Three papers on home economics education which were presented at a teacher education leadership conference on the development of common core curriculum for vocational education teachers are contained in this booklet. The title and authors are as follow: "Non-Degree Inservice Education Program," by Delores Allenspach; "Job Training Teaching Methods…

As a part of the general project investigating how home economics teachers can adapt their teaching methods and materials to the special needs students, this individualized instructional guide is designed to provide practical information, suggestions, and guidance for the classroom teacher. Following a brief description of special needs students,…

A history of food gathering and food preparation techniques of Alaska natives on Atka Island in the Aleutians are presented in Western Aleut and English with illustrations by J. Leslie Boffa and Mike Dirks. Directions are given for preparing: various plants, including wild rice; salted, dried, or smoked fish; baked flour; fried dough; boiled…

Intended for use by teachers on the junior high and high school levels, this curriculum guide, which is one in a series of guides for consumer and homemaking education in Kentucky, outlines four courses in the clothing and textile areas. Starting at the seventh grade level in Unit 1, the topics and instruction increase in complexity from one unit…

The teacher's guide is the first in a series of three developed for primary and early intermediate levels. The learning experiences focus on helping students to develop an understanding of the family as an economic unit, to acquire elementary classification skills, to appreciate the priority families must place on satisfying basic economic needs,…

The guide is one of a series for a statewide career education development project in Hawaii, based on a conceptual framework encompassing grades K-14. An introductory section in each guide includes directions for users; rationale for the project; a conceptual model (areas of individual growth, sequences of experience, and components of the…

The guide is one of a series for a Statewide career education development project in Hawaii, based on a conceptual framework encompassing grades K-14. An introductory section in each guide includes directions for users; rationale for the project; a conceptual model (areas of individual growth, sequences of experience, and components of the…

The booklet prints the following papers delivered at a national conference: Actualizing Concepts in Home Management: Decision Making, Dorothy Z. Price; Innovations in Teaching: Ergonomics, Fern E. Hunt; Relevant Concepts of Home Management: Innovations in Teaching, Kay P. Edwards; Standards in a Managerial Context, Florence S. Walker; Organizing:…

The curriculum guide presents an objective-based vocational guidance program for disadvantaged students, K-12, offering local school districts in Pennsylvania a guidance model that may be modified to individual school settings in response to local and individual needs. Explicit, sequential learning modules are presented for grade level groupings…

These activities are part of a series of 17 teacher-developed instructional activities for geography at the secondary-grade level described in SO 009 140. The activity involves students in the use of maps as a source of information about American social and economic history. It outlines six learning activities which employ inductive methods. Given…

The purpose of the subject area guide is to present clothing and textiles in the perspective of family living and to relate clothing and textiles to a variety of life styles. Initial emphasis is placed on curriculum planning and the taxonomy of educational objectives. Skills in clothing construction are developed throughout the four homemaking…

Examples of effective economics teaching from kindergarten through college, contained in this 11th volume of the Joint Council for Economic Education series, are selected from the 1972-73 entries in the Kazanjian Foundation Awards Program for the teaching of economics. Arranged by grade level, 22 descriptions of original teacher-developed projects…

The supplement, a product of an elementary school district career education workshop, has been designed to assist the classroom teacher in integrating career education into the social studies curriculum. Focus is on eight future-oriented elements or themes that promote developmental growth, interaction, and decision-making skills: career…

This is the third of seven resource units for a twelfth grade course on value conflicts and policy decisions. The topic for this unit is the underdeveloped countries. The objectives are listed as to generalizations, skills, and values. The double-page format relates objectives to pertinent content, teaching procedures, and instructional materials.…

Documents announced with VT numbers only in the Volume 6, Number 4 issue of "Abstracts of Instructional Materials in Vocational and Technical Education" (AIM) are included in this microfiche set. Microfiche availability for these documents is shown in the AIM resume as MF AVAILABLE IN VT-ERIC SET. The microfiche set is arranged in the following…