When K-12 schools in California closed for in-person instruction in response to COVID-19 in March 2020, few would have predicted that most schools would remain physically closed for more than one year. Throughout this period, California's educators and students have continued teaching and learning remotely for the most part, demonstrating…

The sudden closure of educational facilities due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has brought about many trials and struggles. For families and students, it means the loss of structure, connection, and valuable instructional time. For administrators, educators, and support staff, it means a sudden shift in the way teaching and learning…

This twentieth in a series of twenty-nine learning modules on instructional execution is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers help in locating and evaluating community resources, determining when and how to use a subject matter expert in the vocational program, and conducting a presentation session in which a subject…

Presented for regular classroom teachers, resource room teachers, and teacher consultants is a handbook of strategies and techniques for mainstreaming educable mentally impaired, emotionally impaired, and learning disabled students into regular classrooms. Twelve chapters cover the following topics: resource room models, personnel, staff…

The Mathematics Learning Center at Cerritos Community College in Norwalk, California is described. Discussed are how it is organized, financed, staffed, and operated. Pitfalls to avoid and helpful hints are included. (MNS)

This manual on independent learning centers (ILC) includes eleven chapters intended to provide assistance and resource materials to any institution or individual developing an ILC. The chapters each cover one of the following topics: learning center model; Hawkeye Institute of Technology's (HIT) Independent Learning Center; the ILC student from…

This module is one of twelve individualized performance-based modules, each based on a major competency needed by vocational administrators for effectively administering vocational education in local education agencies. The module focuses on developing competency in understanding the need for cooperation with industry and in planning cooperative…

This module is one of twelve individualized performance-based modules, each based on a major competency needed by vocational administrators for effectively administering vocational education in local education agencies. The module focuses on developing competency in the following area and subareas: organizing and directing a continuous and…

Described is an interdisciplinary mainstreaming program for individualizing instruction for secondary learning disabled students, utilizing resource facilities in grades 7-9 in eight separate centers throughout Franklin County, Missouri. Aspects of this program--such as the developmental and by-pass strategies of instruction employed to help…

This is the initial publication of a series of self-study manuals on optical radiation measurement, and contains the first three chapters. Additional chapters will be published when completed. These chapters include: an introduction to optical radiation and the ray approach to its treatment; an introduction to the basic radiometric quantity…

This individualized instructional module is designed to instruct the learner in the use of volumes 1, 2, and 3 of the "Dictionary of Occupational Titles" (DOT), and its two supplements. It contains learning objectives, a pretest, a posttest, test and worksheet keys, and learning activities with accompanying worksheets. Appendixes contain…

A need to integrate the various trends in education including career development, human relations, and individualized instruction in a group setting was a primary motivation for this book. A second motivation was the need for "hands on" materials and strategies that teachers and counselors could use with students--in this case primarily at the…

On the premise that individualized instruction and its many variations has become increasingly more important to the vocational and technical educator, various aspects of an individualized instructional program are discussed under eight headings: (1) What Is Meant by Individualizing Instruction in Vocational and Technical Education? (2) Why Do We…

Listed are 10 steps which must be taken in developing an individualized education program. Discussed are the advantages and disadvantages of developing an IEP, and the suggestion is made that some professionals consider the IEP to be a wave of the future for education in general. (KC)

This guide, written to provide teachers with alternative methods and materials for individualizing elementary language arts, contains six chapters. It also includes several diagrams analyzing instructional variables in a manner that provides teachers with alternatives for classroom instruction. The chapters are "Options in Program…