This report examines a project design for land degradation problems in the northern and upper regions of Ghana. The project was jointly sponsored by the Ghana Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and the Agency for International Development. The council is responsible for coordinating the activities of 10 independent research institutes.…

Suggests a structure for college-school cooperation in developing competency based teacher education programs. (JG)

The specialist team approach to the design and preparation of instructional television materials uses a core group of professionals who work closely together, each making unique contributions throughout the duration of a project. Typically the team consists of content authorities, an instructional designer, a writer, a producer-director, and a…

Effective materials for televised instruction are most likely to result from the coordinated efforts of a team of capable specialists. Composition of the team may be influenced by local variables, but the group should normally include (1) an instructional designer who develops an overall scheme in which interrelated parts of an instructional…

This issue of WIN (Welfare Information Network) Issue Notes raises some major issues that agencies may want to address as they consider expanding collaborative efforts. It describes collaborative efforts and identifies resources that could prove useful in designing successful collaborations. Section 1 offers background. Section 2 answers these…

Increased attention to inservice teacher education needs has isolated four major structural dimensions associated with the design of effective inservice programs. The INSERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION REPORT I: ISSUES TO FACE (ISTE) explicates an early model of program construction, utilizing these four concepts. Governance, concerned with the…

This paper provides school building principals, teachers, and counselors with a systematic approach for implementing a comprehensive career education program at the building level by organizing teams of multi-discipline and/or multi-professional roles, called Career Activities Teams (CATs), composed of two or more persons committed to integrating…

Partnerships between schools and businesses are becoming more frequent and more reciprocal as the two find common interests; the Salem-Keizer (Oregon) Public Schools provide a nationally recognized example of such a partnership. Salem's program began in 1981 with a joint school board and Chamber of Commerce policy statement. Despite economic…

This package is the eighth of twelve in the Skills for Adult Guidance Educators (SAGE) system, which provides instruction in a set of necessary competencies specifically designed for adult education counselors, teachers, and paraprofessionals. The materials provide a process for developing and implementing counseling and guidance programs unique…

This report presents a model for single school staff development projects or programs within a large urban-suburban central system. Characteristics of such a system are identified as: rapid changes in the nature of the student population; active community interest; active teacher participation; the use of annual school plans and school board goals…

Designed for use by public participation coordinators in natural resources planning, this manual provides information to aid in the development of a coordinated planning strategy by defining reasonable program goals and following through by selecting appropriate means and methods. In a discussion of the orientation stages of public involvement…

Five exemplary university field experience programs for individuals studying to become teachers were identified and examined in order to develop a model field experience program in teacher education. Programs at the following universities were examined: Ball State University (Indiana), Illinois State University, Millersville University…

The monograph orders career education program components and assigns responsibility for their delivery, stating major differentiation areas and placing career development and the counselor's facilitating role at the center. The first three chapters review the modern history of vocational choice, career development, and career education concepts;…

The report describes a 1974-75 project to coordinate planning efforts for public training programs in vocational education, rehabilitation, and manpower training and development in San Francisco. Project participants included representatives from the local public school district, the community college district, the office of the State Department…

Five areas of concern relating to the Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States (V-TECS) are documented in this report. First, following an introduction which discusses the purpose of the V-TECS system (to develop materials for performance based instruction), the organizational structure of the sixteen state consortium is presented,…