This paper focuses on engaging and enabling educators to play new roles and take new leadership in the paradigm shift between traditional and competency-based education: a system of learning designed to ensure that all learners are prepared with the knowledge, skills and dispositions to be successful lifelong learners. The paper re-envisions…

This annotated bibliography of instructional materials for social studies lists 63 items, along with descriptive information about each item or series. Material are grouped into categories by type: (1) books, (2) reference books, (3) a supplemental text, (4) a workbook, (5) filmstrips, (6) kits, (7) a periodical, and (8) videocassettes. Citations…

This annotated bibliography of instructional materials for social studies lists 85 citations along with descriptive information about each item or series. Citations are grouped into categories by type: (1) books, (2) a book for teacher use, (3) reference books, (4) filmstrips, and (5) videocassettes. Citations are listed alphabetically within each…

This document consists of a teacher's guide for a competency-based course on homestead and gardening skills designed for North Carolina's 11th- and 12th-grade students, and a list of competency test items applicable to the course. The teacher's guide contains course specifications, a list of competency statements, a sheet describing each unit of…

This document contains teacher materials for a 4-unit, 1-year marketing education course in advertising and sales promotion offered in grades 11 and 12 in North Carolina. The preface contains a rationale for the development of the course, a course description, course objectives, a list of the instructional units of the course, and a list of the…

School television programs are keyed by this matrix to social studies competency-based curriculum objectives for grades 9-12. The matrix covers 7 television series. The first 2 series, "Consumer Connection" and "Consumer Squad," each contain 7 programs recommended for grade 9 legal, political, and economic systems studies.…

This guide is intended for use in teaching a semester course for sixth graders in self- and career awareness and career exploration. The course is designed to provide initial career guidance experiences and hands-on exploratory activities in the following areas: self-awareness, decision making, employability skills, orientation to careers, the…

This document contains teachers' materials for a 10-module, 1-semester technology education course in product design offered in grades 11 and 12 in North Carolina. The document begins with a rationale for the development of the course; an explanation of the elements in an instructional system; a rationale for the course; a description of the…

North Carolina revised its "Standard Course of Study" in 1985 to reflect the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to function in an industrial age. The entrance into what is being called the information age brings new challenges in preparing students with new skills in the areas of creative thinking, problem solving, interpersonal…

This handbook on guidance is one of several subject-area curriculum guides resulting from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction's efforts to revise the "North Carolina Standard Course of Study" and to develop the "Teacher Handbook" for the competency-based curriculum. The background, overview, philosophy, and…

This volume of the "Teacher Handbook," a product of the extensive audit and revision of curriculum carried out by the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction in 1984 in order to develop a basic education program for the state's public schools presents a competency-based curriculum in library/media and computer skills.…

An integrated competency-based course of study in the sciences is provided in the handbook for North Carolina teachers of grades K-12. Recommended goals, objectives, and suggested measures for each subject and skill area related to the sciences are outlined. This guide contains: (1) an introduction (defining North Carolina's basic educational…

This curriculum guide has been developed as a resource for teachers (especially in North Carolina) to use in planning and implementing a competency-based instructional management technology program in their schools. The guide contains three main section. The first section contains introductory materials and a course blueprint that lists the…

After the passage of the North Carolina Elementary and Secondary School Reform Act of 1984, curriculum revision began. This handbook provides a detailed and integrated basic course of study for the revised curriculum in mathematics for grades K-12. The philosophy and rationale for the entire curriculum are first discussed, followed by sections on…

This curriculum guide was developed as a resource for teachers to use in planning and implementing a competency-based instructional program on food science in the 11th and 12th grades. It contains materials for a 2-semester course, based on the North Carolina Program of Studies (revised 1992); it is designed to help students learn about the…