Findings from a study, which examined the development of leadership skills and roles among the teachers in a professional development school (PDS), indicate the emergence of a nontraditional teacher leadership paradigm at the PDS. In contrast to typical teacher leadership models, in which carefully selected and screened teachers are placed in…

This book is a practitioner's guide to presenting various compensatory learning strategies to adult students with learning disabilities. The introductory chapter defines key terminology related to adult learners, learning disabilities, and compensatory strategies; learning and learning-disabled adults; and the principles of adult learning. Chapter…

This guide is designed to help teachers respond to the changing needs of children, to changing knowledge about how children learn, and to the stress teachers experience in dealing with children's development. The first section of the guide addresses the topics of: (1) educational changes relating to children, teachers, classrooms, and basic…

Instructional materials are provided for a course that deals with improving assertiveness and attitude at work. Designed for use in a workplace literacy project, the course, developed by Mercer County Community College (New Jersey) and its partners, is also intended to teach students techniques of dealing with difficult people and effective…

This volume contains five reports of practitioner research projects within adult education programs in Virginia. "Learning in Everyday Life" (Susan Erno, Diane Foucar-Szocki) explores use of a monthly calendar as a time management and goal-setting tool for adult learners in a workplace setting. "Factors Related to Student Retention…

This textbook is designed to prepare college freshmen for their undergraduate career. Organized in 15 chapters the course introduces basic academic and study skills as well as suggestions for thinking about a career choice, and responding to the social challenges of campus life. Chapter One, "Keys to Success," discusses setting goals and the value…

This workbook is one component of the Career Survival Kit prepared for teenage parents in Wisconsin. Designed to be used with a companion visual," Teenage Parents; Making It Work," (one of the two visuals included in the complete kit) the workbook information and activities for teens to use to strengthen their skills in the following…

Predicated on the notion that workers will need to transfer new skills to a variety of situations, this document is intended to teach industrial trainers in Britain how people learn and how to train individuals to become independent learners as well as capable performers of specific job skills. The first section of the book is a mixture of…

This document, one in a series of booklets containing research reports on vocational counseling and guidance, was prepared by the Canada Employment and Immigration Commission. Eleven articles are contained in this collection. Four of the articles form a series on how adults' concerns about work change with age, including the vocational development…

This unit, one in a series of packets of teacher and student materials for cooperative occupational education (COE) designed for special needs students, is intended to develop student awareness of the importance of budgeting both time and money. It shows the relationship between the amount of time one works and how much one earns; and it provides…

This module on successful study habits is one of a series of modules designed to help teach students to become more self-sufficient in their personal and professional lives. This module contains teacher and student materials that are planned to allow students to identify areas that they need to improve in order to perform their best in school and…

This instructor's guide was designed to help teachers present a performance-based course in family management and economics to high school students. The guide contains a listing of the modules contained in the student modules with suggested levels and courses for teaching; additional learning experiences; lists of supplemental resources and…

This nutrition and food management curriculum guide includes resources within two sections. The first section (Unit I) emphasizes food management and stresses resource management, time management, and coordination of departmental resources. A variety of forms are provided to facilitate recordkeeping, budgeting, and departmental organization. The…

The implementation and results of the Virginia Student Transition Program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Tech) are described. The objective of the 5-week summer program is to facilitate the enrollment and retention of black college students with slightly lower than average aptitude scores through the development of…

With a goal of forming interventions and programs to address needs of student athletes (such as group and individual career interventions as well as time management training), this study compared attitudes of 73 freshman athletes and 73 nonathlete freshmen at the University of Maryland toward their college experience. A questionnaire concerning…