This curriculum guide is designed to help teachers teach a course in fashion merchandising to high school students. The guide contains eight performance-based learning modules, each consisting of one to seven units. Each unit teaches a job-relevant task, and includes performance objectives, performance guides, resources, learning activities,…

The guide suggests activities and resources for teaching home management and maintenance skills to mentally retarded boys and girls. Material is designed for use by both home economics and special class teachers. Broad areas covered include grooming and personality, home management and maintenance, clothing, food, and child care. Each section…

The author offers curriculums, teaching guides, assessment instruments, and course descriptions for teaching independent living skills to handicapped adolescents and young adults. A guide on cooking and eating is designed to teach students how to use cooking utensils, cook healthy meals, plan nutritious meals, shop wisely, and budget food…

Designed for use with educable mentally handicapped girls, the guide stresses the importance of certain homemaking areas. They include grooming and personality, home management, foods and nutrition, clothing, and child care. For each area, an outline of suggested content is provided, specifying sub-units, general objectives, and activities. Sample…

Developmental steps to writing life experience units for the educable retarded are outlined and six units are partially completed. Objectives of the unit, sub-units, core activities, resource materials, vocabulary words, and lesson plans are provided for primary units on school orientation and clothing, intermediate units on grooming and taking a…

One of twenty course guides in the Community Living Skills Guide for the College for Living series, this document provides guidelines and workbook activities for the course, Wardrobe I. The series of courses for developmentally disabled adults is intended to supplement residential programs and to aid in orienting institutionalized persons to…

One of twenty course guides in the Community Living Skills Guide for the College of Living, this document provides guidelines and workbook activities for the course, Wardrobe II. The series of courses for developmentally disabled adults is intended to supplement residential programs and to aid in orienting institutionalized persons to eventual…

Intended for teachers of special classes of educable mentally retarded children aged 6 to 8 (mental age = 3.5 to 4.9), the guide stresses skills necessary to the development of physical, personal and social, and vocational competency. An introduction defines philosophy and goals, outlines the educable mentally retarded program and the readiness…

This is one of twenty course guides in the Community Living Skills Guide for the College for Living series which provides guidelines and workbook activities for the course, Homemaking and Family Living. The series of courses for developmentally disabled adults is intended to supplement residential programs and to aid in orienting institutionalized…