The first section of the manual for developing career education in existing Louisiana senior high school programs is an introduction to the concept and rationale of career education and to the roles of career education personnel. Section 2 is a unit on human values and relations which provides an introduction and rationale for the following…

In order to bring the student's contemporary environment into the classroom for study and to avoid topicality, this book provides general principles by which to evaluate current media offerings, outlines the patterns from which media materials are cut for public consumption, and focuses the student's attention on the mass media themselves. Each of…

This research guide provides an overview of the basic concepts as well as a comprehensive list of references that can help both the beginning and advanced speaker. Emphasis in this document is placed on researching, writing, and delivering a speech. In addition to information on finding and developing a topic, the book contains a chart of the…

This guide offers a complete listing of selected guidance films, filmstrips, slides, audiotapes, videotapes, scripts, charts, bulletins, pamphlets, exhibits, posters, and books available free to guidance personnel. For the convenience of the user, the guide is first grouped by areas of guidance, followed in turn by all filmstrips and slides, then…

This document presents a rationale for the use of women's studies courses in teacher education programs and offers suggestions concerning possible topics to cover, books to read, and projects to do. It stresses that women's courses are ideally team taught and nonhierarchical, placing a strong emphasis on student involvement in the direction of the…

A guide for agencies in setting up new employee development programs or a tool for assessing existing ones, the paper presents an eight-step process for organizational training. Step 1 commences with the identification and ranking of learning needs, or conducting a needs assessment. Step 2, selection of learning objectives, includes a job analysis…

California State University, Chico (CSU, Chico) has had a teacher center program underway for two years. By coupling the concept of centers with the traditional California requirement of a fifth year of professional training for preservice teachers CSU, Chico has designed, within a 70-mile radius of the campus, 14 teacher training centers, each…

Numerous studies have investigated the relationship between educational resources and learning. Many researchers have used the production function form of input-output analysis in an attempt to determine the relationship between certain output indicators (e.g., reading achievement) and certain inputs (e.g., pupil-teacher ratio). Measures of input…

This volume contains descriptions of 40 educational programs in the Eugene, Oregon, public schools. This data was collected from interviews with personnel in each program and from the district's budget work-book. The program descriptions cover educational legislation that pertains to each program, program objectives and methods, resources, staff,…

This annotated bibliography summarizes 12 selected publications concerned with the general topic of management by objectives. The selections are intended to give practicing educators easy access to the most significant and useful information regarding management by objectives that is available through the Educational Resources Information Center…

This publication concerns three environmental education study projects designed to help the college instructor, student, or group of students in identifying environmental problems at the community level and helping to find solutions to them. It discusses the need for and use of environmental problem solving and includes some factors involved with…

This bibliography lists recent books, articles, masters' theses, and doctoral dissertations dealing with the subject of school discipline. Entries are limited to materials that have appeared since an earlier bibliography on this topic was published in March 1972. Sources consulted in preparing the bibliography include the Bibliographie du Quebec,…

For media center volunteers or inexperienced technicians, a workshop training guide provides reference and assistance in everyday problems and situations that arise in an instructional material center (IMC). Two five-hour days of instruction and participation, using the guide, are suggested for workshops. Step-by-step processing of book materials,…

A survey was conducted among Lutheran pastors to: (1) identify their learning priorities; (2) determine the effect of longetivity on these priorities; (3) determine the differences in their learning priorities according to geographical location; and (4) determine their perceptions of the adequacy of learning resources available to them. A survey…

This collection of activities, experiences, and resources focuses on the man-made environment. The activities and resources were compiled to facilitate a program based upon the teacher's and student's own living experiences in their own environment. The goals of the program are to develop the individual's awareness of his environment and…