The Library Aides Program, an Elementary and Secondary Education Act project, was begun in 1966 in the Pittsburgh public and parochial schools to provide a trained aide to assist the librarian with general and paraprofessional duties. An evaluation of the public school program was conducted (1) to determine how librarians and library aides divide…

The Library Aide Program has been operating in the Pittsburgh public schools since 1966. The program was initiated to relieve the librarian of some nonprofessional activities by providing her with a paraprofessional aide. The findings of the 1968 evaluation indicate that the librarians are satisfied with the aides, but there is no statistically…

A model for the development, validation and evaluation of drug abuse training packages in the area of psychological helping skills is presented and discussed. The model is viewed in terms of stages beginning with the preliminary stage of needs analysis and progressing on to course development, delivery and evaluation. (Author)

Presented is the program performance report of a project to train paraprofessionals in working with preschool handicapped children in Alaska. Accomplishments and attainments as well as slippages are reviewed for each of the program's three objectives: development of competency based training materials for paraprofessionals, training of…

Describes a program utilizing graduate students to train six low income women as Consumer Education Aides and to provide a consumer education class to 20 disadvantaged women. (SB)

This study was designed to: (1) evaluate the Community Librarians' Training Courses which had been conducted for five years in New York State to train persons without professional library training who were serving as librarians and (2) appraise the entire training program of the Library Extension Division in order to make recommendations and…

Part 1 of the report focuses on project operations to train paraprofessionals for employment in human services, briefly describing the community college instructional program with reference to enrollment, courses, grading, fieldwork, supportive services, proficiency examinations, preceptor training, articulation, the advisory committee,…

To provide a new source of manpower for Pennsylvania mental health facilities, a pilot associate degree program for the training of middle-level mental health workers was instituted at the Community College of Philadelphia. Specific objectives were: (1) to test the program's feasibility, (2) to identify skills and attributes required of an…

To evaluate the effectiveness of the teacher aide training program of the St. Bernard Parish Public School System in Louisiana, a research design based on the project's five objectives was formulated. The participants were tested to determine their gains in the acquisition of knowledge in the areas of child growth and development, media…

A program designed to teach the medical vocabulary required of tumor registrars was developed and administered to 33 persons, 31 of whom were employed at 25 Louisiana hospitals. The training program was administered as a correspondence course covering such topics as the purposes of a tumor registry and how the registry is established; how to code…

The Early Childhood Education Program at Essex Community College is used as a model to present the intentions, realizations, and disappointments of a new careers" program for inner-city resident adults. (CA)

This report describes a practicum project that was intended to develop, implement, and supervise a building teacher aide training program and to determine its impact on the performance of forty building teacher aides in the Dallas Independent School District. The design of the training program was to improve the performance of teacher aides in…

Alfred E. Blalock Elementary School was the recipient of local and compensatory funds during the 1972-73 school year. Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act contributed a lead teacher and educational aides for more individualized reading instruction for the lowest one-third achievers. The Career Opportunities Program allowed some of…

The pamphlet contains seven articles describing some of the in-service activities and stating conclusions reached in an adult basic education (ABE) staff development project in Minnesota. The purpose of the project was to establish a permanent delivery system for staff development at the local and State levels. Article titles and authors are:…

Four papers discuss training and personnel in early childhood education. The concepts developed by the Division of Training Programs in seeking to award a grant for planning inservice training programs are described by J. Gerald Minskoff as is the role of a training coordinator. An evaluation of a pilot program to train teacher aides is presented…