Discusses the criteria for developing and planning formal learning activities for members of a professional association. Includes eight predictors of success: (1) different entry levels; (2) distance study option; (3) membership maintenance; (4) levels of certification; (5) nomenclature; (6) a newsletter; (7) alumni services; and (8) marketing.…

Today's vocational education program can be traced to basic principles established during the formative period of vocational education. Although the implementation of vocational education may change, basic principles continue to stand. Four points of view, randomly selected from the past 200 years, which seem to be present in vocational education…

THIRTY-SEVEN VOCATIONAL EDUCATORS, EIGHT STAFF MEMBERS, AND 29 RESOURCE PERSONS PARTICIPATED IN A SEMINAR DESIGNED TO DEVELOP UNDERSTANDINGS, ABILITIES, AND ATTITUDES FOR MORE EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP BY THE PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL IN 11 WESTERN STATES AND GUAM. SUMMARIES OF THE FOLLOWING PRESENTATIONS ARE INCLUDED--(1) "HOW TO COMMUNICATE--ORAL…

Presents the American Vocational Association's sixteen resolutions that were adopted at the annual vocational convention. (SH)

The Vocational Education Personnel Development sessions at the American Vocational Association's 1975 Convention focused on professional development issues. Two presentations are summarized. The first speaker assessed higher education's capacity to train professional personnel for vocational personnel and found it wanting; the second speaker…

The American Vocational Association (AVA) Board of Directors met during the annual convention and took action on several fronts. Given high priority were increasing vocational education appropriations for 1979, improving CETA, increasing AVA membership, and strengthening black vocational education participation. (Editor)

Ways in which to organize a drive-in workshop are presented. They include selection of a chairperson, appointment of a steering committee, timing of the workshop, agenda, speakers, where to get information on drive-ins, awards, publicity campaign, and ways in which to boost membership in professional associations. (CT)

Underscores growing interest in community college occupational education. Discusses challenges and problems resulting from imitation and competition by industries and professional associations. Considers problems related to specialized accreditation, contact-hour regulations, policies impeding community colleges from meeting lifelong learning…

Dr. Bottoms discusses the type of leadership required of the American Vocational Association's Guidance Division to produce a comprehensive developmental and integrated program of career guidance in terms of what the program should entail and how it should be achieved. (bP)

This report is based on a study of new institutional arrangements and organizational patterns for continuing education in the United States during 1969. Two related parts give findings of questionnaire surveys and interviews in ten middle-sized New York State urban areas, and findings of a national study based on interviews, visits, and current…

Inservice technical upgrading of postsecondary vocational-technical instructors is a major problem for vocational-technical education. Staff development programs for these personnel are needed, but are often difficult to locate or to create. This paper is designed to provide persons involved in staff development or preparing a staff development…

The full texts of all prepared statements and supplemental materials presented during five days of oversight hearings held on rehabilitation of the handicapped programs and implementation of these programs by agencies under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 are contained in this document. Statements are made by (1) State and local directors and other…

A resource guide to assist inservice personnel to establish vocational education programs for severely handicapped individuals is presented. Section 1 summarizes issues in vocational services and training for severely handicapped persons. Section 2 contains brief descriptions of national agencies and organizations that relate in some way to the…