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Georgia Heyward – Grantee Submission, 2024
The purpose of this study was to understand a school-based mentoring model that uses school staff as adult mentors. This study presents existing literature on school-based mentoring models along with a case study of one teen parent high school. The report also includes step-by-step guidance for implementation. At the case study school, all school…
Descriptors: Mentors, School Personnel, Staff Role, Adults
Goe, Laura; Holdheide, Lynn; Miller, Tricia – Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, 2014
Across the nation, states and districts are in the process of building better teacher evaluation systems that not only identify highly effective teachers but also systematically provide data and feedback that can be used to improve teacher practice. The "Practical Guide to Designing Comprehensive Teacher Evaluation Systems" is a tool…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluators, Educational Change, Accountability
Edwards, Dave – International Association for K-12 Online Learning, 2015
The changing demands of the 21st century--and the students growing up in it--are generating fundamental challenges to historical assumptions about what education looks like. The challenge today is to provide a deeper level of personalized learning to each and every student so that all can achieve mastery of the Common Core standards and other…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Planning, Instructional Design, Educational Resources
Shull, Jan – 1983
This manual is designed to assist agencies in the development of a child care manual that will serve as an orientation tool for the new child care worker, and as an on-going reference tool. The manual is organized to orient the child care worker first to the agency objectives, functions, and organization, and then to specific child care…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Abuse, Child Caregivers, Child Neglect
Eastes, Meg Williams – 1980
This handbook offers a field-tested model workshop designed specifically for vocational education institutions interested in providing services for displaced homemakers. The three-hour format brings together displaced homemakers and service providers (vocational educators, adult education programs, federally funded programs, and community…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Adults, Ancillary School Services, Career Counseling
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Kauffman, Dianne K.; Kavinsky, Gregory A. – Clearing House, 1980
This article describes the transition program at Goodyear Junior High in Akron, Ohio. Beginning in the spring, it helps reduce the adjustment anxiety of sixth graders and their parents by familiarizing them with the school and preparing them for the junior high school experience. Some evaluative feedback is cited. (SJL)
Descriptors: Grade 6, Junior High Schools, Models, Parent Participation
McGough, Robert L.; Vincent, John – 1980
This monograph is one of 12 that address various topics in the area of CETA/education linkages. They were designed to provide those individuals interested in the development and implementation of CETA/education linkages with information that will serve to enhance the quality of existing programs and facilitate the efficient and effective…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Counseling Services, Day Care, Educational Cooperation
Mount, Beth; Zwernik, Kay – 1989
Personal futures planning is a tool for fostering new ways of thinking about people with developmental disabilities. Futures planning helps groups of people focus on opportunities for people with disabilities to develop personal relationships, have positive roles in community life, increase their control of their own lives, and develop the skills…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Developmental Disabilities, Goal Orientation, Individual Development
Instituto Nacional para la Educacion de los Adultos, Mexico City (Mexico). – 1990
This manual is part of a Mexican series of instructional materials designed for Spanish speaking adults who are in the process of becoming literate or have recently become literate in their native language. This document describes the concept of a model for community adult education for the purpose of supporting local educational committees…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Advisory Committees, Community Cooperation
Banathy, Bela H.; Jenks, C. Lynn – 1990
This guide is the first of three documents that make up a Professional Development Package for Educational Systems Design. Together, the documents constitute an integrated package designed to help educators and others accomplish specific purposes relative to a communitywide systems design effort. The orientation guide is ideally used in a 1-day…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Decision Making, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Irvin, Donald E.; Galey, Stephen B. – 1977
This manual represents an attempt to develop a model and procedures for implementing career planning and placement assistance services in Minnesota high schools. The procedures described were developed for and tested in four participating high schools of different sizes, administrative structures, and geographic locations. Divided into seven…
Descriptors: Career Planning, College Choice, Evaluation Methods, Guidance Programs
Avis, Joan P.; Bigelow, Elizabeth D. – 1984
This training guide and reference manual helps educational leaders learn to be facilitators in the program called "Improving the Human Environment of Schools" (IHES), a participative problem-solving method designed to improve a school's "quality of life." An introductory chapter reviews the history of IHES and outlines IHES…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution, Divergent Thinking
Vocational Training Council, Wellington (New Zealand). – 1983
These principles are intended for application by employers of large or small organizations who wish to improve the efficiency of clerical workers. They include policies and practices that respond to social and technological changes and implement a systematic approach to training. Seven principles highlight the value of training clerical workers.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Clerical Workers, Foreign Countries, Models
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Gartin, Barbara C.; And Others – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1996
Guidelines are presented for assisting students with disabilities in their transition to college. A higher education transition model is described with three curricular elements: (1) psychosocial adjustment (such as college-level social skills); (2) academic development (such as career awareness); and (3) college/community orientation (such as…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, College Bound Students, College Environment, College Students
Montgomery, Joel R. – 1996
This workbook explains the process of using the goal-based learning (GBL) approach to accelerating performance change to design an education or training program. The first half of the workbook, which focuses on the nature and benefits of GBL, discusses the following topics: shifting the focus of education; differences between lecture-based and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Design, Goal Orientation
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