The resource room program at the Carterton Comprehensive School in England is discussed. The school teaches 750 11- to 16-year-old students with provision for up to 30 special education students. (PHR)

The primary purpose of this monograph is to describe how to develop and implement a career resource center, from conception to evaluation. Six brief vignettes are presented which focus on bringing career education into different types of schools. The purpose, goals, and functions of the career resource center are identified and related to the…

Details, first-hand, start-up year experiences of the Hershey Montessori Farm School in Huntsburg, Ohio. Describes the emerging organization of the project, including: full-time staff roles; the typical daily schedule; occupation projects for the 2000-2001 school year; and projects for 2000-2001 related to humanities, creative expression, physical…

This article describes how a school psychologist used her skills to develop materials, instructional methodologies, and assessment strategies to facilitate the vocational education of students with special needs. The role of psychologist, instructor, consultant, manager of facility, and researcher are described. The importance of training in…

Described is a Georgia county school system's program which began in 1972 for behaviorally disordered children (kindergarten through high school). Opening chapters include a rationale for the program, a definition of behavior disorders, and a list of program objectives such as identifying children with behavior disorders and assisting them to…

The Eckerd Wilderness Educational System provides emotionally disturbed children with alternative education in a year-round wilderness camp setting. Journal availability: see RC 503 504. (SB)

This final report presents an evaluation of the Designing and Implementing Programs for the Little School Component which is a program designed to develop, implement, and disseminate a program of individualized instruction at the Howard D. Woodson Senior High School. The purpose of the program is to improve academic achievement and student…

This document contains an overview of the Research for Better Schools (RBS) model for experience-based career education (EBCE). (Descriptions of two other EBCE models are included in ERIC documents CE 018 446 and CE 018 447.) Divided into eight sections, this document highlights some of the important features of the model and includes excerpts of…

Described is a multidisciplinary team approach to helping elementary and secondary students with learning or emotional problems to achieve educationally and socially. Resource room teachers and special education consultants, functioning as part of the full-time team in each school, work with the regular classroom teacher to meet student needs for…

This document contains an overview of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL) model for Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE). (Descriptions of two other EBCE models are included in ERIC documents CE 018 447 and CE 018 449.) Divided into thirteen sections, this document highlights some of the important features of the model and includes…

This document contains an overview of the Far West Laboratory (FWL) model for Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE). (Descriptions of two other EBCE models are included in ERIC documents CE 018 446 and CE 018 449.) Divided into seven sections, this document highlights some of the important features of the model and includes excerpts of…

This manual is designed for the administrator or coordinator responsible for implementing the World of Related Knowledge and Educational Development (WORK-ED) program in a school district. (The program is a career education course of study for ninth graders designed to enable students who have not chosen the traditional college prep high school…

This manual is designed to assist personnel responsible for training teachers in the implementation of the World of Related Knowledge and Educational Development (WORK-ED). (The program is a career education course for ninth graders developed to enable students who have not chosen the traditional college-prep high school course to make career…

This report outlines changes in training and education that have taken place in the 1960s and the first years of the 1970s in three countries of Eastern Europe--the German Democratic Republic, Poland, and the USSR. Compiled in the report is information from legal and assimilated texts, as well as from studies and reports, articles, and…