Fifteen students in a Drawing I class at Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College participated in an experimental module on gesture drawing based on operant conditioning theory. Students ranged in age from 18 to 50, all with previous art instruction at the high school level. After responding to questionnaires in which they offered suggestions about…

The course introduces the student to basic and individual styling which is essentially the "heart" of cosmetology. The student becomes aware of the constant changes in hair fashions and is able to meet the challenge of Creative Coiffures. Requiring 135 hours of classroom-laboratory instruction, the course is divided into six…

Permanent curling and straightening require a thorough understanding of hair. Through diligent study and practice the student prepares for a profitable part of a beauty career. The course requires 135 hours of classroom-laboratory instruction. Those entering must have mastered the skills of shaping and conditioning hair. On completion of the…

Requiring 135 hours of classroom-laboratory instruction, the course develops skill in giving facial treatments including all massage manipulations, along with knowing the purpose of facials and of the anatomy and physiology related to it. The application of make-up for all types of skin and facial features is an integral part of the program. The…

The course was developed to instruct students in the use of mechanical and/or electronic printing calculators, electronic display calculators, and rotary calculators to solve special business problems with occupational proficiency. Included in the document are a list of performance objectives, a course content outline, suggested learning…

The feasibility of organizing selected professional development skills and knowledge into a performance-based learning sequence was examined at Oregon State. Six general competency areas were derived for preservice and graduate vocational-industrial inservices teachers. (LBH)

Development of a course designed to help dental students integrate interpersonal and clinical skills to help periodontal patients accept and adhere to long-term self-care regimens is described. An algorithm illustrates to students the process of plaque control and the patient's role. (MSE)

Described is an integrated pathology-pharmacotherapeutics course, designed to correlate specific disease entities with current drug therapy. The course was developed by the College of Pharmacy and Department of Pathology, College of Medicine of the University of Kentucky. Lecture topics are appended. (JMD)

This curriculum guide is designed for use by South Carolina vocational education teachers as a continuing set of lesson plans for a two-year course on welding. Covered in the individual sections of the guide are the following topics: an orientation to welding, oxyacetylene welding, advanced oxyacetylene welding, shielded metal arc welding, TIG…

Consumer Mathematics II is described as a one-year course for students in grades 9-12 who choose not to take an algebra course, but who need to broaden their mathematical understanding and skills. This curriculum guide is designed to be used in conjunction with a planbook and used as a resource in terms of long-range (semester or year) and…

This course outline for industrial electronics, one of a series for teaching vocational industrial shop subjects in public schools, includes basic skills and technical information for the course. It should be supplemented with other complementary and necessary areas of related instruction. Fifteen major blocks, divided into 2 years of instruction,…

This first-grade curriculum guide for health education (Duval County Public Schools, Jacksonville, Florida) is designed according to a comprehensive program (K-12) to assist the student in gaining an intelligent understanding of health as a unity of man's physical, mental, and social well-being. Included in the guide are a course outline, primary…

This teacher's guide contains four units for the farm and family management program, a three-year educational program through which farm families have the opportunity to participate in group and individualized instruction. The program is intended to help provide basic farm and home management information to farm families to meet the changes of the…

This guide, developed for the physics 200, 300 program in Manitoba, is designed to articulate with previous science courses; provide concepts, processes, and skills which will enable students to continue in physics-related areas; and relate physics to practical applications in everyday life. It includes a program overview (with program goals and…

This instructor's guide is for a Psychiatric Aide II course intended to provide Psychiatric Aids Is who have demonstrated expertise in giving basic nursing care to the mentally ill with more advanced nursing interventions and techniques. (It is assumed that all nursing care the aides provide is under the direction of a Registered Nurse.)…