A project was undertaken to develop a model for gender-fair education (GFE) in compulsory English, French, humanities, and philosophy courses in Quebec's Colleges d'Enseignement General et Professionel (CEGEPs), and to test the model's effectiveness in the classroom. First, core teachers at the CEGEP were surveyed to determine how they viewed and…

Called a response draft, this curriculum guide provides practitioners with further opportunity to examine and discuss adult learning in English and communications before the guidelines are adopted throughout British Columbia. The guide's three specific purposes are to (1) define a common curriculum goal and an array of learning objectives for…

The report describes an Iowa project designed to identify reasonable accommodations for learning disabled students in regular secondary classrooms and to develop strategies for implementing classroom modifications. Project activities consisted of: a review of the literature on mainstreaming and classroom modifications; development of a descriptive…

Based on the latest research and theories, this junior high school curriculum guide was prepared for teachers of language arts. Following a statement of the philosophy of the program, teaching objectives are stated for writing, literature, and related skill areas. Other sections include a scope and sequence chart, evaluation and testing…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The seven titles deal with the following topics: (1) the effect of training college students in listening and notetaking skills on learning from lecture, (2) an enriched language arts curriculum for gifted primary school students,…

Ten articles by community college faculty of the State University of New York on instruction-related topics make up this annual publication. First, Harold Cantor argues that the future of community colleges hinges on the development of a cadre of generalists who will foster general education. After the Life Skills Program of Rockland Community…

Based on the idea that the goal of English instruction is to develop language skills that will assist each student in his or her search for identity, in relationships with other people, and in becoming a proficient and sensitive human being, this curriculum guide is divided into two major sections, grades 7 through 9 and grades 10 through 12. In…

This report reviews the status and use of the Time-shared Interactive Computer-Controlled Television (TICCIT), a computer-assisted instructional tool, at Northern Virginia Community College. During 1977-78, 100 terminals were available for student use and 20 for course development and faculty use. Courses available on TICCIT were Algebra I and II…

IT IS NOW THE YEAR 1976, AND CHANGE IN OUR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY A MODERN AMERICAN REVOLUTION. AS ENGLISH BECOMES MORE UNIVERSAL, SO DOES THE ORAL-AURAL METHOD OF TEACHING IT. IN UNITED STATES CLASSROOMS, CHILDREN PRACTICE ORALLY THOSE PATTERNS THEY NEED, EXPERIMENT WITH WORD ORDER, AND GAIN A KNOWLEDGE OF SENTENCE…

The initiation and development of the Queens English Project, a cooperative program between Queens College (New York) and five area high schools that produced a reading/writing curriculum from the junior year of high school through the freshman year of college, is described in this paper. Discussed are the educational principles on which the…

THIS REPORT BY THE COMMISSION ON ENGLISH OF THE COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION BOARD (CEEB) IS BASED UPON 5 YEARS OF STUDY INTO THE SECONDARY SCHOOL ENGLISH PROGRAMS FOR AMERICAN COLLEGE-BOUND STUDENTS IN ORDER TO PROPOSE ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS FOR SUCH STUDENTS AND WAYS OF MEETING THOSE STANDARDS. THE COMMISSION'S 14 PRINCIPAL RECOMMENDATIONS ARE…

Background information on the composition curriculum prepared by the English Curriculum Study Center at the University of Georgia is given in this book. Specific subjects covered include the theoretical basis, objectives, and structure of the curriculum in written composition for grades K-6; the contributions of anthropology, sociology, and…

Today, the content-centered curriculum in English--emphasizing the in-depth, rational study of the nature and structures of literature, language, and rhetoric--is changing under the influence of a "new" English--emphasizing the student's experience and involvement with literature. Thus, although the content-centered reforms of the past decade have…

The project was designed to help high school students with industrial occupational goals achieve practical communication skills necessary for efficient employment entry. Industrial arts and language arts teachers together developed major essential categories for vocational English (reading skills, correspondence skills, reference skills, technical…

Six articles on the problems in planning and executing a high school humanities program are collected here. Wallace Kennedy gives a partial listing of Minnesota teachers and schools that offer humanities in grades 11 and 12. Fred E. H. Schroeder takes up the problems of defining "humanities," selecting good teachers, preparing an interdisciplinary…