This Ohio Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP), derived from a modified Developing a Curriculum (DACUM) process, is a current comprehensive and verified employer competency program list for graphic communications--commercial photography. Each unit (with or without subunits) contains competencies and competency builders that identify the…

This curriculum guide was developed to help trade and industrial education teachers (especially in Louisiana) improve their graphic arts course. The guide provides a course description and content outline for a 1-year course to be taught in grades 10-12. Preliminary matter includes a course flowchart, prerequisite, goals and objectives, time…

Summaries of 18 conference presentations on diverse topics related to outdoor education are collected in this combination journal and newsletter, which also covers conference events and organizational business. Presentation summaries--generally one or two pages in length--provide highlights of the presentations as well as some guidelines for…

Arranged into 26 sections, this curriculum guide provides high school teachers with a competency based approach to teaching art education. Following a statement of appreciation, the philosophy and goals for art education in Maryland are presented. An excerpt from Edmund Feldman's "Varieties of Visual Experience" discusses aesthetic expression.…

This comprehensive and verified employer competency list was developed from a modified DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) process involving business, industry, labor, and community agency representatives from Ohio. This competency list contains 16 units (with or without subunits), competencies, and competency builders that identify the occupational,…

The 10 articles (and introduction by Stephen Reuys) in this journal discuss issues of adult literacy/adult basic education from a variety of perspectives. Titles and authors are as follows: "The Boston Adult Literacy Initiative: Moving beyond Initiative" (Silja Kallenbach); "Project FOCUS: Writing through Pictures" (Beatriz M. Strohmeyer); "The…

This guide is intended for use in teaching a graphic communications systems. The course has been designed to provide students with an opportunity to assess audiences; design, produce, and deliver printed and photographic messages; and analyze the impacts of these messages. The first two sections discuss the guide's development within the framework…

This publication contains both a teacher edition and a student edition of materials for a course in graphic arts that covers the process camera, stripping, and platemaking. The course introduces basic concepts and skills necessary for entry-level employment in a graphic communication occupation. The contents of the materials are tied to measurable…

This module is the fourth of five in the Commercial Art series. The curriculum guide is designed for competency-based teaching and testing. Within this module on computer graphics are six instructional units. A cross-reference table reveals how the instructional components of the module relate to Missouri competencies. Each unit includes some or…

This guide presents the standard curriculum for technical institutes in Georgia. The curriculum addresses the minimum competencies for a printing/graphics technology program. It includes specializations in art and copy preparation, prepress/image assembly, and lithographic press operations. The guide contains four major sections. The General…

This volume contains 47 papers presented under the following four major categories: (1) "Visual Literacy and Education," including curriculum development, teaching visual literacy, thinking skills and visual literacy, teaching video production techniques, teacher education, cable television in public schools, using filmstrips in the classroom to…

This Ohio Competency Analysis Profile (OCAP), derived from a modified Developing a Curriculum (DACUM) process, is a current comprehensive and verified employer competency program list for graphic communications--graphic arts. Each unit (with or without subunits) contains competencies and competency builders that identify the occupational,…

This instructional kit outlines procedures for implementing Project PARTnership, a program for teaching students with disabilities greater self-determination skills through specifically designed arts experiences. An introductory section describes key project activities, including establishing a site steering committee comprised of teachers,…

This course of study was developed for intermediate and junior high students in the Defiance (Ohio) public schools who are talented and gifted in the visual arts, providing for an in-depth and sequential development of skills and concepts. The program's philosophy stresses that, while the products of the arts are important, a need exists to…

This science curriculum is an activity-oriented program in which an attempt has been made to provide sufficient information for non-science specialists to enable them to offer an effective course at the grades 10 and 11 levels. This curriculum offers a solution to the unique needs of life in the Canadian Northwest Territories. The role of…