This guidebook offers practical advice on planning, administering, and evaluating telecourses. An introductory section provides a definition and history of telecourses. The following section covers procedures such as planning for implementation of the telecourse, securing approval for the telecourse, deciding on the credit and grade options the…

This program guide was written for the informed layman, educator, or educational administrator who may have some present or future responsibility for the administration of postsecondary and technical education programs. It is designed to provide some general suggested guidelines and administrative considerations for the development of new…

A 5-year project is planned to increase opportunities for the deaf by using existing vocational and technical schools and junior colleges customarily serving the hearing. Its pilot planning phase developed guidelines for program establishment and administration and a research plan for program evaluation and improvement. Preparatory meetings and…

One of eight sections of a handbook for use by vocational teacher educators in improving vocational teacher education linkage with business, industry, and labor, this eighth section focuses on the program support approach to utilizing the private sector. (Program support, as defined here, encompasses monetary assistances, donation of time and…

Based on a review of existing literature and interviews with more than 50 individuals at television stations and colleges, this report describes the state of the art of telecourses. Following an introductory chapter, 13 chapters discuss the following aspects of telecourses: (1) definition and scope; (2) the institutional environment; (3) the…

Prepared by the American Association of Junior Colleges and the National Council on Medical Technology Education, this guide discusses programs for career-entry supportive medical laboratory personnel which have been cooperatively planned by junior college personnel and the medical community, particularly pathologists and medical technologists.…

This manual on training parents in career education contains information that was obtained from a project during which staff from Teachers College of Columbia University provided formal training in career education for parents of handicapped children and youth. Following a description of the Parent Training Project in Career Education, various…

This manual presents guidelines for establishing, modifying, and terminating occupational programs at any educational level. It is the result of a comprehensive study of the current practices of all high schools, Regional Occupational Centers, and college districts in California, and an analysis of information obtained from State Boards of…

This guide to the use of a 100-module series of performance-based teacher education (PBTE) materials is addressed to teacher educators, directors of staff development, master teachers, and others with responsibility for guiding and assisting preservice or inservice vocational teachers in the development of professional teaching competencies. There…

Focusing primarily on program modification and termination, this document is one of two handbooks developed by a California consortium of vocational educators to provide guidelines for developing and evaluating occupational programs. (The accompanying handbook, CE 017 928, focuses on program initiation.) A flow chart illustrating the different…

Designed to provide administrators of occupation programs at the secondary and post-secondary level with a systems approach to administration, this administrators' guide brings together administrative and leadership tasks and responsibilities that must be considered by administrators when developing programs. The system presented in the guide is…

Resulting in part from a project designed to identify and describe comprehensive programs of excellence in career education, this manual is the first of a series describing current, successful career education practices. Among the considerations discussed in this handbook are: (1) administrative practices, including the role of the superintendent…

This guide is aimed at persons concerned about quality postsecondary distributive education programs, specifically in Kansas. It provides guidelines for program organization and administration in community colleges and area vocational-technical schools. Section I presents general introductory information about postsecondary distributive education,…

Based on the need to strengthen articulation activities within the Illinois educational system, this project was designed to provide a formal articulation mechanism utilizing the concept of institutional coordination for the development of comprehensive vocational programs and services. Phase 1 of the project developed an articulation process…

Policies and procedures for the implementation of five concepts as steps in the articulation of vocational education programs are presented. Part I of the document provides an introduction to the project and guide development. Part II, organized into six sections, contains the implementation procedures. The first section, "Implementation of…