This report on the pilot training phase of the Community-Based Criminal Justice Staff Development Project represents an attempt to describe and document project efforts during the months between October, 1975 and June, 1976 with a view toward providing a detailed guide for future implementation of staff development activities for community-based…

This manual is designed to assist those helping professionals responsible for developing consumer education programs for older adults on the topic of health care and health care costs. Using a modular presentation format, the materials focus on the following areas of concern: (1) self-evaluation and planning for health care needs; (2) methods for…

This booklet is one of eight developed both as resource guides to assist Wisconsin public schools in offering quality reading instruction and as models for improvement where there is a need for change. This seventh booklet offers guidelines and suggestions for implementing inservice education sessions in literacy education, including a survey of…

Produced by the participants at a summer curriculum development workshop, this booklet has a threefold purpose: to help educators in analyzing both the process and product of student writing to find ways of improving that writing, to provide activities for generating more and better student writing and for encouraging students to revise and edit…

This handbook helps school administrators and their colleagues plan and conduct educational workshops in their communities with or without help from universities or colleges. It can be used as a tool for staff development programs, and provides names and places that have used their communities as learning resources in the past two decades. The…

The inservice teacher workshop trainer's manual includes an abstract of the minicourse, and lists activities, handouts, and assignments for sessions on improving classroom behavior and self concept. The document is divided into four sections, each focusing on a workshop session. Workshop sessions cover the use of contracts, reward programs, and…

This report describes the national workshop program and participating states' follow-up activities which were a part of an administrators' national training program to improve vocational programs' cost effectiveness. It consists of an introduction and three additional chapters. Chapter 2 presents a summary of developmental strategies, nominal…

A BULLETIN WHICH EMPHASIZES THE NEED FOR EFFECTIVE INSERVICE EDUCATION IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS BEGINS WITH AN INTRODUCTORY SECTION WHICH (1) DESCRIBES TYPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERNS AND MATHEMATICS PROGRAMS, (2) LISTS FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCE TEACHERS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS MATHEMATICS TEACHING, AND (3) CITES IMPLICATIONS OF…

REPORTED ARE THE PRELIMINARY ACTIVITIES FOR THE PREPARATION OF AN INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE SUPERVISORS. THE PROJECT, PLANNED TO CULMINATE IN A TEN-DAY WORKSHOP-SEMINAR FOR SCIENCE SUPERVISORS, WAS DIVIDED INTO THREE DEVELOPMENTAL PHASES--(1) IDENTIFICATION OF THE NEEDS OF SCIENCE SUPERVISORS AND DEVELOPMENT OF BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVES FOR THE WORKING…

Some of the more visible efforts, activities, and results which have taken place among the small schools of Nevada during the initial phase (1962-65) of the Western States Small Schools Project are described. These activities, dealing with the problems and concerns of small schools, include workshops, supervised correspondence and programed…

Part of a 13-volume series designed to be used as a group inservice or a self-learning system to train school administrators and counselors for their role in career education, this module (Module 7) consists of a series of readings and activities to aid the counselor in assessing the career education needs of youth. (It is one of six modules for…

Designed for use in career education workshops and other staff development activities of persons in schools and the community who are responsible for promoting, planning, implementing, and evaluating career education in a school or district, formulating school policies and procedures, and designing or revising curriculum, this guide was prepared…

This Coordinator's Guide accompanies the module Helping Students Develop Career Decision-Making Skills. It defines the coordinator's role from four aspects: setting the tone, setting the pace, facilitating the discussion, and evaluating. Suggestions for preparing and presenting the workshop are offered. The actual text is in the accompanying…

This is the first of four modules on developing a comprehensive program of job placement services in a school setting. The prupose of these modules is to help the placement coordinator plan, implement, and evaluate a program of job placement services to meet student needs. The content areas of the four modules are (1) pre-employment, (2) job…

This is the second of four modules on developing a comprehensive program of job placement services in a school setting. The purpose of these modules is to help the placement coordinator plan, implement, and evaluate a program of job placement services to meet student needs. The content areas of the four modules are (1) pre-employment, (2) job…