Significant speeches, current research activities, and minutes of business meetings are reported for the conference attended by 74 participants and guests from 12 states and the U.S. Office of Education. Major presentations were: (1) "Whither Vocational and Technical Education, (2) "Department Position Paper on Vocational…

The 42 chapters of this book, each contributed by an experienced supervisor of a business education program and a master teacher of business subjects, were originally published in the 1962-1965 May issues of the "National Business Education Quarterly." Part I gives a brief history of administration and supervision in business education with…

One hundred books, articles, and papers published between 1959 and 1968 are listed in this annotated bibliography of selected documents on teacher education in the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) collection. Summaries of topics with references to document numbers are included in Part 1, and abstracts to which the summaries are…

This study sought to identify factors which facilitate or deter leadership expression in rural extension specialists. Questionnaires were sent to specialists in ten states who devoted 50% or more of their time to extension work in production, management, and resource use, and to those working in marketing. Evaluations were secured from…

As one part of a volume of abstracts of studies of the last decade primarily in the vocational and technical field, this report includes 139 abstracts in the categories of philosophy, psychology, sociology, statistics, supervision, and technical education. The abstracts in philosophy treat the development of trade and industrial education,…

The paper describes a systematic observation instrument designed to describe settings in which young children and adults interact. The Early Childhood Setting Observation Instrument (ECSOI) provides a comprehensive matrix of categories useful in describing and analyzing adult-child interactions. Adult behavior categories included in the matrix…

This practicum report describes an effort to develop an effective teacher and administrator evaluation system for a small suburban school system in Connecticut. Besides meeting the requirements of a mandate from the state legislature, the system was also intended to enable the local school board to implement an incentive pay plan. A narrative…

The International Center for Social Gerontology (ICSG) is making available this translation of a timely study by Ernst Noam which describes and compares legislation, policies, and procedures for licensing, supervision, and inspection of homes for the aged in various Western and Eastern European nations. This study is presented to help provide a…

The purpose of this study was to gather data and test the hypothesis that the number of constant dollars expended for educational supervision by Louisiana public school systems increased during the decade from 1963 to 1974. To facilitate comparison of expenditures from different years, all financial data are expressed in terms of "constant…

The purpose of the practicum was to improve specific supervisory skills of the administrators in the Newington (Connecticut) public schools. The practicum was also intended to increase the amount of time spent by administrators in various categories of supervisory activities. Treatment included administrative focusing efforts, a planned and…

The importance of the selection process involved in setting up a reading resource teacher training program is stressed. Mentioned are three factors found to be crucial in selection: assignment to the program must be voluntary, the volunteers selected must be persons highly respected by their colleagues, and each potential reading resource teacher…

In this statement, structural and operational aspects of licensing by welfare departments are analyzed. The philosophy of licensing, and the underlying principles are defined and the licensing of child care facilities is presented as a preventive social service in the form of legal regulation. A comprehensive discussion of child care licensing is…

The Urban Teacher Corps was developed to attract and train young men and women to teach in inner-city schools and simultaneously to have them experiment with and develop curriculum materials appropriate to urban youngsters, particularly in terms of increased motivation and involvement. The three essential components of the training program which…

To prepare prospective elementary teachers for inner-city schools, this program was initiated at the University of Minnesota. Background knowledge concerning the family, the child, and the community gives the student teachers an understanding of the sources of problems encountered in inner-city classrooms. Resource people from the community and…

A two-part pilot study was conducted to examine the feasibility aspects and problems encountered in the experimentation and adaptation of the portable video recorder and micro-teaching techniques. The effective adoption of these innovations to vocational-technical teacher education programs requires systematic research and experimentation. Study…