This plan of instruction, lesson plans, workbooks, study guides, and programmed texts for a secondary-postsecondary course for electricians comprise one of a number of military-developed curriculum packages selected for adaptation to vocational instruction and curriculum development in a civilian setting. It contains the first two blocks of a…

This plan of instruction, lesson plans, workbooks, and study guides for a secondary-postsecondary course for electricians comprise one of a number of military-developed curriculum packages selected for adaptation to vocational instruction and curriculum development in a civilian setting. It contains the final three blocks of a five-block course…

This Rate Training Manual and Nonresident Career Course (RTM/NRCC) form a self-study package that will enable Aviation Electrician's (AE) Mates to help themselves fulfill the requirements of their rating. Designed for individual study and not formal classroom instruction, the RTM provides subject matter that relates directly to the occupational…

Three teacher education programs developed at East Texas State University (ETSU) are characterized by a high degree of cooperation. The Bilingual Education Teacher Training Program was established with the collaboration of several departments and three colleges. Graduate and undergraduate degrees are offered in this interdisciplinary field-based…

This document is one of five learning packets on alternative energy developed as part of the descriptive curriculum research project in Arkansas (see note). The overall objectives of the learning packets are to improve the level of instruction in the alternative energies by vocational exploration teachers, and to facilitate the integration of new…

This publication, first in a series of two intended for Utah's elementary teachers, outlines objectives for teaching visual thinking through art concepts. The second part in the series entitled "Art Is Elementary" (ED 158 872) provides teaching strategies and lesson plans for each objective. The subject areas in which the program is intended to be…

This document is a teacher's guide for a unit in tractor and machinery safety for college freshmen. It is intended to be used for 10 hours of instruction for freshmen who are intending to work on or around machinery. Safety hazards directly and indirectly related to many types of machinery are covered in addition to tractors. The objectives of the…

Registration data from six Hawaii community colleges were examined to determine the characteristics of those students enrolled in credit programs during Summer 1981. Data were collected and analyzed on headcount enrollment and students' age; sex; program; status as continuing, new, or transfer students; citizenship; permanent and local residence;…

This teacher's manual provides general and specific guidelines for use of Teams-Games-Tournaments (TGT) Life Science Curriculum materials at the junior high-middle school level. TGT is an innovative instructional model which focuses on the learning of basic skills, information, and concepts, by rewarding students in small teams rather than at the…

Works by European and American educators from the Renaissance to the twentieth century are presented. A historical re-evaluation of foreign-language teaching combined with the scientific approach of modern linguistics can provide valuable insights for current teaching and learning approaches. Selections are presented from the writings of the…

This review of academic programming considers changes that have occurred as a reaction to real or perceived shifts in institutional and social conditions and values, program design, and program approval, review, and evaluation. Among the conditions influencing programming decisions in the late 1970s are open-access policies, affirmative-action…

Papers are presented from the 1975 Society for Research into Higher Education European Symposium on Interdisciplinary (ID) Courses in European Education. Section one of the symposium on "philosophy and background" consists of an introduction by Professor Berger and discussion. Section two on "some ID courses" consists of the…

A study was undertaken to determine what research, principles, and suggested practices in the field of psychology could be found to support development of certain teaching competencies that had been outlined in previous research. The competencies considered are course planning, course content, instructional procedures, learning materials use, and…

Four earlier collections of mathematics objectives grouped according to grade levels have been replaced by objectives organized by subject matter. Material is presented in a logically sequential order within each major heading. Objectives tend to start at the most elementary and progress to the most complex, so that teachers of the lower grades…

In 1971 a study was conducted to determine the impact of 14 national social studies projects in high schools in Kansas and Missouri. Specifically, the study explored degree of teacher familiarity with the projects; extent to which teachers were using project materials; how the materials were being used; how teachers had been introduced to the…