Guidelines for teaching consumer and homemaking education which emphasize actual experiences by the learner are presented. The contents of the document were chosen from learning activities and experiences which were proven successful in the classroom. The guide consists of seven sections: (1) community involvement; (2) consumer decision…

This booklet, one of a series of 34 on promising programs in childhood education prepared for the White House Conference on Children, December 1970, describes the Philadelphia Teacher Center--a staff development program which provides a place where teachers can make things for their classrooms and exchange ideas with others. The Center provides…

This set of mathematics instructional materials are examples of how a teacher can integrate career education into math. Six topics related to the career education concept are featured. "Sample Math Problems" was written for a class studying about jobs in a bakery, and the problems are ones that would be encountered in a bakery. "Careers as Related…

Criterion-referenced testing is designed to determine the student's ability to perform a specified skill within a comprehensive task. To measure the student's degree of development or growth, a teacher-made test is used. This test is used as criterion-referenced in the measuring of a student's degree of achievement of specified behaviors within a…

Community and area resources -- consisting of persons, places, or objects -- gathered from the regions comprising Chenango, Delaware, and Otsego Countries, are listed in this directory. Teachers, local historians, and PROBE staff identified resources which could be introduced to K-12 teachers. In addition to a brief introduction, the book contains…

A card used by the Cambridge Junior High School (Minnesota) to advise parents of the pupil's progress is provided. The card is based on 100 total points which are divided into several categories to reveal a student's academic and social progress. The categories are: test results, lab work, daily work, discipline in class, attitude toward subject,…

Production of transparencies on an overhead projector can be very helpful in improving instruction. Techniques for producing transparencies either by hand or on a copy machine are covered visually in this handbook. Advantages of overhead projection are listed first; then the operation, cleaning, and maintenance of overhead projectors are covered.…

Tells how teacher developed books increased students' motivation to read. (RB)

Describes the development of a teacher resource center for early childhood educators sponsored by the Chicago Association for the Education of Young Children (CAEYC). (CM)

A set of simple directions is presented to help teachers decide which objectives to pursue and which methods to use in teaching the metric system. (MP)

Discusses the use of educational games in the classroom; shows how to construct games and devise game rules. (GW)

Presents a teacher-developed handout intended to serve as a vehicle for discussion and the primary means of teaching the concept of ethnocentrism. The handout describes a fictitious foreign culture. (Author/AV)

Reports on a study involving 12 industrial educators who were provided case studies describing two disabled students and asked to write an individualized educational program for one student based on a nonobjective curriculum and for the other using an objective curriculum. The latter programs matched more closely the established criteria. (CH)

This list of practical and useful ideas is compiled from veteran teachers for motivating students, making a dull subject more interesting, or making a difficult subject easier to understand. (MT)