This study consists of a list of guidelines for the implementation and operation of a year-round school program. The list was developed from a survey of 120 school administrators, functioning at the superintendent, district, and unit school levels, who are involved in 45-15 year-round programs in 16 school districts throughout the country. These…

The manual provides personnel of educational cooperatives (confederations of local school districts) with information to stimulate involvement in special education (SE). Four basic divisions cover the following areas: definitions and other data deemed necessary for a basic knowledge of exceptional children's education in Appalachia; suggestions…

The guide for coordinators of cooperative office education in Virginia, the work of 138 coordinators participating in 36 in-service workshops, describes specific steps for developing and using training plans in cooperative office education. Five short chapters discuss the what and why of training plans, development and use of model training…

The three broad goals of career education--learning to live, learning to learn, and learning to make a living--should be integrated into a lifelong educational process for the prime purpose of assisting every individual to become a fully capacitated, self-motivated, self-fulfilled, contributing member of society. The "guidelines" consider the role…

This document sets forth the standards recommended by the Continuing Education Service-Continuing Education Unit (CES-CEU) Committee at Michigan State University for use during the test period, the 1973-74 academic year. Defining the CEU as "ten contact hours of participation in an organized continuing experience, under responsible…

The manual for business and office education in Washington is intended to assist all in-school personnel involved in cooperative occupational education (COE), and provides step-by-step guidelines for planning programs appropriate to each school's situation. COE combines classroom learning with on-the-job training to help each student prepare for…

This manual, aimed at all levels of educational development, presents procedures and suggestions for designing and conducting workshop in community-school relations. Part A discusses situations in which workshops can be beneficial, the objectives for a community-school workshop and the cost. Part B offers explicit directions for conducting the…

Management by Objectives is a system which allows an organization to plan its course of action, assist individuals contributing to that course, and determine progress toward mutually accepted goals. The system allows every individual in the organization regardless of level and responsibility to know what is expected of him, where he may look for…

This publication is designed to assist local school districts and other educational agencies in implementing career education in Idaho. Career education is part of a comprehensive education program and should not be conceived as a time segment of education such as vocational education or academic education. The basic educational objectives should…

Intended as an instructional guideline, the last of three reports on taxonomic instruction explains strategy development and use in instruction. The instructional content is reading, with a target population of emotionally disturbed, underachieving students. Strategies are defined as instructional actions resulting from a process of…

Guidelines and procedures which Texas Agricultural Extension Service personnel may use in working with local people in planning and carrying out county programs are provided in this handbook. The program building process is based on the philosophy that people have both the desire and ability to plan and carry out educational programs. The handbook…

Developed by a 25-member committee representing health service institutions, educational institutions, manpower organizations, and professional groups, this publication contains guidelines for use in developing programs for physician's assistants. Suggestions are made for: (1) determining the role of the physician's assistant in relation to other…

Provided is a guide for school districts interested in adopting the Helping Eliminate Early Learning Disabilities (HEELD) Program, an early childhood learning program developed and operated in Oregon. The HEELD program is described, and guidelines for implementing the four phases of the program are presented. Sections cover each of the phases as…

Described is the National Advocacy Project of the United Cerebral Palsy Association involving demonstration projects and model programs advocating the legal and human rights of the person with a developmental disability and his family. Goals and objectives of the project are listed as follows: improving the effectiveness of agencies and services…

On the premise that individualized instruction and its many variations has become increasingly more important to the vocational and technical educator, various aspects of an individualized instructional program are discussed under eight headings: (1) What Is Meant by Individualizing Instruction in Vocational and Technical Education? (2) Why Do We…