problems of cultural orientation--serve as the foundation…

This document provides an analysis and synthesis of trade and industrial education research studies primarily from August 1966 to April 1, 1969, which involved the collection of data and comparison either between groups or correlation of pieces of data for the same group. Sources ranged from books, journals, and dissertations to papers presented…

The final report of the planning phase of Project COULD (Career Orientation Utilizing Language Development) serves a dual purpose: It provides a summary description of the overall project and of each of the units; and it records the interim and final evaluations. Project COULD was conceived as a partial answer to the problem that 60 percent of the…

This guide is intended to be used as a model to develop Career Education Experiences in a classroom program. It includes eight sample learning modules for the primary grade level (K-3) and another eight for the intermediate grade level (4-6). Each module has three basic parts: instructional information, instructional activities, and culmination or…

Every individual's needs will differ, and a unit/credit system must be designed with sufficient flexibility to ensure that whatever the individual's interest in language learning, the system caters to it. The thesis of this paper is that, while a grammatical approach to language teaching cannot cater to it, a communicative approach can. A…

This foreign language curriculum guide for secondary school French and Italian includes the instructional objectives and activities for each language learning level and its corresponding suggested school grade. For French, there is a further breakdown according to language skills, grammar, reading, structures, conversation, and culture and…

This is a final report on five demonstration programs developed by four professional arts education associations. The program, which had a primary concern of retraining teachers, had for its goals: the reorientation of the school climate towards the arts and affective learning; development of educational programs of high artistic quality in each…

This project report describes a program designed to increase the effectiveness of the general educational program for the Filipino-Indian community in the Bainbridge Island School System. The rationale is based on the need for improved home-school contact and communications, the need for improved average daily attendance, and the need for improved…

Educational research on the social studies since the 1960's, indicating that many changes have occurred yet implying that there is still a further need for research and improvement, is summarized in this booklet. Because the vast amount of research on social studies makes it impractical to report a great deal of it, many of the findings reported…

A survey was made to determine if American youth understands why and how the United States departed from the pre-Wilsonian policy of no permanent alliances to become allied with 47 different nations in 11 treaties in a period of only 12 years. The primary survey source was a questionnaire on both attitude and knowledge completed by nearly 200…