This 10th edition toolkit was developed for use in states and districts taking part in Wallace Foundation-funded efforts to improve school leadership. It includes rubrics on candidate admissions, course content, pedagogy-andragogy, clinical practice, performance assessment, and graduate performance outcomes, and was designed to help principal…

The national goal of migrant education is "to establish programs and projects which are designed to meet the special educational needs of migratory children of migratory agricultural workers or migratory fishermen and to coordinate these programs and projects with similar programs in other states". In Oklahoma, the major objectives for…

This manual is designed to facilitate efficient director preparation for the Project on Team Teaching Modular Workshop. Although the director has many set responsibilities throughout the workshop, there are also many options left open in workshop design. Responsibilities are listed and options explained after an introduction. Certain workshop…

This document is a guideline that outlines specific information for creating an intramural-recreational sports concentration and/or option within a physical education or recreation curriculum. Since each institution is unique, this document is to be used as a framework to help institutions develop curricula for the intramural-recreational sports…

This report is designed to assist the personnel of organized teacher centers in instituting the School Based Teacher Educators program. The first section explores some basic assumptions and general principles underlying the concept of teacher centering as it is currently being employed, including collaboration, governance, societal role, diversity…

Intended for use by local education agencies and communities in developing and improving their literacy programs, this publication presents, in rating scale form, the elements that are essential in creating programs that are effective and comprehensive. The areas to be rated by the scale include leadership, community involvement, program…

Educational accountability is the process of achieving expected learner outcomes through the systematic application of management and evaluation procedures. The first five steps in achieving identified learner outcomes are planning and development steps. The remaining steps are implementation steps. Special programs should improve certain…

The curriculum guides listed, with annotations, in this publication have been collected to publicize good curriculum planning and guide writing and to serve as models for schools revising their programs and seeking a variety of sample frameworks, units, and lesson plans. Contents consist of guides reviewed and recommended in 1973, 1974, and 1975;…

The educational and recreational programs of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) are carried out to help achieve the overall mission of the FWS, which is to provide federal leadership to conserve, protect, and enhance fish and wildlife and their habitats for the continuous benefit of people. A set of standards and related questions…

The curriculum guides listed and annotated in this publication have been collected to publicize good curriculum planning and guide writing and to serve as models for schools revising their programs and seeking a variety of sample frameworks, units, and lesson plans. Contents consist of selected guides reviewed and recommended in 1975, 1976, and…

This guidebook is offered as a resource for teachers who want to take a leadership role in initiating and directing teacher centers. The references and suggestions used in preparing this publication were based on teacher center proposals that have been funded by the Office of Education. There are six primary areas of this subject covered. The…

This guidebook is written to assist groups planning to create a responsive and efficient teacher center. It includes a general description of teacher centers, goal options, steps in setting up and staffing teacher centers, program management, and facility planning. Examples of work materials, equipment, catalogues, and curriculum materials are…

This guide was developed to help secondary education teachers plan a summer cooperative vocational education program. This booklet's content is presented in four sections. The first one covers background information while section two explains the reasons for establishing a summer cooperative education program. The third section discusses ten steps…

Written to comply with Article 3, Chapter 30, Alaska Statutes--which mandates that all exceptional children in Alaska have a right to an appropriate education at public expense, the handbook provides information for designing instructional programs and strategies that will most effectively serve the needs of all exceptional children in Alaskan…

This handbook is a general planning tool for child development groups that want to be more effective than they are. It is designed to help a group determine (1) its reasons for existence; (2) its aspirations for improving child development programs in the community; (3) its limitations; (4) what steps it needs to take to achieve its goals; (5) who…