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Strebel, Alexandra – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
Collective skill formation systems thrive if employers' skill needs are reflected in apprenticeship training programmes and firms offer apprenticeship positions. Occupation-level adaptation processes underpin these systems, which offer upper-secondary level vocational education leading to hundreds of occupations. Yet, it is considered challenging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Job Skills
Targ, Joan – Educational Computer, 1981
Describes the development of the Computer Tutor project in Palo Alto, California, a computer literacy pilot program in which tutors are used to teach high school students and other interested persons computer programing. (JJD)
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computers, Pilot Projects, Program Development
Bachtel, Dolores H.; Smallwood, Wayne N. – 1978
A group of 20 middle school students worked to improve the bowling, skating, and swimming skills of 50 moderately mentally handicapped children, while also providing the handicapped children with increased individual interaction, and increased social self-management skills. Assessment instruments were designed to measure the objectives. The…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation, Program Development
Lee, Jasper S. – 1971
To aid in the successful interdisciplinary team planning of vocational education, this study sought to determine: (1) which of certain selected skills in agricultural, distributive, home economics, office, and trade and industrial occupations are being taught at the secondary level, and (2) the similarities in selected instructional content in the…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Difficulty Level, Instructional Programs
Gass, Michael A. – 1985
In an effort to increase the application of "transfer of learning" (a phenomenon of connecting experiences encountered during an adventure activity to future situations) in the field of adventure education, workshops were presented at the 1984 Association for Experiential Education Conference at Lake Junalaska, North Carolina and the 1984 National…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Educational Strategies, Learning Experience, Learning Strategies
Stapp, William B., Ed.; Cox, Dorothy A., Ed. – 1974
This activities book for the senior high school level is the sixth book of a series of six books designed to provide developmental K-12 experiences designed to support the basic environmental philosophy of spaceship earth presented in Book 1. The aims of the four activity sections of this book are to aid in developing students to make them more…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Environmental Education, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities
Glasser, Roselyn; And Others – 1972
This publication is composed of four parts. Part I, The Final Report, consists of the program foundations, description of the target group, description of resources, analysis of processes developed, creating the resource role, creation awareness, developing a problem solving orientation, curriculum integration, evolution of the group process,…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Programs, Environmental Education, Problem Solving
Meissner, Margit – 1988
This paper presents the final report on the 1988 High School Vocational Interest Exploration Workshop (VIEW) program of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools. The 4-week summer program, funded through the Job Training Partnership Act, involved Level 4 special education students, aged 14 to 19. The program provided 1-week minicourses in…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Exploration, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Adams, Harvey B.; Wallace, Belle – Gifted Education International, 1988
Described is an approach to the teaching of thinking and problem-solving for gifted and regular education students, based on R.J. Sternberg's "Suggested Criteria for the Development of Thinking Skills Programmes." The program provides specific skills training and ample practice, emphasizes cooperative learning and motivation, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cooperative Learning, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Clifford, Jerry Ann – Gifted Education International, 1988
The Learning Enrichment Service encourages development of gifted adolescents as co-learners, offering screening, training, counseling, networking, and information exchange to four learning environments (specialized programs, enrichment talent pool, community resources pool, and regular classrooms). The Mentor Academy Program is a skill-based model…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cooperative Learning, Enrichment Activities, Experiential Learning
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Smith, Gayle; Smith, Don – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1989
A school-wide program was developed to teach study skills (involving cognitive strategies and school survival skills) to mainstreamed secondary-level students with learning disabilities. The program involved training teachers, synchronizing teaching schedules, and observing teachers. Students learned study strategies that transferred to content…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Inservice Teacher Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
MacCleave-Frazier, Anne; Murray, Eloise Comeau – 1983
This report offers materials from a project proposing a conceptual framework for teacher preparation for clothing program instruction. The project reflects contemporary and future concerns of individuals and families as well as the state of the art of clothing and textiles. The data collection procedures are described as well as questions that…
Descriptors: Clothing, Clothing Instruction, Family Problems, Higher Education
Arkansas River Education Service Cooperative, Pine Bluff. – 1990
A project was conducted to develop an integrated basic skills instructional program in an education service cooperative to serve grades 7-12 vocational students in 13 rural school districts in Arkansas (Grant and Jefferson counties) as a follow-up to the vocational assessment process. The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) chose the Arkansas…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Basic Skills, Cooperative Programs, Curriculum Development
Sitlington, Patricia L.; And Others – 1986
This sourcebook deals with the basic work behaviors and vocational skills that should be targeted in a secondary level program for students with autism. A chapter titled "The Vocational Training Continuum" presents the theoretical basis for developing a continuum of vocational experiences needed by the autistic learner. It describes existing…
Descriptors: Autism, Evaluation Methods, Job Skills, Job Training
Sanders, Nicholas M.; Chapman, Marian L. – 1977
This evaluation report focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of the 38 lessons in the 1976-1977 version of "Skills for Ethical Action," (SEA). SEA is a program based on a set of audiovisual instructional materials developed to teach junior high school students a behavioral strategy for acting ethically. The overall objective of the SEA…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Case Studies, Ethical Instruction, Feedback
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