This instructor's guide outlines a model program designed to provide middle school students with an opportunity to participate in exploratory activities regarding the world of work and to understand the relationships between education and work. Described in the first part of the manual are the following futures week activities: a job interviewing…

This curriculum consists of guidelines for teaching a comprehensive home economics course for grades 9 and 10, an outline of competencies and learner outcomes, a resource list, addresses of publishers, and a series of learning activities to supplement the course learning modules. Addressed in the units are the following topics: coping with today,…

A SUPPLEMENT TO THE INVENTORY OF PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES IN READING AND ENGLISH PUBLISHED IN FEBRUARY 1966 IS PRESENTED. A NEW TOPICAL INDEX WAS ADDED WHICH SHOULD INCREASE THE USEFULNESS OF THE SUPPLEMENT. PROGRAMS, PROJECTS, AND ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO EVALUATE AND TO IMPROVE THE TEACHING OF READING AND ENGLISH IN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES ARE…

This brochure provides college preparation suggestions for students with visual impairments in junior and senior high school. Each section includes a checklist of activities to be accomplished during a given grade in preparation for college. The 11th grade and 12th grade sections have a month-to-month guide. Recommended activities include:…

PROGRAMS, PROJECTS, AND ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO EVALUATE AND TO IMPROVE THE TEACHING OF READING AND ENGLISH IN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES ARE DESCRIBED BRIEFLY. THE DESCRIPTIONS OF PROGRAMS ARE ARRANGED BY STATE AND BY LEVEL OF INSTRUCTION. THE NAMES AND AFFILIATIONS OF RESPONSIBLE PERSONNEL ARE INDICATED CLEARLY. THE INVENTORY INCLUDES INFORMATION ON…

This curriculum guide on career exploration for ninth and tenth grade teachers is designed as an experimental curriculum to facilitate the interfacing of career education concepts with the instructional program goals in individual school situations. This guide begins with several short sections discussing the career education continuum, Ohio's…

GRADES OR AGES: Grade K-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Language arts. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide has seven sections: 1) listening (K-12); 2) speaking (K-12); 3) reading (K-12); 4) writing (K-12); 5) special areas, including speech, dramatics, debate, creative writing, Latin, Spanish, French, German, journalism, and reading efficiency,…

GRADES OR AGES: K-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into three sections, one each for elementary grades, middle grades, and high school. The first two sections are further subdivided by grade level and the last section is subdivided by course. Sections are laid out in four columns across…

The purpose of this study is to examine an Africentric rite of passage program's impact on African-American male high school students. It is intended to determine whether a rite of passage program will affect attendance, discipline and achievement. The study also investigates the development of a school-based Africentric program as well as its…

Oregon is raising its expectations for students. The current academic standard, which allows students to graduate with only a D-minus average in 22 credit hours of classes, is being replaced by the requirement that students prove that they are proficient in English, mathematics, science, history, and other academic subjects. Students will…

In its first year, the 1987 Bilingual Program for Eleventh and Twelfth Graders provided mostly over-age, limited-English-speaking students with an opportunity for more timely graduation through instruction in English as a second language (ESL) and content-area instruction in the summer. Eligibility requirements included limited English proficiency…

Project Discovery is a community-based educational intervention program for low income and minority students. It operates outside the traditional public education system. The following projects comprise the program: (1) Project Discovery for ninth to eleventh graders, which is a College Option Orientation program; and (2) Discovery Groups for…

This curricular framework for the subject area section, Cooperative Vocational Education for Grades 9-12 is one of eight Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools (MCPS) Programs of Studies. A foreword discusses Curriculum and Instruction, Use of the Program of Studies, Curriculum Change and Modification of the Program of Studies, State and…

The current investigation was an exploration of the first year of a multi-year project designed to provide every Grade 3 to Grade 11 student throughout an English school board in Quebec with a laptop computer. Data were collected from 403 elementary and 270 secondary students from the experimental school board and also from 330 students in the…

This competency-based curriculum for prevocational exploration in West Virginia provides experiences at grades 9 and 10 related to exploring careers and educational programs for those careers. The guidance units are designed to assist the counselor in providing activities that relate to ongoing hands-on activities in prevocational business,…