The critical shortage of child care personnel trained to work with children from infancy through adolescence, calls for the creation of training programs at the subprofessional level. Intended for the day care and child welfare agency personnel, teachers, and others interested in training child care workers, this publication offers guidelines for…

This handbook concerns the objectives, procedures, and limits of adult school counseling, and provides guidelines for counselors in a large school system. It aims to make reasonably uniform the services offered in all adult schools, and to extend these services. The 11 parts of the handbook discuss the following: I. Administrative Policies, II.…

The fifth document in an eight-part series on a task-based management system for special education programs provides detailed procedures for use of the Behavioral Characteristics Progression (BCP), a listing of 1,800 behavioral characteristics of mentally and behaviorally handicapped pupils. Specified are techniques of observation and ways of…

This document is one part of a series intended to provide modern pattern books for architects and planners in need of practical solutions to specific problems. Each volume in the series is concerned with structures built for a specific purpose and contains several dozen projects, none more than a few years old, that are good examples of such…

This manual is designed to provide guidelines for the analysis of the costs of operating day care centers and not day care homes. Day care is defined as a broad term applied to a variety of programs that shelter preschool and school age children on something less than a 24-hour basis. The guidelines set forth by this manual aim to permit the…

This paper presents specific policies and regulations for business and noninstructional operations, personnel, students, and instruction. The report includes those special education policies and regulations needed to supplement a regular set. The inclusions are innovative rather than traditional and in keeping with the research literature. These…

The Facilities Committee of the Birmingham School District developed procedures for a thorough assessment of the buildings in the district. By March 1974, all buildings had been visited by an assessment team. A subsequent report submitted by the building principals contained the consensus judgment of the assessment team for each item assessed. At…

This booklet provides a brief overview of educational evaluation and presents basic guidelines for developing a cooperative school-community program of educational evaluation. It is designed for use in conjunction with a lengthy handbook, "Education for the People: Volume III," which explains in more detail basic principles and methods…

The curricula of industrial arts courses in the Asian Region are changing to a more general approach to arouse interest in, and simple understanding of, industry and industrial processes. Spaces for industrial arts should be less tightly tailored to the needs of specific subject fields than was the case in the past. In secondary general schools,…

The utilization of workshop accomodations in the countries of the Asian Region are examined and the study concludes that, in most schools, a single multipurpose workshop is more economical than the separate workshops for separate crafts that are in common use at present. Design criteria are developed for multipurpose "industrial arts"…

This coordination guide has been written as a reference for Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Prime Sponsor administrators, planners, and operations staff who are interested in pursuing coordination opportunities with Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) employment-related programs. It is intended to serve four major purposes: (1)…

Issues addressed by this committee of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy include: communication problems; admissions; entry-level, differential, and doctoral-level competence; curriculum components for competence attainment (externships/clerkships); and post-baccalaureate study on an extended basis. Definitions and the report of a…

An information industry analyst suggests ways for librarians to deal with the acquisition and use of CD-ROM technology in their libraries. Practical information is provided on needs assessment, purchasing, system standards, and user access and fees, as well as sources of optical disk systems and titles. (CDD)

When selecting audiotapes for use in foreign language classrooms, teachers should consider factors affecting listening activities, including: second language vocabulary level of students; amount of information students must retain; rate of speech; subject matter and factual knowledge level of students; and grammatical knowledge of students. (CB)

This article describes media resources available to help adolescents deal with a variety of social concerns, including substance abuse, dropouts, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), suicide, and pregnancy. A list of 56 companies that provide resources dealing with social issues is also provided. (LRW)