This third in a series of twelve modules presents strategies to promote sex equity in art. The first of five sections provides suggestions for teacher organization/management with or without student interaction. These strategies include aids to facilitate lesson preparation and program implementation. The following four sections present strategies…

This fourth in a series of twelve modules presents strategies to promote sex equity in language. The first of five sections provides suggestions for teacher organization/management with or without student interaction. These strategies include aids to facilitate lesson preparation and program implementation. The following four sections present…

This study determines that adolescents' attitudes toward older persons, while not negative as originally supposed, can be changed in a more positive direction through planned educational experiences. Situational and personal characteristics account for variance in pretest attitudes evidenced toward the aged. The study was conducted on ninth-grade…

One of a series of teaching guides produced by the Wisconsin Writing Project, this booklet focuses on suggestions for teaching reading and writing in elementary, middle, and high school language arts classrooms. The first section offers 16 reading/writing activities, a list of topics for language experience stories, and an annotated list of…

This collection contains lessons in 4 subjects related to learning: (1) visual perception; (2) learning; (3) cognitive growth; and (4) moral development. Activities dominate each lesson and students are expected to do some experimentation outside the classroom. Each of the 20 lessons presents: (1) a synopsis; (2) objectives; (3) necessary…

This book is for both elementary school teachers and students. Suggestions are provided for the teacher on ways to organize time, space, and materials with the emphasis on individualized instruction for the pupils. Materials for the students include activities and small questionnaires structured to reveal to the teacher each child's attitudes,…

This Child Development Associate (CDA) training module enables CDA interns to identify, prescribe, plan and implement activities and lessons which foster the development of gross motor skills in young children. At a satisfactoy level of proficiency the trainee will be able to identify levels of gross motor maturation, select appropriate equipment,…

The purpose of this guide is to offer possible answers to questions concerning popular culture that teachers might have and to offer suggestions on utilizing popular culture materials that are available. Lesson plans are presented using materials from advertising, newspapers, comics, film, television, popular music, radio, popular literature,…

This guide to teaching composition through fieldwork is the result of research on student writing similar to Eliot Wigginton's "Foxfire" magazine and other regional products. Following a review of the literature, a step-by-step guide to gathering support from both the school administration and the community for a fieldwork writing…

This guide provides information on the Lao language and alphabet for teachers of English to ethnic Lao refugees. Twenty-seven English pronunciation lessons dealing with the particular problems of Lao speakers learning English are included. Lao words are written in a phonetic Roman alphabet. An annotated bibliography of resources is appended. (JB)

THIS COURSE OUTLINE IS FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF THE HONOLULU COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM STAFF. IT DESCRIBES THE PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF ERIC (WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE CLEARINGHOUSES FOR JUNIOR COLLEGES AND VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION), THE SOURCES OF ITS MATERIALS, THE METHODS OF DISTRIBUTION, COSTS, AVAILABILITY OF DOCUMENTS, ETC. IT INCLUDES…

The document consists of three parts--an instructional bulletin for teachers of urban junior high school students with average and below average reading ability, a book of readings, and three novelettes prepared for these students. The bulletin offers guidelines on the ways to use the readings and suggestions for teaching literature to urban…

To furnish a curriculum guide for teachers of English as a second language, this manual explains the principles, sound and structure patterns, the vocabulary range, and the basic cultural and orientation information necessary to teach adults. To aid the teacher, such information as how adults learn, criteria for placing students by grade level,…

This teacher's guide for the SMSG text materials for grade 1 considers ten chapters: sets and numbers, numerals and the number line, sets of ten, introduction to addition and subtraction, recognizing geometric figures, place value and numeration, addition and subtraction, arrays and multiplication, partitions and rational numbers, and linear…

Detailed lesson plans are provided in this teacher's guide for the SMSG text materials for grade 2. Included are chapters on sets and numbers (review), addition and subtraction (review), sets of points, addition and subtraction (extension), linear measurement, computing sums and differences, congruence of angles and triangles, arrays and…