Curricular and instructional issues are discussed in 12 articles by faculty of the Connecticut community colleges. Jack McLean examines the potential role of community colleges in international education, and Kerin Sarason proposes teacher self-evaluations to reduce faculty/administrator tension. Jean Burr Smith introduces methods of reducing math…

The Basic Medical Specialist course has one of the largest enrollments of the U.S. Army's Academy of Health Sciences; 11,000 soldiers were trained in this course in 1977 and 1978. Training encompasses both emergency first aid (for field medics) and basic nursing skills. A task force working to improve Army training developed this course, in…

Using an itinerant team of professional rehabilitation personnel, a three-year project was conducted in West Virginia to provide the older blind in three counties (Cabell, Wood, Kanawha) with comprehensive rehabilitation services in both the home and community so that they could become as independent as possible, and, if possible, obtain gainful…

Ten major activities comprised the development of the Oregon State Plan for Career Education. (1) An advisory group was formed to provide advice and assistance during the developmental stages. (2) It was determined to base the plan on an assessment of student needs. (3) Goals in the areas of career awareness and exploration were evaluated and…

Developed by the National Association of State Boards of Education/Louisiana Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)-Education task force, this position paper describes the potential for CETA/Vocational Education collaboration, particularly CETA-Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA)/Vocational Education coordination, in…

The Community Development Education Center (CDEC) at William Rainey Harper College serves the educational needs of local government officials by providing workshops and seminars pertaining to significant issues of local government. In order to evaluate past programs and plan for future programs, a survey instrument was sent to former participants…

This report describes an inservice teacher education program that had special emphasis on multicultural education, initiated by the Teacher Corps at the University of Southern California. The children in the elementary school involved in the project were mainly Spanish-speaking Mexican-Americans. The objectives for the project were to: (1) retrain…

This volume is the first of five volumes describing a systematic approach for constructing task inventories, surveying the task performance of occupations, and analyzing survey data to determine the appropriate performance content for job training. (The approach, referred to as the task survey process, is designed to be of value to both…

During the academic years 1975-1977 a model program was developed for recruiting, training, and placing technically competent community college students as teaching assistants to secondary school vocational education teachers. Students selected enrolled in a basic teaching methodology course and were placed in an area high school vocational…

A young Spanish woman was given 82 hours of individual instruction in English. Her exposure to and use of English were confined to these lessons. The subject acquired adjective-noun ordering and regular plural relatively quickly; possessor-possessed ordering and genitive relatively slowly; the definite article all at once after a period of…

This monograph describes techniques and methods which may be used by parents, teachers, and other educators who are working to make schools more responsive to students from different language and cultural backgrounds. Emphasis is placed on the techniques and methods used by anthropological fieldworkers to study culture and their usefulness in…

Three papers on home economics education which were presented at a teacher education leadership conference on the development of common core curriculum for vocational education teachers are contained in this booklet. The title and authors are as follow: "Non-Degree Inservice Education Program," by Delores Allenspach; "Job Training Teaching Methods…

The efforts of a group of Quinault parents and the Early Childhood Education program of Edmonds College resulted in the establishment of a quality child care program which is parent managed, relevant to the community, and able to meet state requirements for day care. Funded by a Technical Assistance Contract and administered by Alaska Federated…

In the fall of 1977 a four year project was initiated to assist a group of Micmac and Maliseet Indians to earn the Bachelor of Education degree and become eligible for teacher certification. The 41 participants were teacher's aides who wished to be upgraded to classroom teachers. To allow students to maintain their full time jobs, an on-campus,…

DATA AVAILABLE FROM 3 STATES WITH LARGE MEXICAN AMERICAN POPULATIONS INDICATE THAT REFERRAL TO AND ENROLLMENT IN SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSES OCCURS AT A PERCENTAGE TWICE THAT OF THE PROPORTION OF MEXICAN AMERICANS TO THE GENERAL POPULATION. REASONS FOR SUCH ENROLLMENT ARE ATTRIBUTED TO--(1) MEDICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS, (2) ECONOMIC…