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Barrett, John; Lavin, Don – 1987
This guide is based on the principles and methods used at Rise, Incorporated, a sheltered workshop providing successful industry-integrated programs for handicapped persons. It is intended to serve as a model both for existing service providers who are interested in retooling their program in the direction of industrial work services and other…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Guidelines, Job Training
Callard, Esther Dean, Comp.; Morin, Patricia E., Comp. – 1979
This report describes the Detroit, Michigan, Parents and Children Together (PACT) project which provides an intensive, home based intervention service to low-income families who have, or are at risk of having, a child placed in foster care. Part I of this report describes how staff members are selected and trained, how goals are formulated for…
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Family Problems, Family (Sociological Unit), Foster Children
Hill, Daniel – 1970
A study was made to define areas where Community Resource Development-Community Services program coordination between Cooperative Extension and Community Colleges may integrate at the local level. Objectives were to describe similarities and differences of both programs, to identify attitudes of personnel toward the program areas and possible…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Audiences, Community Colleges, Community Development
Alsamarrae, Hatam Ali – 1968
The general purpose of this study was to develop an educational program for agricultural development in Iraq, and to identify the best method for its implementation. The proposed program was based primarily upon relevant factors identified through data collection from the following sources: official records, current literature, and the writer's…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Skills, Demonstrations (Educational)
Chung, An-Me, Ed. – 2000
After-school programs have the potential to keep children safe and out of trouble and can help to improve the academic performance of the increasing numbers of participating children. This report presents positive research on after-school programs and examples illustrating the potential of high-quality after-school activities to keep children…
Descriptors: After School Education, After School Programs, Children, Educational Quality
Harnett, Anne Marie – 1991
This digest describes three teacher education program models designed to concentrate on: (1) a philosophy of middle school education; (2) an understanding of the unique psychological, social, and intellectual needs peculiar to the 10- to 14-year-old student; (3) an ability to increase student motivation; and (4) a command of subject area. The…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Philosophy, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education
Post, Maarten; And Others – 1986
A study explored ways in which training in information technology could be included in Participation and Equity Programs (PEP) in the areas of hospitality/tourism, retailing, and business and finance. The research team conducted a literature search, obtained completed questionnaires from 10 colleges offering a total of 22 PEPs, visited an…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged, Equal Education
Ferguson, Edward T., Ed. – 1971
Leaders from across the country attended the Fourth Annual National Vocational-Technical Teacher Education seminar, which focused on emerging teacher education curricular models. The November 1970 seminar had three primary objectives: (1) to provide an understanding of the performance-based core concept of a model vocational-technical teacher…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Conference Reports, Core Curriculum, Course Content
Beery, Keith E. – 1975
Presented is the final performance report of Project Catalyst, a program designed to evolve a process in action to maximize skills, interpersonal relations and personal job satisfaction among principals, teachers and pupils (both handicapped and nonhandicapped) in mainstream settings. Covered in Section I, "Framework", are a statement of…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Programs, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children
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Zemelman, Steven; Daniels, Harvey – English Education, 1986
Explores why it is both difficult and vital to model nonauthoritarian, student-centered, collaborative learning in a teacher workshop on writing. (SRT)
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Inservice Education, Modeling (Psychology), Models
Henak, Richard, Ed. – 1991
This monograph offers a model for a technology teacher education program that can be used in planning new programs as well as in revising and updating existing programs. A figure illustrates the Technology Teacher Education Model that consists of three elements that are held together with the "rationale." Chapter 1 focuses on the role of the…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Education Courses, Higher Education
Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., New York, NY. – 1990
The New Chance national demonstration project is designed to help disadvantaged 17- to 21-year-old mothers and their children achieve economic self-sufficiency and optimal physical and psychological development and thereby to curtail the perpetuation of intergenerational poverty. The New Chance model provides a variety of services to meet the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Daily Living Skills, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Kanu, Okpete R. – 1986
Because Nigeria's original secondary education system transmitted the alien British culture of power and status, it was only able to help a small percentage of Nigerians receive the preparation necessary for their adult lives. The Curriculum Conference of 1969 developed a new national educational philosophy based on prevocational curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Brion-Meisels, Steven; And Others – 1982
This teacher's manual is one volume of a six volume curriculum for the secondary level, designed to provide a systematic, group-oriented approach to decision-making in areas crucial to adolescent development: work, drug (substance) use and abuse, sexuality and social relationships, juvenile law, and people and government. The manual is divided…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Decision Making Skills, Evaluative Thinking
Case, Chester H. – 1976
This document describes a staff development and induction model used at Los Medanos College for the purpose of professionally preparing teachers as community college instructors. The model proposes a campus-based and managed program that involves a four-week, preservice seminar in August and regular meetings throughout the subsequent fall and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Consultants, Faculty Development
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