An approach to training new administrators is outlined that has four advantages: (1) identifying job responsibilities and matching them with available human, machine, or material resources; (2) compiling instructional units for each of those responsibilities; (3) presenting the units in logical order, allowing for discussion and assimilation; and…

THIS COLLECTION OF PAPERS WAS PRESENTED AT AN INSTITUTE AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY IN APRIL 1964. VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND WORK-STUDY PROGRAMS FOR EDUCABLE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED PUPILS ARE DISCUSSED IN RELATION TO THE FUNCTIONS OF THE VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION ADMINISTRATION, THE ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF A PROGRAM, PLANNING THE CURRICULUM,…

The 31 papers in this book ar grouped into 5 sections, of which the first consists of an introductory essay by A. Ciofalo, "What Every Professor and Worksite Supervisor Should Know about Internships." Section 2, on learning from experience, contains "Perspectives on Learning in Internships" (D. T. Moore); "Integrating the Traditions of…

The purpose of this document is to provide educational researchers and administrators with the material needed to replicate the study, Assessment of School-Supervised Work Education Programs, within a sphere of interest limited geographically, vocationally, or in other functional ways. The procedures used to carry out this study and produce its…

This booklet describes specific proposed and/or implemented strategies for dealing with some of the problems encountered in the CETA program. These strategies are directed toward four goals: (1) helping those who need help most; (2) creating a jobs program that goes where the jobs are: the private sector; (3) better management, delivering more job…

This guide is intended to assist coordinating teachers in Manitoba in facilitating school and community efforts in developing and improving educational experiences in the workplace. The following topics are covered: the nature and scope of work education (what work education is, programs using it, objectives and outcomes, and related instruction);…

This handbook has been developed through an interdisciplinary approach so that it can be used for any cooperative education program that might be proposed or in existence in the State of Idaho. The handbook was written to serve as a guide for those schools and districts that are considering using such a plan. The handbook, a program management…

This monograph, one of a series prepared for the Employment and Training Administration, attempts to provide a new approach to on-the-job training (OJT) and to offer the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) prime sponsors a basis for new programmatic directions. The monograph is divided into seven chapters. Subject areas included are…

Selected examples of successful approaches, innovations, and techniques in rural manpower programs were analyzed to provide new organizations with blueprints of workable program operations. Attention was focused on such areas as recruitment and selection, trainee orientation, economic development, job placement, on the job training, interagency…

This handbook is designed to assist those responsible for managing cooperative work experience programs at Oregon high schools and community colleges. The coordinator's responsibilities have been broken down into specific tasks and the steps for successfully completing each. These are grouped under the following subheadings: (1) administration…

This monograph, one of a series on Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) program models, is designed to make available to prime sponsor staffs the lessons some of their colleagues feel they have learned from service in CETA and previous programs. The content is in seven sections. The first discusses the philosophy and purpose of…

The report describes the development of the Youth Training in the Private Sector Model for conducting on-the-job training for high school age youth. It is based on a two-year study of the Vocational Exploration in the Private Sector (VEPS) Program in New York City, which placed potential dropouts in work/training positions in the private sector…

The Australian engineering company, Jaques, and Swinburne University of Technology conducted a joint project to write more than 190 operating instructions for the company's 77 employees. First, the university's Workplace Skills Unit (WSU) interviewed 75 production workers to identify their language, literacy, and training needs. The WSU negotiated…