This paper outlines a set of procedures for designing a science program for students at the junior high school level. A flow chart provides an overview of the curriculum design, and brief notes are given to clarify the procedures to be taken at each stage on the chart. Programs designed in this manner should fit into a larger framework of science…

A preliminary instructional model suitable for lesson preparation for a Computerized Training System is described. Topics discussed include general course architecture, general course structure, and the training decision process. Guidelines for the design of the model are presented and information is provided on the adaptation of the model to…

This article presents a rationale for the initiation of the career education movement in discussing the increasing emergence within the last few years of technological advances in America. Comprehensive and vocationally oriented, career education is designed to provide students with opportunities and experiences which will prepare them to become…

The author presents a dynamic case for a new, highly demanding, total collaboration among those involved in the education enterprise--from beginning to end. His ideas on educational reform challenge teachers to pursue academic freedom and to accept responsibility for demonstrating that their planning, teaching, methodology, and purposes have…

This book attempts to present a documented and comprehensive chronology of a recent effort to secure a black curriculum in a large, urban community; to offer a blueprint for uplifting the black man in America; and, to incite society to change. The main body of the book is devoted to laying out a black educational program and curriculum. Among the…

This document describes the efforts of program administrators to implement an organic curriculum in the Willingboro, New Jersey, public schools. Major activities included inservice programs to train teachers and administrators to write behavioral objectives, and implementation and modification of learning packages. Organic curriculum is a learner-…

This paper outlines procedures for (1) identification and review of curricular materials and programs that can be used for articulating a complete process curriculum, (2) specification of synthesis tasks by which well designed materials can be augmented to be more effective and better articulated for classroom use, (3) development of teacher…

This is a set of 22 papers written by social studies teachers in Michigan describing innovative approaches in their programs. Robert Trezise's overview states that the programs were developed from both local commitment and funding, and Federal funding. The papers show: 1) a shift away from content per se to a focus on process; 2) concern for the…

The development of American vocational education has evolved to a well-defined program of a practical orientation that has led the vocationally oriented students to define his goal so narrowly that no room is left for reading skills needed in coping with the burgeoning changes and innovations of modern business and industry. The first goal of…

In these opening remarks to conference attendees, problems faced by schools today, and in particular by English teachers, are recounted, and possible solutions are offered. These problems are: student disruption; school governance; student rights; relevance of curriculum; elective programs; student participation in course content selection;…

In this university course for independent study of contemporary American poetry, the following points are brought out: (1) Poetry is essentially formal; (2) Poetry is the product of the conscious mind; (3) Poetry should appeal to the intellect; (4) Poetry is essentially apolitical. In the course of study presented, seven assignments are included:…

The Academic Games program (which aims at developing and testing simulation games for the schools) of the Center for Social Organization of Schools has sponsored this report of the proceedings of the National Gaming Council's Eleventh Annual Symposium. Sessions of the symposium considered simulations and games in education, management,…

Resulting in part from a project designed to identify and describe comprehensive programs of excellence in career education, this curriculum guide is the third in a series describing current, successful career education practices. Intended for teachers in middle schools, this monograph: (1) provides a definition of career education, its…

Two implicit mandates are posited as fundamental to the consideration of any successful evaluation procedure by every instructor in the basic speech course. First, a clear philosophical position must be taken for guiding both the course objectives and the evaluation techniques. Second, a successful method for executing the philosophical position…

Teachers wanting to translate principles into classroom practice are the intended audience for these sample lessons from an English program for young school leavers, i.e., students 11-16 years old. Divided into three approaches (single units, short themes, and longer themes), these samples are drawn from portfolios assembled in workshops held in…