This handbook helps school administrators and their colleagues plan and conduct educational workshops in their communities with or without help from universities or colleges. It can be used as a tool for staff development programs, and provides names and places that have used their communities as learning resources in the past two decades. The…

Part of a 13-volume series designed to be used as a group inservice or a self-learning system to train school administrators and counselors for their role in career education, this module (Module 7) consists of a series of readings and activities to aid the counselor in assessing the career education needs of youth. (It is one of six modules for…

This is the first of four modules on developing a comprehensive program of job placement services in a school setting. The prupose of these modules is to help the placement coordinator plan, implement, and evaluate a program of job placement services to meet student needs. The content areas of the four modules are (1) pre-employment, (2) job…

A central goal of this project was involvement of staff in school decision-making through management by objectives (MBO). The program was implemented simultaneously in three schools in the District of Columbia--Francis, Hart, and Gordon Junior High Schools. Methods included workshops and training sessions in MBO and problem-solving to help schools…

A series of five national instructor training workshops were planned for traffic court judges and administrators. A curriculum package which had been previously prepared was used to orient selected key personnel toward highway safety. Technical Education Research Centers (Midwest Center) conducted the conferences from October 23 to December 12,…

This report, initiated at the request of the Lincoln Trail College (LTC) faculty, provides a series of recommendations regarding a continuing professional development program specially tailored to meet the needs and characteristics of the staff at LTC. A questionnaire was developed to determine activity relevance and availability, preference…

As one component of the Midwest Center/Consortium for Planned Change, the Ohio Satellite aimed at making public schools aware of the need for the structuring of a fully-functioning guidance program, with teaming as a viable change and problem-solving process. A third goal was the recruitment of minority group members as "new…

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 Developmental Career Guidance Project objectives are: (1) to aid a selected group of inner-city high school students to raise and broaden their educational and occupational aspirations, (2) to develop a pilot program designated to better meet the needs of inner-city youth, (3) to involve the staffs of the participating schools in the program,…

A series of workshops were offered for vocational education administrators and researchers to train them in institutional research methods in a systems planning context. The basic purpose of the project was to provide an opportunity for vocational educators to become familiar with (1) research methodology; (2) to train vocational educators to…

Several career exploration workshops for nine teams of junior high school teachers, counselors, and administrators were held to: (1) provide an opportunity to learn about and develop skills applicable to the career exploration process, (2) assist the teams in the creation of career exploration program plans for their own schools, and (3) supervise…

The Project Library was established to serve chronic, mentally ill patients forty-five years and older by ascertaining their library needs and interests, as well as by developing specific library program formats for people who have been isolated from the community for long periods of time. To do this effectively, various levels of institution…

Three, 3-day seminar workshops were held at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, to provide 91 vocational research and administration personnel with current information regarding the management of programs by objectives, systems analysis procedures, and long-range planning techniques. Presessions were conducted in conjunction with the meetings of…

The Off-Reservation Boarding School (ORBS) Project, financed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, is described in this document, which was presented to participants at an ORBS Project workshop. The project was devised as a vehicle for supplying the answers to the following unanswered questions concerning Indian education: Should ORBS continue to serve…

Upper Iowa University implemented a staff development project to increase teacher competency in the education of adult students with learning disabilities. Participants were teachers of adult education classes throughout the State. The need for a staff development project for teachers with students at Level I (the concrete, beginning level) was…