This guide is intended as a resource manual and activity sourcebook for elementary school teachers, librarians, administrators, curriculum planners, and teacher educators for teaching proper methods for selecting, using, maintaining, and disposing of flammable products and ignition sources. Basic product safety messages are developed for matches,…

One of five sections of materials for a program to change teacher attitudes toward career education, the leader's guide presents a plan for a three-day teacher inservice workshop involving role playing by both dissonant and consonant groups. The dissonant group consists of persons with low change orientation who assume roles advocating career…

The activities and suggestions presented in this document for developing students' writing skills are based on fifteen ideas outlined at the beginning of the book. Part one, focusing on writing within the English course, suggests activities for the following: using reproductions of primary sources, writing directed to a specific and significant…

This handbook of group procedures presents classroom activities that are designed to assist elementary school children in learning more about themselves and others, and to provide them with experiences in interpersonal communication. More specifically, the group procedures are intended to facilitate growth in several developmental areas: (1) the…

This teaching module is part of a set of materials designed to provide educators with activities infusing career education concepts into existing curriculum for the K-6 grade level. Building on the foundation laid in the teaching module dealing with transactional strategies in interpersonal relationships on the K-3 grade level, this module focuses…

The 35 exercises presented in this paper have been designed to simulate real-life experiences involving the process of persuasion and to enhance understanding of the persuasive process. Among the aspects of the persuasive process dealt with are the identification of persuasive events, emotive language, language intensity, source credibility,…

An exercise is presented that is designed as a training aid for junior administrative and/or academic staff in their first 6 years of service in universities. It is intended to help participants think about management principles in general while trying out their own ideas for solving the specific problems outlined. It will also permit individuals…

The primary purpose of this book is to provide a practical working handbook for teachers and therapists. Chapter one is a general discussion of drama, with emphasis on its relevance to therapeutic work. Chapter two offers practical suggestions for starting a therapeutic session and for creating and extending specific environments. Chapter three…

This booklet presents three brief papers which focus on movement activities, transition activities, and incorporating parental assistance in preschool classrooms. "Let's Get Moving" suggests many circle, imagery, and mime exercises, for individuals, pairs, or groups of children. "Tips on Handling Transition Times" offers…

In introducing drama into the elementary classroom it is wise to start by having children portray that which they have experienced. First attempts should be short and simple with later attempts more complex and of longer duration. The first section of this bulletin offers numerous types of preliminary activities. The remainder of the booklet…

This document is a learning module developed for graduate level students in the field of teaching learning disabled children. The module consists of a pre-assessment, three element/activity groups, and a post-assessment. The terminal goal is the ability, given appropriate assessment data, to identify a child's modality strengths and weaknesses,…

A brief overview describes a study in which high school students were taught to deal effectively with "critical incidents" in a pre-parenting program. The program described involved pretest; training in anger control, alternative responses to stress, and appropriate responses to behaviors; and posttesting. The study found students could be taught…

The information and strategies in this notebook consist of research data and strategies designed to implement educational change related to sexual and racial limitations. This project is a collection of existing materials and strategies that can be used by classroom teachers and staff development planners. This packet also contains background…

Ten lessons provide techniques for teaching about conflict in grades kindergarten through six. These lessons, developed to accompany the teaching guidelines outlined in SO 009 795, illustrate how the guidelines might be used in any elementary social studies classroom. Five sample lessons are described for each of two levels: grades K-3 and grades…

This paper describes a classroom activity to demonstrate to undergraduate psychology students studying learning principles the principle of negative reinforcement. The students (n=25) were either enrolled in an introductory psychology course at a business college or the students (n=21) were enrolled in an educational psychology course at a state…