In Eugene, Oregon, severely disabled students are successfully integrated into a regular high school program. The school provides support for and acceptance of the disabled students from staff, other students, and the community. (MD)

Career education offers an opportunity for schools to build comprehensive programs that will help handicapped students prepare for independent living. To be successful, programs at the secondary level must include family and community involvement, hands-on activities, systematic assessment, vocational education, and early experience. (JOW)

Successful transition programs for students with learning disabilities have some common elements: job-related academic instruction, interpersonal skills development, vocational education, and follow-along counseling after formal schooling ends. (SK)

Asserts that journalism education provides students with important life skills. Suggests reasons why journalism education is so effective in preparing students for the future. (MS)

Recent curricular innovations in Sri Lanka are prevocational education and life skills, both focusing on the articulation of education with the world of work. The relative success of life skills may be a result of its not being perceived as a threat to or dilution of academic education. (SK)

Although adolescents face many potentially life-threatening choices, schools are ill equipped to offer comprehensive guidance for developing personal survival skills. This article outlines four conditions militating against schools' acceptance of this role, advocates collaboration between schools and community-based youth organizations, and…

This study surveyed teachers at five urban secondary schools regarding attitudes toward social skills training. Although most (82 percent) supported inclusion of social skills training in school curriculum, significant differences were found in willingness to be involved when respondents were categorized according to subject area and the school in…

The newsletter describes a data based classroom for secondary moderately and severely handicapped students. The curriculum is said to reflect a shift from traditional academic to functional skills and leisure time activity, with the classroom environment matching this functional approach. Teaching methods stress modeling, cueing, and correcting…

This yearbook provides materials for Future Homemakers of America (FHA) chapters to use as they build a calendar of activity for the year. It focuses on the theme for the year, "Skills for Life," which emphasizes skills developed through home economics education. These types of materials are provided: the program of work; information on…

The secondary level program of Spring Lake (MI) Public Schools provides services necessary to develop community living skills. Students proceed through three phases: daily living courses (basic academic subjects); prescriptive programing based on the student's needs; and vocational orientation, preparation, and training (including a senior year…

A number of important issues must be addressed during the process of graduation competency identification. Each school system must determine what it means by the term competency before identifying a set of graduation requirements. Graduation competencies may emphasize school subject skills, basic skills, or skills needed in everyday life. Life…

Examination of training by classroom role-play with flashcards, classroom role-playing with slides, or classroom role playing with slides and in-vivo store training revealed a functional relationship between the combined slide and the in-vivo strategy and correct performance across a range of nontrained probe stores for four severely retarded Ss.…

The Secondary Individualized Learning Center at the Lexington (NY) School for the Deaf emphasizes instruction of multiply handicapped students in life skills for survival in an urban environment. The curriculum focuses on independent living and work related skills in a hierarchy of work experiences from volunteer jobs to competitive employment.…

Examples are offered of how the classroom teacher can blend consumer education into typewriting, business English, business math, and other classes by intentionally focusing on principles and concepts or by including it incidentally when the opportunity arises. (TA)

Surveys relevant literature on the question of how people learn through doing drama. Proposes a construct to describe this learning process. Concludes that drama, even more than other storytelling and other fictional processes, employs the world-creating and hypothetical processes some have attributed to basic learning processes, which permeate…