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Download full textPartnership for Academic and Career Education, Pendleton, SC. – 1996
This resource handbook provides a brief overview of ideas, facts, and resources offered during the Partnership for Academic and Career Education's (PACE) 10th annual Summer Institute. The institute's goal was to inform participants about nontraditional careers open to students, with special emphasis on midlevel technology careers and to recommend…
Descriptors: High Schools, Institutes (Training Programs), Learning Activities, Postsecondary Education
Lee, Howard D. – 1990
This document contains an outline of a workshop on instructional supervision for vocational, technical, and adult education supervisors in Wisconsin. Materials used in the workshop, along with preparation materials, are included. Extensive appendixes include a list of workshop participants, the agenda, handouts on instructional supervision, and…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Postsecondary Education
Nelson, Orville; Lee, Howard D. – 1990
This report describes a workshop for 24 midlevel managers that provided information on change areas critical to program planning in the Wisconsin Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education (VTAE) system. These change areas include technology, labor market, demographic, and educational trends. In addition, techniques for identifying and forecasting…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1990
This document reports the proceedings of a national conference of government, business, and educational executives on the school-to-work connection. The proceedings provide short summaries of the speeches and discussions held during the conference, which focused on the problems of poorly educated youth--tomorrow's workers--and how businesses and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs, Educationally Disadvantaged
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Santiago (Chile). Regional Office for Education in Latin America and Caribbean. – 1980
A meeting was held in St. Lucia in September, 1980, at which representatives of Caribbean countries discussed the present state and future progress of adult education in the region. The meeting viewed adult education as a vital part of national and regional development. Meeting participants stressed the following four themes: (1) political changes…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Educational Administration, Educational Finance
Wideen, Marvin, Ed.; And Others – 1979
This book brings together seven presentations from a conference on inservice teacher education and the results of the deliberations of five task forces on aspects of inservice in British Columbia. The first speaker noted the ironic fact that staff development programs for teachers often violate the best known theories about training by not using a…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Delivery Systems, Educational Planning, Educational Practices
PDF pending restorationSolomon, George T., Ed.; Whiting, Bruce G. – 1986
The following papers are included: "The Visionary Entrepreneur" (Sidney J. Parnes); "Creative Discipline: Entrepreneurial Objective or Oxymoron" (Arthur Lipper III); "Wowing Your Customers" (Stew Leonard); "Results of Recent Studies Examining the Effect of Need for Achievement and Other Variables upon…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Education, Economic Opportunities, Entrepreneurship
Jucovy, Linda – 1987
This workshop report deals with developing a youth service corps. Twenty-nine representatives from 15 youth corps attended the workshop, the second in a series of six sponsored by the Youth Corps Exchange Project. The report begins with an overview of the highlights of the workshop. The second section, which discusses the need for human services,…
Descriptors: Conservation Education, Delivery Systems, Financial Support, Human Services
Lee, Howard D. – 1990
This document reports on a workshop conducted to bring together vocational, technical, and adult education colleges and the University of Wisconsin-Stout staff members who are working with computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM). Participants discussed current program content, identified areas that need further development, and determined how…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Computer Assisted Manufacturing, Computer Oriented Programs, Curriculum Development
Hanna, Glenda M., Ed. – 1992
This conference proceedings consists of edited submissions of 63 workshops and presentations covering the historical aspects of experiential education and current and future trends in experiential education. Two types of material are included: (1) "information foundation" papers, that are relatively longer, theoretical or descriptive in…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Corporate Education, Educational Research, Educational Trends
Jones, Leroy, Ed.; Hamby, Trudy M., Ed. – 1980
This publication is a compilation of keynote addresses and workshop presentations given at the Child Development Associate (CDA) Seminars held in Miami, Florida, May 20-21, 1980. The document includes an introductory overview of the CDA program; two keynote sessions dealing with providing quality care for children, and future implementation of the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Certification, Child Caregivers, Competency Based Teacher Education
American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, Washington, DC. Adult Competency Education Unit. – 1987
These proceedings include a brief overview of the 11th Competency-Based Adult Education (CBAE) Conference along with the texts of the following conference presentations: "National Legislative Update" (Patricia M. Keeton); "Adult School/High-Risk Youth Connection--Is There One?" (Joellen Bruce); "Overview of Adult ESL Programs: A National…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Corporate Education
Northeast Regional Exchange, Inc., Chelmsford, MA. – 1982
These proceedings consist of papers delivered at a conference on the development of a working partnership involving business, industry, and education. Included in the proceedings are the texts of the following papers: "Business Doing Business with Schools: Does It Make Cents and Sense," by Edward J. Meade, Jr.; "Twenty Years of…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Educational Benefits
Council for Cultural Cooperation, Strasbourg (France). – 1982
This document contains presentations and a summary of ideas generated at a meeting of the Council for Cultural Co-operation to discuss the state of guidance and counseling services in adult education in Europe, particularly in Germany. According to the summary, the following themes emerged from the speeches and discussion of the conference: (1)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Education, Continuing Education, Counseling Services
Solomon, George T., Ed.; And Others – 1988
The following papers are included: "Defining the Win and Thereby Lessening the Losses for Successful Entrepreneurs" (Arthur Lipper III); "It Can Be Done" (Anthony Lemme); "A Self-Portrait of Entrepreneurs" (George T. Solomon, Erik K. Winslow); "Software Entrepreneurship: Lessons Learned" (John Coyne);…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Education, Creativity, Economic Opportunities
