Presented is a model plan for inservice training of professional personnel who work with gifted and talented children in Connecticut. Discussed are such aspects as basic philosophical assumptions regarding the use of human resources, teaching strategies, and background knowledge; and the design and implementation of inservice training programs…

Purposes of student personnel work should be stated in specific behavioral goals for students, arrived at through staff and student interaction. Without specific direction student personnel work will continue to lumber along, an anachronistic appendage in higher education, until some educational crisis forces its whimpering demise. (Author)

The issue of quality in graduate programs is discussed generally, so that programs in the pharmaceutical sciences can be viewed in the broad context of science, rather than in the narrower confines of the profession of pharmacy. Consideration is given to goals, faculty characteristics, student quality, and development procedures. (LBH)

Rigorous professional standards and review procedures, appropriateness of program goals and activities, and use of mutually reinforcing pedagogical strategies are seen as typical of experiential learning in established graduate education programs. Twelve programs using experiential learning in graduate and professional education are examined.…

Two aspects of optometric preceptorships (off-campus field experience supervision programs) are discussed: the process of defining goals (long-term, specific learning, and general attitudinal and value); and the process of developing the program (initiation, site selection, preceptor selection and recruitment, participant selection, program…

The three broad goals of career education--learning to live, learning to learn, and learning to make a living--should be integrated into a lifelong educational process for the prime purpose of assisting every individual to become a fully capacitated, self-motivated, self-fulfilled, contributing member of society. The "guidelines" consider the role…

Included in this annual report is a description of the educational program offered at the National Institute of Technical Training in Israel. Specifically, the report lists: (1) the various subjects taught at the Institute, (2) courses of study, (3) entrance requirements, (4) student privileges, (5) obligations and loans, and (6) future projects.…

Moving problem-centered, experiential programs into the mainstream of graduate and professional education will require more formal mechanisms for leadership. Students of graduate education programs that infuse the disciplinary study of academe with the applied perspective of professional practice gain broader contact with the problems of the…

Purdue University's School of Pharmacy has developed goals for its professional degree program that emphasize problem-solving and lifelong learning skills leading to the advancement of pharmaceutical practice. The next step is to link learning strategies across courses. (MSE)

Guidelines of the Southern College of Optometry (Tennessee) for development and administration of student externships are outlined and discussed, including principles addressing the setting of aims, goals, and objectives; preceptor (supervisor) and site selection; preceptor training; assignment of externships; and evaluation of students,…

The aim of this document is to provide an alternative for those teacher educators who are committed to the development of professional competence in teaching but who find the present Competency/Performance Based Teacher Education (C/PBTE) approach to be unsatisfactory in certain significant respects. It is proposed to replace the popularized…

Presents the report of the AAMC Panel on the General Professional Education of the Physician and College Preparation for Medicine concerning the purposes of a general professional education, clinical education, admissions, promoting independent learning, curriculum development, and faculty involvement. (MSE)

The clinical method of legal instruction, its goals, resources, and the process of individualized clinical teaching are defined. The development of such a program at Cleveland State University and a study of the activities involved are described. Issues of program design and teaching, including the student teacher relationship, are addressed. (JMD)

Ninety-six nursing leaders participated in the conference to discuss nursing education, nursing service, and the role of the professional association. It was hoped that similar discussions on the local level would result. Speeches included "The Case for Creativity in Nursing" by Apollinia O. Adams and "Education for ????" separate presentations by…