The insights of developmental psychology have rarely been applied to the business setting. This paper sketches one large-scale attempt to do just that in the development of managers in a large, multicompanied, international service corporation. This paper recounts the initial efforts to plan, implement, and evaluate a three-year longitudinal…

Intensive Reading Instructional Teams is a laboratory project for third graders and for some fourth graders who have difficulty in reading. It features a carefully individualized, eclectic approach made possible by low student/teacher ratios and by a wide variety of materials and equipment. The unique features of this program are the use of an…

The tutorial program provides in-school, individualized instruction for interstate, intrastate, and resettled migrant children residing in Ulster, Orange, Saratoga, Dutchess, and Sullivan counties. Individualized diagnostic prescriptive mathematics instruction is provided utilizing the I.M.S. Mathematics System which has 96 units and 493…

This book is an actual school year's work, written by three teaming, open classroom teachers in grades one, five, and six. It is designed for teachers of grades k-6 who are working right in the classroom with their students, for school administrators involved in curriculum development, and for parents expecting the best tangible results from an…

Project PLAN, a system of individualized education designed to adapt the curriculum to the specific needs of each student, has as one of its principal objectives the assistance of young people in exploring and reaching tentative decisions about long range occupational goals. PLAN charges each student with the responsibility for formulating his…

This paper describes the first component of PLAN's Guidance Program. The five basic assumptions underlying Phase I concern the role of guidance within PLAN's educational system. In line with these assumptions, direct attention is being focused on seven goals: (1) orienting new students to PLAN and orienting current PLAN students to operational…

Although universities have an interest in recruiting, retaining and developing the administrative and educational abilities of department chairmen, most institutions do little to help fulfill the chairman's needs for role socialization and development and for understanding administrative procedures. Training programs are few, mostly because of a…

One of the most pressing needs in education today is the adaptation of instruction to individual characteristics and background. The Individually Prescribed Instruction project (IPI) of the University of Pittsburgh represents an investigation into the requirements for and the problems encountered in developing a system for individualizing…

In language methods courses, there is an attempted integration of the concept of individualized instruction into all of the regular methods class activities. This integration can occur as follows: (1) In teaching language methods, different language learning activities for individual students are considered. (2) In discussing methods for teaching…

This newsletter describes the Hawaii Language Skills Program, a total instructional system that provides teacher materials, pupil materials, instructional approaches, and ways of assessing children's progress in language skills, literature, and language systems. Key approaches used include self-direction and peer tutoring. The children are trained…

This final report on Sensory Adjustment for Effective Reading contains information related to the two major objectives of the reading program: to diagnose and treat sensorily deficient kindergarten and primary children, and to individualize the kindergarten and primary reading program utilizing sensory information. Activities conducted to achieve…

This paper discusses the development and uses of an instrument to assiss attitudes and behaviors in students adjusting to a new learning environment. The pilot program in personalized education, designed and implemented at Auburn University, was constructed around a framework of four global teacher roles (diagnostician, facilitator, interactor,…

Methods and forms are described that are in use for reporting student progress and performance to parents at a junior high school with varying degrees of individualized instruction in each subject area. For the 8th grade science program, in which all work is performed on individual or group contracts, the teacher records each date of completion…

The Youth Career Action Program is an example of a vocational-educational program that can be implemented within a large city in conjunction with a secondary school district. The YCAP Center provides a clearly designated place for hard-to-place young people--primarily those who are under-educated, economically disadvantaged, and have little…

An experimental project--Watch A Book--is being conducted to determine if public television (PTV) programs can be used in a video cassette format by individual viewers in a public library setting. The Public Television Library (PTL), the national center for the exchange of public television programs between PTV stations, has provided libraries in…