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McNamara, Robert J.; Kamen, Charles S. – 1967
This study of the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) was prepared for the national office describing the in-school programs funded and in operation for the 1967-68 academic year. It was based on responses from 1257 project officials representing an enrollment of 102,468 youths. There were 490 urban projects, 703 rural projects, and 64 "mixed…
Descriptors: Demography, Disadvantaged Youth, Enrollment, Federal Programs
Painter, Lorene H. – North Carolina English Teacher, 1968
The duties, problems, compensation, and selection procedures of department chairmen in secondary schools need to be clarified. Present duties of an English department chairman include developing an educational philosophy and curriculum for the department; suggesting materials and teaching methods; protecting teacher welfare; working with all…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrators, Department Heads, Educational Administration
Jelinek, James John, Ed. – 1977
The manuscript contains 48 essays commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Far Western Philosophy of Education Society. Topics included are cultural awareness; the teaching of values; philosophy and teacher education; humanistic education; existentialism and education; the nature of man; and the educational philosophies of Abraham J. Heschel,…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Creativity, Cultural Awareness, Democratic Values
Fedje, Cheryl; Harouff, Marge – 1976
The handbook is designed to provide assistance to school personnel in the development and operation of a cooperative occupational home economics program. It can serve as a guide to the teacher-coordinator as a new program is developed or as a resource for strengthening an existing program. Topics covered in the handbook's 22 chapters are:…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Advisory Committees, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Swartz, Ned K. – 1975
A mail survey was conducted to study the differences among group ratings of the same instructor. A population of 72 teachers of differing background levels, teaching in the field of trade and industrial education, was selected. Each instructor was rated by one school administrator, a local supervisor, two teaching colleagues, all of the students…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Evaluation Methods, High School Students, High Schools
Heissler, John M. – 1968
A fact-finding survey based on a questionnaire answered by 418 Illinois English teachers examined the teaching of language arts in grades 7, 8, and 9 in Illinois. It showed that teachers get very little supervision, that they feel that they need improvement in teaching composition, reading, and the "new grammar," and that composition…
Descriptors: Departments, English Instruction, Inservice Teacher Education, Junior High Schools
Department of Elementary School Principals, Washington, DC. – 1969
The 16 articles in this collection discuss the professional negotiation movement and its implications for principals. Included are a series of articles from The National Elementary Principal that deal with trends in professional negotiation and the principals' role. The collection is directed toward principals with the stated aims of: (1)…
Descriptors: Administrators, Collective Bargaining, Community Control, Curriculum Development
Office of the Army Headquarters Commandant, Washington, DC. – 1965
This instructional guide to civil defense shelter management is given as an aid to shelter survival techniques rather than to shelter comfort. The basis, purposes, and organization of shelter administration are outlined, with instructions on--(1) shelter management, (2) shelter teams and functions, (3) supplies and locations, and (4) daily shelter…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrators, Building Operation, Coordination
Dunn, Charles L. – 1973
The author reports on a program designed to improve the skills of staff members in recognizing, and adapting instructions to, the varied learning styles, abilities, and affective needs of pupils in an ethnically unbalanced "pocket of poverty" elementary school. The staff included paraprofessionals and teachers of reading, mathematics,…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Doctoral Dissertations, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Research
Robinson, Boyd Fillmore, Jr. – 1971
A "gatekeeper" is an individual within a communication system who, through a process of selection, restricts the flow of information to the receivers. To investigate certain demographic characteristics and opinions which influence county supervisors (gatekeepers) in the selection of publications for dissemination to vocational agriculture…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Communication (Thought Transfer), Criteria, Demography
Vermont Univ., Burlington. Extension Service. – 1972
A five-sided program for helping rural families in Vermont is summarized. Help is being given to agriculture, the home, the young people, the underprivileged, and the community itself. The overall aim is a balanced environment. It is pointed out that change characterizes rural Vermont and that a need for a balanced environment is slowly being…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Economic Progress, Economically Disadvantaged, Environmental Standards
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Knafl, Kathleen Astin – Nursing Outlook, 1979
The author describes nurse practitioner students' evaluation of their clinical experience in three course practicums. The students valued the opportunity to actively apply newly learned knowledge and skills in a realistic context through working with a faculty preceptor in a clinical setting. (MF)
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Course Evaluation, Field Experience Programs, Job Skills
Dellinger, Dixie – Quarterly of the National Writing Project and the Center for the Study of Writing, 1988
Evaluates the National Writing Project (NWP) from a personal perspective. Notes that the greatest problem facing NWP teachers is their loss of autonomy under state-mandated reform movements. Asserts that the NWP should deal with these reforms by gathering evidence that NWP teaching methods improve student achievement. (MM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
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Housego, B. E. J.; Grimmett, P. P. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1983
The dichotomy between two concerns of student teaching supervision (emphasis on interpersonal helping relationship versus task-oriented, performance-based approach) is examined. Suggests dichotomy is fallacious, presents a typology of approaches, maintains student teaching supervision is a teaching process calling for supervisor variability of…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Techniques, Competency Based Teacher Education, Helping Relationship
Georgeson, Tina G.; Gann, Cory G.; Nourse, Steven W. – 2003
This paper asserts that the tenets of a constructivist educational philosophy best meet the needs of special needs students (e.g., those who are limited English speaking, bilingual, low income, and homeless). The first section presents the tenets of a constructivist teaching philosophy. The second section discusses the implementation of best…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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