This handbook describes the duties of the supervisor of a food service site in the Summer Food Service Program for Children. The responsibilities of the program sponsor are listed. These include handling bills and paperwork, training supervisors, and providing recordkeeping forms to the site supervisor. The responsibilities of the site supervisor…

This handbook describes the duties of the supervisor of a food service site in the Summer Food Program for Children. The responsibilities of the program sponsor are listed first; these include handling bills and paperwork, training supervisors, advising about meal types and what to do with leftovers, providing record-keeping forms and…

The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities' (AAIDD's) Positive Behavior Support Training Curriculum," Second Edition" ("PBSTC"), is a curriculum for training direct support personnel and their supervisors in the values and practices of Positive Behavior Support. The curriculum is designed for direct support persons and…

An educational training needs assessment for nursing and hospital support staff was undertaken at a country hospital to collect data for use in designing a staff development program for the institution. After gathering the perceptions of key hospital staff concerning the hospital's mission, future, strengths, weaknesses, and problems to establish…

This outline of the Program for Effective Teaching (PET), developed by the Arkansas State Department of Education, was generated by a statewide seminar convened to review and revise the PET model in the light of the growth and needs that have surfaced since the program began in l979. The PET program was developed to improve the skills of…

This guide explains how to establish a program of supported work that can be used to enable hard-to-employ individuals (including disabled persons, ex-offenders, and rehabilitated drug and alcohol abusers) to obtain and retain jobs. The program described is based on the following five concepts: real job assignments, graduated stress, sympathetic…

Based on the author's experiences with the Direct Instruction Follow Through Project at the University of Oregon and with the PLATO Corrections Project at the University of Illinois, this "how to do it" book articulates the conditions and procedures believed critical in implementing educational programs from the planning and theoretical…

This training manual deals with developing and implementing work force education (workplace literacy) programs. It consists of three sections and an appendix. Discussed in the first section are the scope and purpose of work force education, work force education participants, types of basic skills problems and solutions, and the need for…