Working through state councils and college centers for economic education throughout the country, the Joint Council on Economic Education provides interdisciplinary training programs for teachers in K-14 schools. The article describes some projects and materials that exemplify their work, including a master curriculum guide, annual awards, and…

The paper describes a 2-year college program designed to meet the need for front-line workers, who have been trained within the developmental model, to work with people exhibiting a broad variety of handicaps. The program is explained to adhere to a philosophy of normalization/integration for the handicapped. The orientation is noted to be…

This second of two volumes on post secondary environmental education is comprised of three series of case studies that were carried out in various institutions of higher education in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Italy. These studies deal with the training or retraining of people in the following categories: (1) educators at…

Based on a 2-year-old faculty development program at an urban university, a model is derived that describes faculty development as an evolving process, beginning with low mutual knowledge and trust and an "expert" consulting role, developing into greater mutual knowledge and trust and a more "collaborative" consulting role. (Editor/JT)

Describes state level development of a television series for family day-care training and a two-year work/study paraprofessional program for day-care providers. (RH)

Arizona Community Nutrition Workers gain college credit and job competence through Personalized Systems of Instruction. (Author/BB)

This annotated bibliography reviews some of the leadership development training programs currently being offered to business, industry, and educational personnel. Section 1 focuses on programs for corporate personnel. Section 2 reviews both preparatory and continuing professional education programs for top college and university administrators.…

The final report describes the organization and evaluation of a 2-year prototype project which utilized multipoint closed-circuit interactive television as a means of providing continuing career education to specialists working with language disordered children. Listed among the subjects covered by the television programing are language and the…

This report reviews the 248 home visiting programs serving children ages birth to 18 which provide a written training curriculum to their paraprofessionals. Programs were identified as part of a national survey of 4,162 potential home visiting programs (1,904 responses). Through a categorization process, 115 programs were identified as having…

The Associate Diploma in Training and Development (ADTD) is one of the four qualifications provided by the Centre for Studies in Adult and Further Education (CSAFE) at the South Australian College of Advanced Education. The ADTD offers a two-year, individually negotiated program for those who work or aspire to work in the training and development…

College and university involvement in programs of continuing education or inservice training for practicing journalists is reviewed in this paper. Continued and increased involvement is forecast for the 1980s. Surveys addressing the need for continued education and surveys conducted to discover in-house newspaper training programs are reviewed.…

The project was designed to develop and test instructional packages from a selected list of 149 competencies (identified in a separate study done by North Carolina State University) needed by vocational administrators for effectively administering vocational education in local education agencies. The packages were designed for use in West…

The primary purpose of this project was to stimulate individuals and institutions to conduct short-term teacher education activities for persons in the health occupations field. Because this program has been growing rapidly, teacher education activities have not kept up with the expansion. An institute, consisting of 85 participants, six staff…

This manual for use by vocational administrators, local system staff development coordinators, and teacher educators describes the state staff development program for vocational personnel, including rationale, structure, and procedures for such programs. It is also designed to establish an organized channel of communication for disseminating…

Materials are provided on the Statewide Job Placement Service (SJPS) at State Fair Community College, a free school-based job placement service for students and industry. In a booklet on Missouri's SJPS, the plan of its operation is described including placement services, inservice training (workshops and seminar), collecting student follow-up…