The resource guide for language arts teachers at the secondary level attempts to provide continuous progress through individualized instruction and the integration of career education with curriculum concepts. The purposes of the guide are to complement the regular language arts program, to serve as a source of ideas and activities, to achieve…

The College Entrance Examination Board's Decision-Making Program is a course of study in the development of decision-making skills, designed for students in junior and senior high schools. It consists of student and leader materials that may serve as a basis for a school guidance program, as a major component for a school-wide decision-making…

The problem of finding adequately prepared teachers in public schools is determined to be directly related to school size and grade level in this study. Tables illustrating this principle are derived from a state-wide survey of Iowan junior and senior high schools concerning teaching assignments in the communicative arts during the first semester…

This book utilizes principles of curriculum development established by research findings and by tested experiences of teachers throughout the country. Part 1 treats the adolescent and his world from the viewpoints of both the teen-ager and the teacher. Part 2 focuses on the language arts program: (1) designing the program, (2) building…

This curriculum guide, developed for pre-kindergartners through grade 12 as part of the total English curriculum, is concerned with the English language as it is now known and as it evolved from its Indo-European roots. Materials include (1) an overview of the origin and development of the English language from Old English through middle English…

GRADES OR AGES: K-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Teaching English dialects. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into four sections of learning experiences--prekindergarten-grade 3, grade 4-grade 6, grade 7-grade 9, and grade 10-grade 12. Each section deals with selected knowledge, specific learning, and learning experiences. There are…

The teaching of English as a developing concept extending from kindergarten through graduate study is discussed in this book. The goal is to define the fundamental structure of English as a discipline and to develop a theory of structured integration for the curriculum which is sufficiently standard for all English planning but flexible enough to…

This curriculum outline reflects the current program in elementary language arts in the more exemplary classrooms in Hawaii. The program is described under four headings--reading, writing, literature, and speech. For reading and writing, individual skills to be mastered are listed for both lower and upper elementary grades. For literature, general…

There are 62 abstracts in this compilation describing research and experimental teaching using television and film methods in college English instruction. The studies, most of them conducted since 1950, cover: (1) a comparison of televised instruction with face-to-face presentation, (2) a comparison of filmed or kinescoped courses with direct…

A three year project aimed at providing equal educational opportunity for all students in the seven high schools of Etowah County, Alabama by implementing a county-wide curriculum using a flexible, rotating schedule, audio-graphic network, instructional television, a learning center, and individualized instruction. The report rates the project as…

For generations teachers have tried to teach the approved "classics" of our culture. Today, with the mass media claiming so much of students' time and interest, this approach is more than ever doomed to failure. A better plan is to focus on popular culture: comic books, popular fiction (westerns, horror tales, and science fiction), movies, and…

These guidelines are part of a total curricular program K-12 developed for use in the elementary and secondary schools of the Diocese of Cleveland. Objectives for the study of the communication arts in these grades are listed as follows: (1) Listening with attention, discrimination, and empathy, (2) Viewing with perception, discrimination, and…

Four professionals in English instruction envision a future that contains a 10,000-student secondary school teaching only English language arts, a school where tutors help students learn independently; achieves balance between teaching and institutional ideals of curriculum for basal readers; addresses the writing movement, keyboard instruction,…

This collection of 18 essays explores how English teaching at both secondary and postsecondary levels can be made more relevant to work. Titles and authors are as follows: "Of Work and English" (Mary Sue Garay); "Toward a Working English for Twenty-First Century Schools and Colleges" (Mary Sue Garay); "Work in Transition: Trends and Implications"…

Reviews efforts to develop national content standards for teaching English. Today's standards movements are distinguished from earlier efforts in that the learner is recognized as active, the meaning is socially and historically contingent, and the purpose is the development of language for political power and the creation and appreciation of…