Project IMAGES (Improving Management of Adults/Guiding and Educating Staff) was conducted throughout Pennsylvania to provide two three-hour training sessions for the special needs of both experienced and inexperienced staff of adult basic education programs. Instruction was given in the counseling areas of age variance management and the…

This booklet contains forms, strategies, and philosophies that have been successfully used at the TRIAD Teacher Center (West Lafayette, Indiana). TRIAD provides resources and services for 1600 elementary and secondary teachers and administrators in three counties. The center is staffed by three professional educators and is governed by a policy…

The goal of this publication is to provide rehabilitation facilities with a guide to improve their image in the community and increase contract sales, job placements, donations, and client numbers. It is intended (1) to assist them in identifying individuals or groups that facilities should be trying to reach with their public relations efforts…

A teacher inservice preference questionnaire was used to identify, categorize, and compare inservice preferences of educators, and findings indicated that workshops were ranked first as the inservice activity most preferred with conventions and professional conferences least preferred. Other categorical analysis indicated that professional…

Workshop proceedings in San Francisco and Los Angeles concerning the development of the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education (MATCHE) are examined in this report. Basic information gleaned from presentations, reports, and transcripts of taped lectures of both workshops are included. Subjects contained in the report are…

This package of instructional materials was designed to give workshop participants a practical experience with specific problems or situations, as well as criteria to use when developing written material for a variety of library instruction situations. Content consists of guidelines for developing written materials, some design and printing…

As a collection of articles this book is intended for use as a guide for planning and building teacher centers. The beginning articles tell how a combination of convictions, experience, high energy, and happenstance formed the first American teacher centers. The next several articles focus on practical matters such as staffing, needs assessment,…

Based on the Florida Linkage System Project, this training program introduces school personnel to methods and resources for group problem-solving and decision-making. The program focuses on developing and refining skills for communication, data gathering, problem analysis, decision-making, goal setting, and program development. A primary objective…

The School-Community Collaboration Project was conducted to train personnel to infuse career education elements into the ongoing educational process and to increase the involvement of parents and the employment community in the process. Five Massachusetts school systems participated in the project, including fifty-four educational personnel and…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO DEVELOP A PROGRAM FOR THE PREPARATION OF PERSONS TO BE EMPLOYED IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS IN VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION. IDENTIFYING AND SELECTING PERSONS IN MICHIGAN WITH LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL AND A BACKGROUND IN VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL EDUCATION, AND THEN PREPARING THEM TO FUNCTION AS ADMINISTRATORS WERE THE…

Module 3 of a seven module package for child protective service workers describes staffing and funding of parent aide programs for abused and neglected children and their families. Seven activities are geared toward development of an organization chart and job descriptions, completion of a budget estimate, and learning about sources of funding…

The manual for the development of general practice residency programs in dentistry is designed to be used in three regional workshops to train individuals representing institutions who wish to develop such programs. The first of three major sections in the manual reviews the historical background of general practice residency programs. In the…

This coordinator's guide is designed to assist in leading a workshop covering four competency based modules in Job Placement, Follow-Up and Follow-Through. The purpose of the modules is to help the placement coordinators plan, implement, and evaluate a program of job placement services in a school setting. The content areas of the four modules are…

This handbook is a general planning tool for child development groups that want to be more effective than they are. It is designed to help a group determine (1) its reasons for existence; (2) its aspirations for improving child development programs in the community; (3) its limitations; (4) what steps it needs to take to achieve its goals; (5) who…

Project goals for the year ending June 30, 1974 were to complete development of the model initiated in Sand Springs Public Schools during the 1972-73 school year, to provide dissemination of the model across the State, and to demonstrate the model in operation. Major efforts concerned instructional material revisions or development from the first…