THE PURPOSE OF THIS INTERIM UNIT IS TO ASSIST TEACHERS AND PUPILS IN MAKING THE TRANSITION TO A CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS PROGRAM FROM THE PRESENT PROGRAM. TO ENABLE STUDENTS TO MAKE THIS TRANSITION MORE EASILY, EACH UNIT IS BASED ON FAMILIAR CONCEPTS, DEVELOPS GRADUALLY, AND IS DIRECTED TOWARD CERTAIN FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES. CHILDREN SHOULD BE…

The guide is intended as a stimulus for the establishment of training programs for newly employed attendants and as an aid to the development of on-going in-service training. The instructor should select those subject areas which meet the needs of the institution and its residents. It is expected that additions and deletions will be made. The body…

The third of three reports on Project SEARCH (Search for Exceptional Abilities Reachable among Children with Handicaps) contains 28 lesson plans designed to develop the creative/productive thinking processes in handicapped children. It is explained that the activities are the products of cooperation between professional artists and special…

The nineteen lessons in this unit, designed to foster the practice and use of the basic skills of group discussion, were prepared for use by high school juniors and seniors who have had practice in effective speaking by preparing and delivering short talks. Each lesson outlines the objectives, content, procedure, reading assignment, and materials…

This guide is intended to provide the teacher of secondary school physical science classes with a source of information about recent applications, discoveries, and innovations in aerospace. Each section of the guide is subdivided into parts in which objectives are listed, background information for the use of the teacher and/or the student is…

Three studies designed to enable city elementary school children to investigate, discover, and relate to their environment are outlined. Specific objectives, lists of materials, and preparation needed for each study are given. The first study orients the child and school in the community. The second study locates existing parks and play areas.…

A total of 447 annotated references pertaining to instructional design, course planning, and training program administration are organized under the following headings: (1) Learning Theory Applied to Instruction, (2) Planning: lesson planning, course design, and curriculum development; programing instruction; determining needs; developing and…

The guide was developed to aid teachers in grades 1-6 in integrating career information into their existing curriculum. Included in the guide is a rationale for the Leflore County School District Career Education Program, the responsibilities of the personnel involved in the program, a curriculum outline for each grade, sample career activities,…

Presented are lesson plans for a unit on color discrimination for trainable mentally retarded (TMR) children. An introduction describes TMR children and the major educational objectives of self care, social adjustment, and economic usefulness. Criteria of effective units such as relationship to real life situations are listed. Specific unit…

In view of the well-known disadvantages of lecturing, and the practicability of teaching without them, why does lecturing remain the standard method in universities? To increase the chances of lectures being good, they should be fewer, and to offset their deficiencies they should be regarded as only one component of a combination of methods used…

This curriculum guide represents an interim revision of the twelfth-grade English Literature course which will be re-examined after the total Secondary English Programme is revised. It is planned for students who wish to survey the course and to encourage students to study more thoroughly the works of certain authors. The objectives of the course…

This booklet provides instruction, for the director of junior high and senior high school plays, in the effective arrangement of characters on stage. Suggested exercises include the construction of still-picture tableaux on stage (using scenes from fairy tales and Chekhov's "The Bear") and the implementation of "blocking"…

Describes a nine-step workshop approach to short-story writing, providing collaborative criticism and multiple audiences for students' writing. (AA)

Teaching ideas for various aspects of English and the language arts. (AA)

Described is Project Memphis, a curriculum model which contains 260 structured lesson plans which parents, paraprofessionals, and volunteers can use with developmentally delayed preschoolers. (CL)