This paper is a proposal for developing a manual that provides preschool teachers with prescriptive guidelines for teaching verbal and conceptual skills with modeling. Several studies are cited to indicate the power and versatality of observational and learning (modeling) procedures in promoting the acquisition, generalization, and retention of a…

The document provides a systematic analysis of curriculum in marketing, focusing on the design and evaluation of a vocational course in the distributive education curriculum. The core course, entitled basic marketing, was selected because marketing competencies are essential to every distributive education student. The following areas are…

In response to the interest in environmental education programs in the schools, the state of Illinois has planned this handbook as a guide for teachers desiring to develop an environmental curriculum or to expand an existing one. The guide presents a rationale for developing such a program, including current environmental education laws and state…

This paper discusses the implications of curriculum development and curriculum innovation needs for education in general and educational administration and educational planning in particular. It points out how administrations should change their role to open up educational systems for change and the place of a curriculum development planning unit…

Mathematical learning at six cognitive levels, in areas of exact and varied repetition, was studied in 28 educable mentally handicapped students (mean IQ 74, mean age 12.6). Four different machine-presented programs of 10 lessons each utilized inductive or deductive modes of presentation and exact or varied forms of curriculum repetition. Results…

This paper presents a model of the curriculum development process that reflects curriculum project practices. Regularities found in the data from one case study were checked against reports of other project practices, and those regularities common to all the projects studied served as the model foundation. The model asserts that a curriculum…

A systems model for the design and management of instruction in occupational fields is described. The model is broken down into these phases: (1) analysis, in which occupational tasks are specified via task analysis, tasks are restated as behavioral objectives and a sequence is specified for the objectives, (2) synthesis, in which instructional…

The growing complexity of urban industrial society necessitates adequate planning techniques to insure future livability, but traditional methods of training planners have emphasized technology and ignored the human element. To remedy this deficiency, training programs should be expanded to include the social and political aspects of planning.…

In the four major speeches presented the question under consideration was basically how can the school curriculum best be developed to enable the individual to realize his potential as an independent entity in a mass society. The first speech, "Individuality, Society, and Education" considers this problem from a philosophical base. In the second,…

This is a curriculum guide for junior high school students and police trainees. It is designed to improve police-juvenile relations through juvenile attitude change and police understanding. Units have been developed for social studies teachers pertaining to the law and law enforcement and for police trainees dealing with the nature of the early…

Special features of a nongraded elementary school program are reviewed as a guide to those wishing to implement the concept as a way to provide individualized instruction and quality education for all students. Emphases include the individual differences of students, the restrictive character of graded schools, curriculum patterns, levels of…

In this report of a project on curriculum planning, a new language is developed for analyzing and describing "the curricular-instructional subsystem." Some of the data come from the author's experiences in planning and directing the Experimental Freshman-Year Program (EFP) at San Francisco State College, but most were collected at the…

With the aim of revitalizing conservation education, a conceptual framework for natural resource education was constructed, and a procedure established for integrating this curriculum with existing courses of study in the elementary school. A basic theme was chosen, expressed as "man + natural resources = survival + development." Twelve…

This publication contains a program outline and a workbook used in an experimental session whose objectives were to explain how ACT (Achievement Competence Training) was developed and designed from a synthesis of psychological research literature, familiarize the attendees with the methods used to develop the curriculum package; demonstrate…

The development of a Mental Health Technology Program at Middlesex Community College is proposed. The 2-year program would train the student to become a middle-level generalist in the field of mental health with special abilities as a communicator. On successfully completing the program, the student would receive an Associate Degree in Mental…