The paper discusses preservice training for educators in the area of child abuse. The relationship between disability and abuse is examined, as is the placement of abused children in special education programs. Analysis of 13 students' questionnaire responses indicated that as a result of a child abuse course, 92% had shared information from the…

PROGRAMS ARE LISTED BY SUBJECT AND PUBLISHER, WITH CONTENT DESCRIPTIONS AND INDICATIONS OF PRICE AND LENGTH. DEVICES ASSISTING IN THE PRESENTATION OF PROGRAMS ARE LISTED BY MANUFACTURER. A REFERENCE SECTION LISTS PERIODICALS, BOOKS, AND OTHER INFORMATION CONCERNING PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION. THIS SECTION PROVIDES RESOURCES FOR PROGRAM EVALUATION.…

The following courses of study in French at the primary level are described and evaluated: (1) "En Avant" (E. J. Arnold, 1966), (2) "Repondez s'il vous plait" (Copp Clark, 1975), (3) "Pour les Tous Petits" (Carleton Board of Education, 1974), (4) "Dansons la Capucine (Clarke Irwin, 1973), and (5) "Le…

Activity in the audiovisual teaching of French to students from Afro-Asiatic countries after the second World War at the Pedagogical Institute of St.-Cloud inspired Professor P. Guberin of Zagreb University to develop a course of 50 lessons for teaching Russian by this method. The use of tapes, films, and textbooks with records is treated here,…

The Rumson-Fair Haven Senior Elective Program was developed and implemented by students, faculty, and administrators over the three-year period from 1971 to 1974. The program offers high school students who complete graduation requirements in the first three years of the four-year program a combination of the following options for the senior year:…

An engineering graphics course offered at North Carolina State University for freshman engineering students is described. The course is divided into 14 units and the students are allowed to proceed at their own pace. The first 11 units comprise the required core; the remaining 3 units may be chosen from other areas such as computer graphics,…

A required senior-level chemical engineering course at Colorado State University is described. The first nine weeks are devoted to the theory portion of the course, which includes the following topics: LaPlace transformations and time constants, block diagrams, inverse transformations, linearization, frequency response analysis, graphical…

This paper describes the development of a course in secondary school reading methods which was designed to meet the diverse needs and objectives of students who intend to become either content specialists or reading specialists. Students are presented with 23 instructional objectives from which they choose the ones which satisfy their objectives.…

This document presents a 2-year post-high school curriculum for paraprofessional school personnel. This document is divided into five sections, which are teacher aide programs, curriculum, course outlines, bibliography, and appendix. Section one discusses some considerations of the program, occupational opportunities, aides and their work, special…

The author has attempted to organize the many materials to be found on doll collecting into a course which will provide a foundation of knowledge for appreciating and evaluating old dolls. The course has been divided into sessions in which old dolls will be studied by type (images, idols, and early playthings; child, doll, and social realities;…

As one of four options under English 105 at Western Michigan University, the course "Writing and Science" is intended to help students become better communicators as they enter college. The first assignments are in technical writing--descriptions of a mechanism, a process or a mechanism in operation, and a behavior. Emphasis in these exercises is…

Questionnaire responses from 187 speech instructors representing 96 junior colleges in the western United States were studied to determine approaches to the basic speech course at these institutions. Such a course is required for graduation at 42 per cent of the institutions; it typically receives three semester units of credit, meets 54 hours per…

This commentary is designed for use with "Unified Modern Mathematics, Course I," Parts 1 and 2. Included in the commentary are statements of the specific purposes and goals of each section of every chapter, suggestions for teaching the concepts presented in each section, time estimates for each section, suggested instructional aids for presenting…

This commentary is designed for use with "Unified Modern Mathematics, Course II," Parts 1 and 2. As in the commentary for "Course I," statements of the specific purposes and goals of each section of every chapter are presented. Also included are suggestions for teaching the concepts presented in each section, time estimates for each section,…

This commentary is to be used with "Unified Modern Mathematics, Course III." Statements of specific purposes and goals of each section of every chapter of Course III are included in the "Commentary." Also included are suggestions for teaching concepts presented in each section; time estimates for each section; suggested instructional aids for…