This curriculum guide was designed for use in postsecondary welding education programs in Georgia. Its purpose is to provide for the development of entry level skills in welding in the areas of knowledge, theoretical structure, tool usage, diagnostic ability, related supportive skills, and occupational survival skills. The first two sections of 10…

Compiled for use by Missouri vocational educators in the classroom or workplace, this instructional unit is the first of four designed to aid students and adults in assessing their own attitudes and plans and obtaining an awareness of sex equity and bias. Its objective is for the participant to be able to recognize damaging effects of sex bias and…

Designed to help teachers provide students with various word processing skills, this teacher's guide contains nine units of instruction. The units address various skills that are prerequisite for entry-level word processing positions, including concepts and theories of word processing, language usage, mathematics, machine transcription and…

This instructor's guide accompanies the student booklet/unit on job searches in the Employability Skills Series. (The booklet is available separately as CE 031 157.) It first discusses the Employability Skills Series. A section on administering the unit details purpose of the unit and major concepts to be developed, lists student performance and…

This instructor's guide accompanies the student booklet/unit on personal finances in the Employability Skills Series. (The student booklet is available separately as CE 031 163.) It first discusses the Employability Skills Series. A section on administering the unit details purpose of the unit and major concepts to be developed, lists student…

This instructor's guide accompanies the student booklet/unit on job changes in the Employability Skills Series. (The student booklet is available separately as CE 031 165.) It first discusses the Employability Skills Series. A section on administering the unit details purpose of the unit and major concepts to be developed, lists student…

Pima Community College produced self-paced individualized mediated drafting instruction to meet the needs of students with different skills, abilities, motivation, and experience. Areas of instructional information for skills of an introductory nature were divided into 13 units of instruction. These units were divided into areas of…

Prepared to introduce adult education program planners to the basic concepts integral to and alternative strategies for conducting needs assessments, this instructional handbook consists of a series of six chapters or instructional booklets (also available separately--see note.) Topics covered in each chapter are as follows: introduction to needs…

To manage classrooms successfully, teachers must monitor carefully the relationships between their own actions and those actions' intended and unintended results, since erroneous perceptions of these relationships can cause problems. Teachers can act inappropriately when their goals are mistaken, as for instance when they develop false…

This guide is designed to help trainees plan, conduct, and evaluate workshops to assist others in providing cultural orientation (CO) programs for refugees. CO is seen as a continuous learning process, involving a two-way exchange of information and skills. Awareness is developed of: (1) differences and similarities in behavior, attitudes, and…

Based on data gathered from 26 Washington community colleges for fall 1979 through fall 1981, this four-part report presents a series of tables providing information on enrollments, students, faculty, and courses in 13 humanities program areas; i.e., anthropology, art history, English as a second language, ethnic studies, foreign languages,…

Three reports on further education and a new training initiative in Great Britain are presented, based on a 1982 meeting of the Association of Vice Principals of Colleges, England. In "The New Training Initiative," Graham Kendall considers the philosophy and the development of vocational preparation. Three aspects of the new training…

Issues related to the institutionalization of continuing professional education (CPE) within the university are considered. The components of marginality, the possible obstacles and incentives to institutionalization, and some of the support necessities are addressed, along with insights gained by a Pennsylvania State University effort to link the…

To assist North Carolina Outward Bound School instructors in their responsibilities of ensuring that each student is able to achieve safely the objectives of developing self-confidence, concern for others, and self-awareness when confronted by 21 to 28 days of challenging, shared experience involving service and adventure, this revised fourth…

The nature of program changes taking place in undergraduate general education and factors that affect curricular change were addressed in a survey. A sample of 272 colleges and universities that were conducting serious review or revision of their undergraduate general education programs were sent questionnaires, and 139 responses were received.…