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An Exploratory Study Of The Family Centered Homemaking Program For The Ninth Grade, Kathleen Louise (Cadieu) Carlson
An Exploratory Study Of The Family Centered Homemaking Program For The Ninth Grade, Kathleen Louise (Cadieu) Carlson
Graduate Student Research Papers
The modern goal of home economics education is a curriculum centered about the family as it lives, works, and plays in a time of rapid social, economic, scientific, and world change. Many schools present home economics as cooking and sewing. It seems evident that home economics education, to meet needs in today's families and prepare young people for assuming responsibilities as future homemakers, must plan programs of greater depth and breadth than those of the past. This paper will (1) explore possible means of coordinating and integrating the specific area of family relationships with the general home economics curriculum and …
The Principal's Role As A Curriculum Leader, Richard Allen Cash
The Principal's Role As A Curriculum Leader, Richard Allen Cash
Graduate Student Research Papers
This paper will attempt to (1) explore the principal's emerging role as a leader in curriculum development, (2) report ways the principal may bring about desired changes in the curriculum, and (3) identify problems having to do with the effect of social influences and cultural patterns upon curriculum improvement.
A Study To Determine A Program For The Gifted Child In The Eastmont Elementary Schools, Marian Deboer
A Study To Determine A Program For The Gifted Child In The Eastmont Elementary Schools, Marian Deboer
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This paper was written to suggest a possible approach to the problem of meeting the needs of gifted elementary children in the Eastmont Schools of East Wenatchee, Washington.
Selecting And Organizing A Reference File Of Free And Inexpensive Teaching Materials For The Sixth Grade Study Of Canada, Harold A. Drake
Selecting And Organizing A Reference File Of Free And Inexpensive Teaching Materials For The Sixth Grade Study Of Canada, Harold A. Drake
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The purpose of this paper was first to serve as a guide to the selection of free and inexpensive teaching materials. This included criteria for evaluating as well as sources for the materials. Secondly, it was to act as a guide for organizing free and inexpensive teaching materials into a reference file to supplement the sixth grade study of Canada. Last of all, it was an attempt to classify currently available free and inexpensive teaching materials dealing with Canada and suitable for the sixth grade. This was compiled into a catalog that would enable a teacher or school to set …
Development Of Economic Principles For The Secondary Schools: A Review Of The Literature, Charles John Guntley Jr.
Development Of Economic Principles For The Secondary Schools: A Review Of The Literature, Charles John Guntley Jr.
Graduate Student Research Papers
It was the purpose of this study to (1) ascertain how and what was currently being studied in the area of economics in the public schools, (2) survey some of the methods suggested as fulfilling the need for economic education, and (3) attempt to compare the efficacy of teaching economics as a separate discipline and as an integral part of other social studies courses.
A Study Of The Values And Problems Relative To The Use Of Parents And Other Resource Persons In The Elementary School Social Studies Program, Evelyn L. Larson
A Study Of The Values And Problems Relative To The Use Of Parents And Other Resource Persons In The Elementary School Social Studies Program, Evelyn L. Larson
Graduate Student Research Papers
One of the purposes of this study was to find if the use of resource persons is a valuable and sound method of teaching. Another purpose was to find the values of such teaching to the child, to the teacher and to the parent. Is it a justifiable technique for developing the purposes and reaching the goals of a well planned social studies program? Another purpose was to expose the problems involved in the use of this method and to try to solve at least some of them.
An Honors Suppliment To The Curriculum In American History For West Valley High School Juniors, Nell Caroline Paschen
An Honors Suppliment To The Curriculum In American History For West Valley High School Juniors, Nell Caroline Paschen
Graduate Student Research Papers
In a search for ways of perpetuating essential values in a free society, citizens and educators have come to realize that their greatest resource lies in the talents of young people. Leadership of society must be developed from the excellent minds of students in the schools. This leadership will be nurtured by inducing an insight into human relationships and by giving an understanding of the background of cherished American institutions. This work is based on the conviction that teachers of social studies are conscious of an obligation to fill the needs of gifted students for enrichment in breadth of subject …
A Comparison Of Results Obtained By Changing The Amount Of Emphasis Placed On Different Aspects Of A Seventh Grade Mechanical Drawing Course, Joseph Andrew Vegar
A Comparison Of Results Obtained By Changing The Amount Of Emphasis Placed On Different Aspects Of A Seventh Grade Mechanical Drawing Course, Joseph Andrew Vegar
Graduate Student Research Papers
It was the purpose of this paper to show that enrichment or the seventh grade mechanical drawing course content results in greater general knowledge of the subject without loss of detail technique.
Providing For Individual Differences In The Elementary School Arithmetic Program, Robert S. Allen
Providing For Individual Differences In The Elementary School Arithmetic Program, Robert S. Allen
Graduate Student Research Papers
How can individual differences be provided for in the elementary school arithmetic program? It is obvious that if all pupils in the elementary schools are required to follow the same course of study, read the same books, do the same exercises, solve the same problems, and pass the same examinations, there can be little provision for individual differences. It was the purpose of this study to present practices used or usable to provide for individual differences.
The Influence Of Pressure Groups Upon Curriculum Development, Donald K. Ellis
The Influence Of Pressure Groups Upon Curriculum Development, Donald K. Ellis
Graduate Student Research Papers
The purpose of this research was to locate and present information that would indicate (1) the purposes of pressure and special interest groups, (2) the effect or effects that such groups had on curriculum development, (3) the techniques utilized by these groups to influence the curriculum, and (4) the methods educators should use to place the interests of pressure and special interest groups in proper perspective.