Students with low-incidence disabilities frequently receive less than optimal psychoeducational services because the specialized tests and instructional materials required to meet their idiosyncratic needs often are unavailable due to budget constraints, inadequate training of school personnel, and the difficulty school personnel have keeping…

The instructor-free, empirically-based training package is designed to teach personnel at all levels to develop and implement individual program plans for severely handicapped, developmentally disabled persons in their own agencies. The package consists of a six-chapter trainee workbook (individual program planning and the interdisciplinary team,…

In order to move beyond legal compliance to real equality of opportunity, every educational leader must develop some systematic means of extending his or her personal knowledge and skills with respect to Title IX. Provides a check list for self evaluation of educational leaders and a guide for developing an implementation plan for Title IX.…

The instructor-free, empirically-based training package focuses on planning for a program or total agency for severely handicapped, developmentally disabled persons and is intended to assist agencies develop a participatory management system for ongoing program planning and evaluation within the trainee's agency. The package consists of a trainee…

PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) was applied to a federal project developing curriculum materials for the mentally retarded. A 34-step process lattice and PERT chart were useful for long-range planning, supervising the activity, providing accountability, and training new staff members. (Author/DB)

A description is given of an intensive training program on the use of microcomputers which was implemented in a school district prior to the installation of the computers in the schools. Participants in the training program were elementary and junior high school teachers, and some administrators and secretaries. The format and sequential…

The manual (part of the training package, "Individual Program Planninq with Developmentally Disabled Persons", IPP) presents suggestions for administering training in individual program planning and for maintaining the IPP system. Discussed are the contents of the IPP training package, descriptions of the six training sessions, policies for the…

Four-H related inservice training refers to the ongoing, regular, and systemic preparation of county staff members. The areas covered are: (1) history, philosophy, objectives, and scope of Extension and 4-H and other youth work; (2) adult participation; (3) organization; (4) adult and junior leadership; (5) recognition and public relations; (6)…

In response to wide concern regarding the present state of school libraries in Alberta, Canada, and a strong perception that the quality of school library programs was deteriorating, the Department of Education devised a provincial statement of policy, guidelines, procedures, and standards designed to guide the development and implementation of…

This booklet outlines the details of a training workshop to provide Right to Read directors with the knowledge and skills necessary to develop comprehensive reading programs for their districts. In the first section, 26 criteria for the development of successful reading programs are listed under the three categories of organization and…

The module is one of a series of eight developed to provide inservice training for administrators of career education programs. It attempts to identify the essential components of comprehensive career education program development. A careful examination is made of the major components of program development: curriculum, staff development, guidance…

Because of a documented need for more and better trained vocational education teachers, including those from industry, an alternative approach to teacher preparation, called performance-based teacher education (PBTE), was developed. PBTE is an approach to instructor preparation in which (1) the training program is based on the competencies…

The guidelines are intended to assist the inservice program coordinator with a staff development program for comprehensive career education. The contents of the document cover the following career education topics: (1) overview; (2) the need for staff development; (3) roles and functions of the career education inservice coordinator; (4) initial…

This book is designed to help develop instruction in a vocational or technical field, according to procedures developed in the research laboratory and tested in the classroom. The steps involved in preparing instruction that can be demonstrated to facilitate learning are described. The main goal of the book is to describe the steps that must be…

Describes a staff-development program designed to assist content area teachers in learning about their students' reading abilities, in analyzing the readability of instructional materials, and in developing teaching techniques that match student reading skills to content area materials. (FL)