The guide is for the use of teachers in the areas of business and office occupations, grades 7-12. It focuses on recommended curriculum offerings and accountability levels for business and office occupations subjects and represents an effort to promote articulation and communication among the various educational settings in the State. The subjects…

This report is an attempt to establish a statewide philosophy of education for Montana and to recommend methods for incorporating that philosophy at the State, local, and classroom levels. Twenty-two separate recommendations are made for implementing the educational philosophy developed by the Montana Board of Education, and much of the report is…

In this document, the president of Seattle Central Community College presents the mission statements for the college and for each major unit of the college, i.e., the units of Instruction, Administrative Services, Student Personnel Services, Community Relations and Information Services, and the President. Each unit has been required to establish…

Early childhood education is defined as group settings which are deliberately intended to effect developmental changes in children in the age range from birth up to the age of entering first grade. The following parameters of early childhood education are proposed and explored: (a) characteristics of clients, (b) characteristics of teachers and…

Twenty-three lectures by Charlton Laird, read at institutes and conventions over the past 25 years, deal with such areas in language, literature, and composition as "Trouble in Linguistic Paradise;""A Simpleminded Look at Grammar and Language;""Goldilocks and the Three or More Rhetorics;""More About Creative Writing;""The Case for Casebooks: One…

A prognosis of the possible state of the art of language instruction during the 70's suggests that new programs combined with new media and different attitudes may save this facet of American education from extinction. A review of the golden decade in foreign language instruction, the 1960's, discusses the role of the American Council of Teachers…

The contributions of education in the cultural arts to students in the Fresno City Unified School District are evaluated as part of PROJECT DESIGN, funded under ESEA Title III. There are at least four areas or domains in which artistic learning is possible and which can be used to formulate elements in an arts curriculum. These are the productive,…

Three unproven assumptions may account for the expository teaching used in new social studies which are designed for inductive teaching. 1) It is assumed that teachers and pupils ask questions of a high cognitive level, whereas research and informal observation support the opposite view. 2) Discovery learning requires a pure inductive strategy. 3)…

The development of understandings, attitudes, and appreciation appropriate for selected state and local vocational-technical educators, guidance personnel, general educators, and federal personnel with potential responsibilities for residential vocational education programs comprised the focus of this conference. Major issues related to…

Adult education in rural areas in Australia provides a contrast both in its general mood and intentions and in its organization with that in the United States. Particularly in rural areas, there seems to be less of the compulsion to organize groups (there are usually no school boards, no chambers of commerce, no women's clubs, no youth centers)…

With the computer and the environments it makes possible, the author feels, we are on the threshold of being able to coalesce the study of learning and the prescription of instruction. To accomplish this, however, man must change his egocentric views concerning the value of traditional education. In the future, he predicts, an interdisciplinary…

The purpose of this guide is to encourage the development of humanities programs at the high school level so that students, through acquaintance with the thoughts, creations, and actions of past and present men in every area of knowledge, will think about the values of freedom and responsibility in relation to themselves. Not intended as a course…

Career education is one possible response to 11 criticisms of the present educational system centering on relationships and lifestyles of individuals. The response can be made through the use of the concept of work. "Work" is defined as conscious effort, other than that involved in activities whose primary purpose is either coping or relaxation,…

The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between the theories of B.F. Skinner and Carl R. Rogers. In sections 2 and 3, the author discusses the Skinnerian and Rogerian theories by selecting and explicating key elements and delineating the general, comprehensive, theoretical position of each. Sections 4 and 5 present each man's…

This book deals with the practice of teaching, the effects of teaching on the personalities of pupils, and the effect teaching has on society. The chapters are each written by an expert in a particular field and are grouped into six sections. "Bird's-Eye Views" discusses the ways in which English teaching has changed and is changing on the…