A Teacher Corps project designed to improve the quality of education in a school serving a predominantly low income area is described. The major goal of this program was to bring about close ties between the school and the community by involving students' parents in active work with the teachers. One development that evolved from this effort was a…

The overall goal of the Vocational Education Information Services project was to support vocational education in Indiana by facilitating more efficient use of information and by developing more effective products for wide dissemination. First, a needs assessment was conducted to determine specific user populations and user needs for information…

Teacher centers that are run by teachers and staffed by competent professionals can help administrators recognize and value professioanl behavior in teachers. They can play a major role in developing and delivering inservice education if they place major emphasis on attending to teachers' individual needs for professioanl growth through bottom-up…

This sourcebook contains a collection of articles on educational topics and is designed to be used as a resource for inservice teacher programs at the secondary level. The first section is devoted to curriculum theory and contains writings on the theoretical underpinnings and relevant background for practical work with students. Inservice is the…

Because of widespread disillusion with suspension as a discipline procedure, school officials are developing inschool alternative programs. Institution of such a program must begin with reflection about how current disciplinary programs are succeeding or failing. The primary purposes of the program must include helping the child and identifying…

This monograph describes the development of a language program for four-year-old disadvantaged boys in Northern Ireland. Various sections of the work describe the steps in devising the program; its objectives, organization, evaluations, and subsequent modifications; the problems affecting implementation, and the efforts made to overcome them; the…

This collection focuses on the issue of collaboration in teacher education. Essays, program descriptions, materials development reports, and educational policy discussions debate the role collaboration may play, and argue the relative effectiveness of various programs based on cooperative effort of different genres. The Florida model in particular…

The prime considerations used in developing a multicultural teacher education program are discussed. The assembling of a faculty not only knowledgeable in concepts and strategies of multiculturalism but also composed of individuals of different ethnic and racial backgrounds was the first priority. The curriculum was developed along state…

The purpose of this project was to develop a set of model policies, procedures, and agreements that would enhance student articulation among and between secondary and postsecondary vocational education programs. The project was divided into four phases. In the first phase, a nationwide search and review of existing articulation programs and…

An exemplary project was conducted at a joint vocational school to test the adaptability of the performance-based teacher education (PBTE) materials developed by the National Center for Research in Vocational Education to inservice applications for vocational education teachers at the secondary and adult levels. The activities of the project were…

Described are the efforts of the New Hampshire College and University Council to develop and institutionalize an interinstitutional, multi-disciplinary undergraduate marine science program. Among the aspects of the program that are presented are the structural elements, the three major components and the activities under each, a summary of the…

This paper describes the purpose and function of the "mini-sabbatical" for college faculty. This short term sabbatical is of one week duration. During this period the teacher visits an educational institution other than his own with the object of observing, interviewing, and discussing his field of interest with faculty members…

This paper presents a brief history of higher education in United States prisons, and then describes an on-campus education program for ex-offenders at John Jay College. The following topics are covered: (1) establishing and planning the college orientation program; (2) primary objective and ultimate aim; (3) needs and limitations of ex-offenders;…

This report details the development and evaluation of a model program for inservice training of full-time child day care personnel. Based on a survey of licensed day care centers in Virginia, the program involved 100 participants, ranging from day care aides through center directors. The 10-week training element was presented three successive…

TEPY is a unified approach to the preparation of elementary school teachers which integrates the professional education areas of language arts and reading, mathematics, science, social studies, child development, evaluation, and teaching skills into an instructional format that is team-taught, clinically-oriented, and field-based. The program…