The University, in consortium with Project SPRED (Southwestern Connecticut Title III ESEA agency) proposes a program to provide preservice training of paraprofessionals to work with media specialists and school faculty as media aides. Recently adopted standards and difficulties arising from the use of untrained persons attest to the need. Efforts…

Following the decision to establish a new university at Boca Raton, the Board of Control of Florida's Board of Education appointed a committee to revise, refine and develop plans for the new institution and to make preliminary estimates of space requirements and costs. The plans and proposals in this report represent a thorough study by the…

Problems which will fact reading teachers in the future are discussed, and innovative possibilities are described. The following conclusions are reached. Varying environments create greater differences in children than existed previously, making individualized instruction necessary. Technological progress has opened new fields to education which…

All relevant documents processed by the Educational Research Information Center system through August, 1969, on the subject of Instructional Materials Centers are listed and synopsized in this pamphlet. The length of each document is noted and information supplied on the method of obtaining hardcopy and microfiche copies. Most of the documents…

The aim of this project is to contribute to the development of quality education by improving the selection and use of educational media by students and educators. Questionnaires were used to screen all known facilities in the United States. Of those having one or more aspects of an educational media selection center program, 38 were selected for…

Information is presented regarding--(1) types of audiovisual materials in the instructional program, (2) selection and placement of screens, (3) classroom acoustics and sound systems, (4) educational television, (5) provisions for nonprojected visuals, and (6) provisions for functional storage and storage within classrooms. Consideration is also…

The 1960's witnessed in Europe the development of distant study systems based, to begin with, essentially on radio and/or television together with correspondence courses. In secondary education these included the German Telekolleg and the French RTS Promotion, produced under the auspices of the Office Francais des Techniques Modernes d'Education;…

The catalog lists various commercially prepared media materials available on loan from the Westside Area Career Occupation Project (WACOP) Media Center for evaluation prior to school or district purchase. Among the types of media specified are: books, kits, cassettes, films, instructional units, transparencies, posters, pamphlets, and magazines.…

This bibliography on the American Indian was compiled and used by a group of ninth grade students at Culbreth School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, as a result of their working on an exchange with a group of Indian students from nearby towns. The purpose was to provide the ninth graders with a better understanding of the background of the Indian…

An evaluation is provided of ten fundamentally different techniques applicable for choosing instructional media for proposed Navy training programs. The evaluative method used employed six training system designers, each of whom applied the chosen techniques to a sample of seven representative training tasks. The results of these applications were…

A scale was developed for judging the relative value of various media in teaching children. Posttest scores were partitioned into several components: error, prior knowledge, guessing, and gain from the learning exercise. By estimating the amounts of prior knowledge, guessing, and error, and then subtracting these from the total score, an index of…

Intended primarily as an aid for secondary teachers of American literature, this book discusses fiction in which the hero is a young person. The techniques of teaching content and style of literature are presented. Twenty-three works of fiction are considered. (DB)

The material reviewed in this edition is loosely divided into categories--process learning, educational environments, classroom materials, home learning, self discovery, and education and consciousness. As in previous editions of the catalog, education is defined in its broadest sense, so that the material reviewed is suitable for many age groups…

This teacher-aid book discusses: (1) Setting the Creative Climate; (2) Description; (3) Writing Stories; (4) Writing Poetry; (5) Creative Writing Projects; and (6) Maintaining the Creative Climate. A short bibliography of works that are either folk tales or poetry is given. (DB)

This guide outlines a course designed to give first-line supervisors in the federal government an understanding of leadership concepts. The methodology of the course is a series of problem-solving conferences. There are 16 sessions in the course: 1. Problem census and introductions; 2. The job; 3. Filling a job - Federal Merit Promotions Policy;…