A review of the literature of Performance Based Teacher Education (PBTE) programs indicates a void in the area of human skills teacher training. In response to this lack of relevant research, this paper presents a view of how group counseling procedures can successfully be integrated into PBTE as an approach to humanistic skills training. With…

This paper provides guidelines for the development of three distinct approaches to teaching interpersonal communication: a humanistic approach, a skills-oriented approach, and a business-oriented approach. For each approach, it describes assumptions underlying the development of curriculum, suggests questions for use in the generation of study…

Research studies in which severely retarded adults have been trained to perform complex industrial tasks are reviewed. It is explained that results demonstrate that retarded workers can learn to insert electronic components into a printed or etched circuit board. Reported is a pilot study which is investigating two adult retardates' ability to…

The role of decision making and keystroking in the psychomotor activity of office typing tasks was assessed for second-semester, fourth-semester, and terminal college students under three different work conditions: (1) pre-arranged, (2) unarranged without erasing errors, and (3) unarranged with erasing errors. All differences for main effects for…

The guide was developed as part of Project Prepare, a demonstration program designed to teach disadvantaged parents adult basic education skills and to show these parents how and what to teach their preschool children. It contains activities, advice, and resources for parents. All materials pertain to creative play for preschoolers that develop…

The competency-based curriculum developed by the College of Public and Community Service (CPCS) at the University of Massachusetts at Boston is discussed in this paper. The primary purpose of the college is to develop a curriculum preparing students to secure professional jobs in public and community service (as opposed to going to graduate…

The authors, based on their long experience in helping children and adults to think and function more creatively, express their conviction in the possibility of increasing the creativity of people through special instruction. Many experiments have shown that, although some types of warm-up and reward conditions increased the chances of creative…

This textbook attempts to clarify the nature of teaching during the field experience or simulation of that experience for student teachers. The text takes a data-based approach to the development of teaching skills. It is divided into seven chapters. The first chapter, "Systematic Improvement of Teaching Skills," is a narrative…

Preschool readiness measures were secured on 35 pairs of disadvantaged 2- to 3-year-old lower SES black children, representing large and small families, to determine the impact of family size on readiness profiles. The findings reveal that blacks from small families achieved significantly higher scores on 3 of the 9 skill areas: Visual Memory,…

A resource book intended as a teaching aid for preschool teachers, this compilation includes those ideas that have been used with success with children three through five years of age. The curriculum material is presented in outline format under the following headings: Subject of Interest; Basic Understandings; Additional Facts the Teacher Should…

The Career English Curriculum Guide has been prepared to better equip students with communication skills required in the working world. Basic skills of reading job-related materials and writing brief resumes are blended with the less measurable skills of developing good relationships with fellow employees and good attitudes toward work in general.…

The workbook has been designed to provide reference materials and practical applications for government clerical assistants. The objectives of the seminar-workshop are two-fold: (1) to provide the worker with the opportunity to refresh, update, and build his clerical abilities; and (2) to increase the worker's value as a clerical employee to his…

The publication provides a collection of descriptions representing a broad cross section of State adult education programs which have integrated career education into their curricula. Career education in this resource has been defined to include career awareness, orientation, skill development or other career education goals as defined by the…

Worcester-Dynamy, an educational center that brings together student interns aged 16-20, a staff of advisors, and regional learning resources is designed to assist participating interns to learn about society first-hand, develop strengths and skills in decision making and communications, test vocational and career interests, define their values,…

The Project 60 group was an experimental group of 53 disadvantaged students who would not have been admitted to Middlesex Community College through the regular admissions procedures. They had a high school average of 1.7 and were largely below average in reading, math, and composition, both in high school grades and individual testing. Project 60…