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Brown, Sandra – 1979
An Adult Basic Education curriculum utilizing community resources to help second language learners cope in real life situations is described. Curriculum topics lasting two to four weeks are studied through the use of speakers, films, real-life materials and field trips. Individual lessons cover: (1) community services, (2) consumer education, (3)…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Citizenship Education, Communicative Competence (Languages), Community Resources
Brantlinger, Ellen; And Others – 1978
The first of two documents designed to provide training for paraprofessionals working with moderately and severely/profoundly handicapped students, the sourcebook provides information on preservice and inservice education. Narrative is presented and activities are described for the following preservice topics (sample subtopics in parentheses):…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Child Advocacy, Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills
Brantlinger, Ellen; And Others – 1978
The second of two documents designed for training paraprofessionals to work with moderately and severely/profoundly handicapped students, the teacher's guide presents information on preservice and inservice education. Preservice information to be read by the paraprofessional touches on the following topics (sample subtopics in parentheses):…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Child Advocacy, Communication Skills, Consumer Education
Clements, Irene; Coffey, Judy – 1977
Eight home economics curriculum areas are presented in this guide, with each area consisting of one or more instructional units as follows: (1) Orientation (orientation to Future Homemakers of America--FHA, FHA in action, parliamentary procedure); (2) Career Exploration (home economics related occupations, locating a job, job success); (3) Child…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Exploration, Child Care, Child Caregivers
Download full textFischer, Louis; Schimmel, David – 1979
The document presents a curriculum module designed to help 11th grade students become intelligent consumers of educational services by focusing on relevant contemporary legal developments. The major goal is to promote students' awareness and understanding of their role as consumers of educational services, their rights and obligations, legal…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Court Litigation, Curriculum Guides
Superka, Douglas P.; And Others – 1978
This sourcebook is a resource guide to help teachers, evaluation specialists, district coordinators, and supervisors in locating and selecting instruments to evaluate various aspects of social studies programs from kindergarten through grade 12. The bulk of the sourcebook comprises analyses of 291 evaluation instruments applicable to social…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Career Education, Classroom Environment, Consumer Education
Shatz, Eunice; And Others – 1968
Designed for use by trainers in preparing unskilled workers with minimum education (at least fourth grade reading ability) for entry as nonprofessionals in human services, this manual is organized around the core of understanding of individual and group behavior and needs and of methods of interviewing or obtaining and recording information needed…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Blacks, Communication Skills, Community Study
Brooks, Thomas M. – 1977
This handbook for trainers in consumer education contains three main sections: content outlines, learning activities, and resource materials. The areas covered by the content outlines are: financial management, consumer credit, and the consumer in the economy. The learning activities section comprises a sampling of the best activities identified…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Course Content, Credit (Finance), Economics Education
Missouri Univ., Columbia. Instructional Materials Lab. – 1992
This guide contains nine units of study for a beginning course in home economics. Units include some or all of the following components: performance objectives, lesson plans, information sheets, transparency masters, handouts, assignment sheets, job sheets, a unit test, and answers to the unit test. All units are competency based and…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Child Development, Clothing Instruction, Competence
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1994
This report describes New Jersey's progress in achieving the goals and objectives outlined in the State Plan for Vocational Education FY 1992-1994. The programs and activities described in the document were conducted during FY 1994 in compliance with the Carl Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1990. The text contains narrative…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adult Education, Career Counseling, Career Guidance
Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Inc., Hartford, CT. – 1994
This competency-based secondary learning guide on strengthening parenting skills is part of a series that are adaptations of guides developed for adult consumer and homemaking education programs. The guides provide students with experiences that help them learn to do the following: make decisions; use creative approaches to solve problems;…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Child Rearing, Competency Based Education, Consumer Education
Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Inc., Hartford, CT. – 1994
This competency-based secondary learning guide on strengthening parenting skills is part of a series that are adaptations of guides developed for adult consumer and homemaking education programs. The guides provide students with experiences that help them learn to do the following: make decisions; use creative approaches to solve problems;…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavioral Objectives, Child Rearing
Hudson River Center for Program Development, Glenmont, NY. – 1994
This document, the second in a series of guidebooks that were developed for educators of homeless adults in New York, offers strategies and plans for sample lessons in which a holistic approach is used to help homeless adults and families improve their lives through education. The guidebook begins with lists of print and nonprint resources,…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Annotated Bibliographies
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. Home Economics Curriculum Center. – 1994
This consumer and family economics curriculum guide was developed for use in home economics education in Texas. At the beginning is a list of the competencies and the subcompetencies that are the essential elements and the subelements prescribed in the Texas Administrative Codes for Vocational Home Economics. The conceptual outline as shown in the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Exploration, Careers, Consumer Economics
Illinois State Council on Vocational Education, Springfield. – 1991
This 3-year follow-up report describes actions taken by the Illinois Council on Vocational Education (ICoVE) during 1989, 1990, and 1991. It addresses the 140 suggestions and 29 recommendations of 12 technical reports (spanning 1987 and 1988) related to education for employment. Recommendations from 1987-88 and follow-up actions are reported on…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agency Cooperation, Consumer Education, Cooperative Programs
