A two-day workshop for beginning school system supervisors and consultants was held in Edmonton, Alberta, to heighten awareness of supervisory tasks, develop skills, and stir interest in professional growth. Program goals and topical themes--communication, interpersonal relations, supervisory strategies, and time management--are discussed.…

A checklist to help physical educators determine whether their programs are in compliance with requirements of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act is presented. Intended for use by teachers, the list covers: (1) student assessment; (2) student placement; (3) individualized education programs; (4) staff development; (5) facilities; and…

Information solicited from 22 states and territories shows that: (1) America's secondary schools offer relatively little that theoreticians would consider to be true multiethnic/multicultural education; and (2) State departments of education exercise little influence in that area. Most existing multicultural education attempts to redress racial…

Offers an updated report on the preservice English teacher education program at the University of Georgia, with a focus on the two-quarter field sequence that occurs at the end of the program. (RL)

When designing competency based education programs to meet state requirements, California educators would do well to select only a small number of highly significant competencies per basic skill area, for which they can devise on-target instruction and valid competency measures. (SJL)

The author, a student participant, describes Close Up a nonprofit nonpartisan organization which hosts high school students and their teachers in Washington, D.C., for week-long educational experiences about the inner workings of the American political system. (Author/SJL)

Explains how education majors try to learn to recognize thought unit sentences (ThUS's) and to gauge their difficulty. Shows examples of simple writing and discusses the task of writing ThUS's to match style and level of author. Gives a rationale for doing a readability analysis in this way. (FL)

The philosophy and goals of an interdisciplinary, multinational Master's in International Business program are reported. The administrative and academic aspects of its language-training component are examined. The curriculum, students' internship, and coordination of subject area and language training are briefly described. (PMJ)

Details the Vienna Film School's program, including outlines of courses offered and projects required. Highlights the suggestions of three professional film directors who teach the program and a student participant. (JMF)

A four step model, developed to help college union staff help students independently determine and fulfill their leisure time needs, features identification of needs and skills, classification of these needs and skills, participation, and evaluation. (CJ)

A combination of drills, quizzes, journal writing, and creative class activities was used in a summer program designed to develop the vocabulary of gifted students. (RL)

At what levels should business data processing be taught and what should be the desired training or career education outcomes at each education level? The levels discussed here are (1) comprehensive secondary school, (2) secondary vocational skills center or technical institute, (3) community or junior college, and (4) college or university. (LRA)

The distinction between experimental evaluation (which employs generalizable analyses of discrete causes and effects) and contextual evaluation (which examines particular program operations holistically) is articulated. Program characteristics are examined and linked to experimental and contextual models of program evaluation. (Author/MH)

Describes a one-week summer law course that taught 15 gifted students (grades four through eight) about the U.S. court structure, the sources of law, juvenile law and how it differs from laws governing adults, the Fourth Amendment, the relationship between students and schools, and gifted education and the law. (CR)

Surveys of 265 elementary and secondary physical education teachers from Alabama assessed their inservice program needs with a focus on professional development needs and preferred inservice program arrangements or settings. Results indicated that physical educators wanted inservice program content to meet their unique needs but that many local…