Suggestions are made for teaching language arts to mentally retarded children. The nature of language arts, the effect of mental retardation on the learning of language arts, and the need for home-school cooperation are treated. Also described are language arts areas, the school program, methods of beginning instruction, speech training,…

The role of Vermont state agencies in the development and coordination of eight projects funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) is discussed. The eight special schools participating are listed, as are four out of state schools attended by Vermont children under the same Title. Consideration is given the following…

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…

The document is a guide to a 9th and 10th grade industrial education course investigating the total system of power--how man controls, converts, transmits, and uses energy; the rationale is that if one is to learn of the total system of industry, the subsystem of power must be investigated. The guide provides a "body of knowledge" chart…

The teacher-developed guide attempts to establish a student-centered learning environment for the development of languaging capabilities through information and insights for students about themselves and the world of work. The flexibly arranged materials can be used as a one-semester course or as separate objectives and units within existing…

This handbook is designed to provide basic information that is necessary to use the Chelmsford School System's Instructional Media Center (IMC). It defines six different media (print, sound, television, photography, movies and design) and suggests a series of separate classroom production activities in each. An emphasis is given to the ways in…

Psychological and physiological concepts about information transmission are reviewed with a view toward uncovering principles useful to the design of audiovisual teaching materials. Audiovisual materials which transmit information via the visual or auditory channels are considered, including sound motion pictures, film strips, and audio…

This book presents part of the proceedings from the Third Annual Conference on Behavior Analysis in Education which was designed to provide Project Follow Through with the most current research products in the field, and to serve participating researchers by providing a medium for exchange of information regarding the state of the art and its most…

This language program guide is designed for teachers of primary age Spanish-background children who have limited control of standard English, the oral language necessary for success in the usual school environment. The materials included comprise Part Four of the "Primary One Guide." The conceptual content for the 40 lessons is drawn…

This study is concerned with the relative amount of overlap or duplication existing between the first two years of the liberal arts college and the last two years of secondary school in the areas of English, science, social studies, and mathematics. Financial problems and other valid areas for concern are also explored: 1) How valid may repetition…

An exploration of basic language and communication skills is the subject matter of this course. Performance objectives for the student include: (1) recognition of employment-related words, (2) satisfactory completion of various application forms, (3) correct oral response to questions, (4) identification of basic facts about social security, labor…

The 1-year project reported here was undertaken for World Literacy of Canada to survey the nature and extent of functional illiteracy in Canada, with a focus on those activities currently being undertaken in Anglophone Canada. An introduction provides background on the extent of the problem, comparing 1961 and 1971 Census statistics, and defines…

Reviewing the state of the art of southern rural development education needs, this paper presents tabular and narrative data re: (1) Current Expenditures by Region and Type of School District Per Pupil Enrolled in Public Primary and Secondary Schools; (2) Current Expenditures Per Pupil Enrolled in Public Primary and Secondary Schools by Region and…

Constituting the first material accomplishment of the recently formed International Network of Rural Youth Researchers (INRYR), this annotated bibliography presents abstracts of 19 papers presented at the Fourth World Congress for Rural Sociology during the summer of 1976 at Torun, Poland in a seminar entitled "Rural Youth: Human Resource or…

This report is a multi-disciplinary evaluation of policy-related research (which met relatively high standards of scientific validity) dealing with features of work affecting both the productivity and job satisfaction of employees. Its purpose is to determine whether and how worker job satisfaction and productivity together may be enhanced by…