Category: C
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Custodial student
A student who is so limited in mental, social, physical, or emotional development that institutional care or constant supervision at home is required.
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Custodial child
A handicapped child below the trainable level for which custodial care is desirable.
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Cuspids
The teeth used to tear food. The canine teeth. There are two cuspids in the maxillary arch and two cuspids in the mandibular arch. They fall between the lateral incisors and the first premolars.
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Curvature of field
In optics, a condition in which the center of the field is in focus but the margins are out of focus.
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Curriculum revision
Changing the nature of the curriculum in view of (a) changed conditions in society, (b) new educational knowledge about the psychology of learning, and (c) new technical knowledge.
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Curriculum reform
Movements to change basic curricular options for learners.
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Curriculum guide
A written plan containing detailed information regarding grade level offerings and other suggestions for the health education program of the school district. It differs from the course of study chiefly in the lack of grade or development level details. The curriculum guide describes overall goals, philosophy, scope, and sequence of the health education program.
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Curriculum development
A continuous and planned process embracing initial construction, evaluation, reorganization, experimentation, administration, and all other elements of the school and community that influence the quality of learning and teaching, curriculum. The elements are (a) goals and objectives, (b) philosophy of health education, (c) organization and administration, (d) teacher competence, (e) learning resources and experiences, (f)…
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Curriculum design
Planned learning experiences reflecting some pattern of instruction and some frame work that organizes appropriate subject matter and content.
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Curriculum
Any and all things that influence in any way the learning or the individual. The range of programs offered to students in a school, developed in a deliberate sequence, with the content, materials, and approaches geared to the abilities of the students and the established goals of the school. In a high school whose students…