The purpose of this practicum was to develop a handbook that will be useful to principals in preparing their annual reports to their communities. The guideline for such a report was developed and disseminated to secondary principals. All 37 secondary schools' reports for the 1973-74 school year reflected the use of this guideline in preparing…

The purpose of this practicum was to change the grading policy in the San Juan Unified School District (California) through a two-state process. The first stage was to change the traditional ABCDF grading system to a three-scale grading system in one high school, one intermediate school, and six elementary schools serving the same attendance area.…

This booklet describes eight University of Washington teacher education projects in operation during the 1969-70 school year to develop and test various performance-based, field-experience approaches and a management system in which the university and cooperating school districts provided for released time for selected school personnel to serve as…

Pertinent literature on supervision was cursorily reviewed to provide a backdrop for this study, which extends the work of Payne and Gralinski. Technique-oriented supervision was compared with counseling-oriented supervision, with the employment of additional experimental and control groups. 54 male and 54 female undergraduates in Introductory…

A pilot inservice training program for supervising (cooperating) teachers was planned in which traditional roles were modified. It was theorized that decentralization of the responsibility for supervision of student teaching would allow better utilization of the college supervisor's training and time, opportunity for inservice growth and increased…

This paper examines the development of courses, materials, and techniques to help graduate students a) acquire experience with and knowledge of the development of children from conception to 8 years of age and b) develop skills to implement these experiences, especially in dealing with parents, teachers, and all involved in the early childhood…

A questionnaire was administered to the faculty and administrators of Valencia Community College to obtain answers to the following questions: (1) Will the present faculty organization meet the needs of a multicampus college? (2) Will the present system of administrative committees, councils, and task forces meet the needs of a multicampus…

To determine whether educational advisement by instructors at Santa Ana College and by credentialed counselors at Cypress College resulted in differences in the students' commitment to their originally selected program major, two groups of students who had completed a calendar year at the two California colleges were studied. A three-part…

This paper is a discussion of the emerging model of student development programming for the 1970's. After an historical sketch of Student Personnel Service, the affective domain of student development is detailed with regard to theory, instruction, counseling, and administration. (Author/DB)

The special education training program at the University of Northern Iowa provides a systematically integrated program designed to develop professional personnel with the requisite competencies to (a) diagnose and teach; (b) organize and supervise programs; (c) evaluate instructional programs; and d) train professional educators to implement…

The Clinical Approach to Teacher Education at Boise State Colleges places its students into two concurrent classes which run for two consecutive semesters and which emphasize the integration of theory and practice. Its ultimate goal is the development of a culminating year-long internship for the study of child behavior, curriculum, and…

The Children's House at Mankato State College serves as a teacher training facility with five major objectives: a) to develop an interdisciplinary program for pre- and in-service education for professional personnel; b) to provide teacher trainees with the opportunity to structure the environment for optimal child learning; c) to provide trainees…

Three practicum components are presented for consideration: A developmental reading practicum, a curriculum innovation practicum, and a reverse-student- teaching-assignment-level practicum. (DS)

A technique developed at SUNY at Stony Brook measures changes in second-year medical students' ability to recognize psychopathology following an educational program in psychobiology. It compares ratings of videotaped interviews by the students to the ratings of the interviews made by the faculty preceptors participating in the teaching program.…

A clinical pharmacy training program for undergraduate students developed at the University of Iowa provides conjoint training of pharmacy and dental students in the clinic areas and pharmacy at the College of Dentistry. (LBH)