To help public schools produce well-educated citizens, the Center for Civic Education (originating at UCLA in 1965) works with elementary and secondary school students and teachers to promote better understanding of such basic democratic principles as due process, federalism, and judicial review. The process transforms student interactions while…

As schools become more complex, so must administrator training and educational processes. This article discusses the need for methods to "socialize" administrator candidates to their new roles through experiential interaction using case studies, close supervision, and videotaping in graduate training programs. Includes eight references. (MLH)

Perspectives on the skills needed by a college president or executive officer are considered, based on an internship experience with the Chancellor and Director of University Relations at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. The information is directed to students contemplating a doctoral program in higher education administration. Attention is…

Designed to be used in conjunction with a series of instructional television programs which were produced for kindergarten students and broadcast on educational television statewide in Arkansas, this printed guide assists teachers in developing full utilization of each of the KELLIE episodes. KELLIE, a doll-like figure kept in a trunk, is the only…

Most organizations find it difficult to implement change, and only about 10 percent of learning from training and development experiences is actually applied in the workplace. This book advocates facilitation as a means of enhancing change and increasing productivity. Facilitation engages employees by enhancing the processes associated with their…

This article highlights Project Adventure, an adventure-based curriculum that teaches students social skills, teamwork, and conflict resolution. It describes how Project Adventure works, what effect it has on students with behavior disorders, and practical steps for teachers to follow as they introduce their students to this social-skills…

Student organization cocurricular activities may be integrated into office procedures classes to help students attain competency and employability. The article notes how organization activities, such as records management, travel arrangements, time management, and taking minutes of meetings, are related to school and job activities. (MF)

Delineates five elements of global education curriculum for planning and implementing the elementary social studies curriculum. Provides a sample lesson from the Democratic Classroom Interaction Model that uses art activities and allows students to practice social interaction skills. States that the lesson illustrates a way to integrate global…

Incidental teaching of social behavior and friendship activities are naturalistic peer interventions that can be easily incorporated into preschool curricula for children with and without special needs. This article provides a rationale for these two strategies, a 10-step program for implementing incidental social behavior instruction, and…

This study, involving 4 high school seniors with learning disabilities, found that an initial vocational social skills simulation intervention delivered at school led to generalization in 8 of 12 target behaviors (3 behaviors per student). Subsequently, in situ training at the work site produced generalization in four of six behaviors. (Author/JDD)

The article describes eight vocational student organizations and some of their activities in developing leadership and personal relations skills of their members in vocational agriculture, home economics, industrial, distributive, business, office, industrial arts, and health occupations education. Discusses organizations' needs; emphasizes the…

Intended for college-level instructors, this paper aims to establish behavioral objectives for listening or listening competencies and provide experiential learning to develop and assess those objectives and/or competencies. The paper begins with an overview which notes the lack of material on listening competencies in many college speech…

The StudyWorks Project was a 1-year unit of study designed for implementation with gifted/talented (G/T) students and developmentally handicapped (DH) students. The project involved four major areas of study (economic development, career education, social/interpersonal skills, and health/nutrition) and provided practical application of these areas…

This curriculum presents community based living skills for moderately and severely mentally retarded students at the middle and high school level. An initial section describes steps for individualizing the curriculum based on an assessment of the needs of individual students, including parent interviews and a community skills assessment. Task…

Contends that an interdisciplinary curriculum and cooperative learning are well suited to middle school students. Asserts that the approaches help students learn higher order thinking skills and improve social skills. Maintains that authentic or performance-based assessment is appropriate for these techniques and this age group. (CFR)