The National Science Foundation Summer Institute in Mathematics and Computer Science for Pre-College Teachers of Hearing Impaired Students at Gallaudet College is described in this report. The institute was designed to provide math and computer literacy instruction to such teachers in a 6-week summer program recruiting participants from around the…

In 1988, Patrick Henry Community College (PHCC), in cooperation with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, conducted a confidential survey of members of the Henry County Sheriff's Department and the Martinsville Police Department to determine training needs. Groups of between 1 and 15 employees from all shifts and departments were…

The 1985 annual report of the Council on Library Resources (CLR) describes an underlying uniformity of purpose in the activities of each of the three components of the program: research, exploration and installation of improved operating capabilities, and librarianship itself. The intent in each program is to reshape academic and research…

This report presents information on a 1980/81 U.S. non-degree training program which was designed to provide Egyptian scientific and technical information (STI) specialists with the basic minimum knowledge and skills required for developing national information services in Egypt. The background and purpose of the Egyptian STI program are discussed…

Provision of recreation programs for the ill and disabled in both institutional and community settings is the subject of this textbook directed to college/university audiences. The underlying purpose in presenting the material is twofold: to provide a theoretical rationale for the development of therapeutic recreation services for such groups as…

Presented is the 1975 - 76 annual report of the Meyer Children's Rehabilitation Institute, a diagnostic, evaluation, and treatment center for children with complex handicaps in the state of Nebraska and Western Iowa. Priority goals of the institute are noted to be providing an interdisciplinary education and training program for personnel needed…

Provided are the appendixes to the final report of the Leadership Training Institute (LTI) in Learning Disabilities at the University of Arizona. Sections cover the following areas: (1) reports of LTI meetings and conferences; (2) contracted papers on research in the field of learning disabilities (such as "Neurological Factors in Learning…

Project CLASS (Coordinated Learning Activities for School Staff) provides a vehicle for local school systems, colleges, and universities to join together in the identification of teacher training and inservice needs and the development and execution of graduate studies and/or staff development programs designed to meet those needs. This document…

This document is written for public school administrators who are interested in establishing in their schools a competency-based, inservice teacher education program. Project CLASS (Coordinated Learning Activities for School Staff) has initiated a series of guidebooks to assist schools in setting up such a program. In this project, an alliance…

As a result of the recent growth in the telecommunications industry, most notably the rapid development of cable television, attention is being drawn to the need for qualified personnel in the field. This report analyzes the need in New Jersey for personnel both in the telecommunications industry generally and in cable specifically. As background…

A needs assessment was conducted to determine the training and professional development needs of vocational education teachers in South Carolina. The study was designed to identify the skills/skill areas that are used on a day-to-day basis by vocational teachers; those for which they received training either prior to certification or in the course…

This essay advocates eradication of the line that divides preservice and inservice teacher education. However, when teacher education programs are considered in this unified way, several problems arise. It is these problems that form the basis of discussion here. One problem is the obscurity that exists between noninstructional and instructional…

There are many contributing factors to the mental health problems of minority groups. For example, the intergroup and intragroup diversity that exists between and among minority groups has not been recognized and controlled for by social and behavioral scientists. There are also certain social-psychological factors which predispose these groups to…

This report describes selected characteristics of child care administrators practicing in Texas and attempts to ascertain if these child care administrators have specific training preferences and/or needs. The administrator characteristics addressed were categorized as follows: (1) general demographic information, (2) types of child care…

This booklet describes some things learned by education directors from fifteen museums and performing arts organizations in Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts, as they participated in a training project to help them design pilot career education programs, in conjunction with a partner school, for K-12 students, using the resources of their…