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Direct linkHansen, Joanna K.; Gable, Sara – Young Children, 2007
Research tells us that specialized training and education of teachers is one of the strongest predictors of child care quality. In the late 1960s, however, most states did not require preservice training or higher education for teachers in early childhood programs or family child care homes. At that time, Missouri wanted to develop a project that…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Design, Career Development, Child Care
Mississippi State Dept. of Education, Jackson. Bureau of School Improvement. – 1985
The materials in this document, which is to be used for teaching teachers and assistant teachers how to teach reading, are presented in five modules: (1) "Teaching Reading: An Overview for Classroom Teachers and Assistant Teachers"; (2) "Teaching and Reinforcing Word Recognition: What to do When a Child Doesn't Respond Correctly to…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Development, Instructional Improvement, Instructional Materials
Mirkin, Barry – 1983
The Wisconsin Foundation for Vocational, Technical, and Adult Education is currently involved in the development, implementation, and distribution of a sophisticated interactive computer and video learning system. Designed to offer trainees an open entry and open exit opportunity to pace themselves through a comprehensive competency-based,…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Electric Circuits, Electronic Equipment
Klem, Lynn – 1984
The New Jersey Adult Reading Project was a state project involving more than 500 New Jersey adult educators from 98 adult education programs around the state. The primary objective of the project was to develop a competency-based adult reading management system that would allow program completers to achieve the following goals: continue their…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Competency Based Education
Baker, Glenn E.; And Others – 1981
A project was undertaken to identify, develop, and test the effectiveness of a limited number of self-contained, individual learning modules about consumer topics that are especially appropriate to a variety of industrial arts courses given in secondary schools in Texas. Included among the project activities were the following: (1) identification…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Consumer Education, Educational Needs
Woodruff, Jane Bruner – 1986
This paper traces the evolution of curriculum reform in Mississippi from a state level, norm-referenced accountability system to a performance-based, centralized accreditation system that integrates instructional management requirements into improvement standards. Accountability legislation has primarily been concerned with quality of student…
Descriptors: Accountability, Board of Education Policy, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Development
