The "Guidelines for the Transitional Education Plan Preparation" are the result of an extensive consultation process and the product of fruitful guidance and contributions from key partners active in the field of education in emergencies and protracted crises. The new global education agenda 2030 places strong emphasis on countries…

Recent studies of secondary education have underlined the need for more and better guidance services. Guidance programs are rapidly growing and changing as are the conditions and circumstances confronting high school graduates. An inclusive educational guidance program which is attainable by every school system regardless of its budget or staff is…

Individualized and personalized (I and P) programs place learners at the center of all the activity. The eight main elements of such programs are: philosophical and taxonomic considerations; instructors as resource persons and learning managers; peer tutoring, personal and academic counseling, and cognitive style maps of students; instruction…

This project was designed to give children opportunities to discover and to investigate plants, animals, and ecological relationships in their own neighborhoods. Through hands-on, natural science investigations, children have opportunities to find and observe a variety of plants and animals, look at them closely, sort them to analyze their…

This paper describes the development of clinical programs for the psychiatric needs of refugees. It begins with a discussion of the known psychiatric epidemiology of immigrants and refugees: the increased likelihood of depression, schizophrenia, reactive psychoses from trauma, and organic or psychophysiological disorders. Barriers that refugees…

Parental involvement is supplementary to the main line approach of the Special Needs Assessment Program (SNAP) whose main thrust is the diagnosis and remediation and/or partial alleviation of pupil needs by the child's teacher. This Parent Perception Project is an approach which provides for the involvement of parents in the process of identifying…

The Special Needs Assessment Program (SNAP) is designed to help teachers, parents, and children focus attention on individual pupils as human beings who need help in handling a variety of problems. The project's main intents are to help faculty in identifying critical needs and concerns of pupils and to encourage the building of instructional…