Upon completion of this learning unit on children with special needs, Child Development Associate (CDA) trainees should be able to advance children's physical and intellectual competencies, build children's positive self-concepts and individual strengths, promote positive functioning of children and adults in group settings, bring about…

A long-term plan to improve the training of teachers was formulated in the fifteenth Congress of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. The concept behind this new plan emphasizes equal proportions of qualities desired of teachers, including some ideological, political, moral, and psychological components. There has been a shift in the role of…

A report is given of a comprehensive review of research on inservice education. The review process began with 6,000 abstracts and references. About 150 of the documents reported some quantitative findings. Fifty-nine studies met topic criteria and also had statistics which could be synthesized. These studies were sorted into four categories of…

This document contains a computer search of ERIC database on the topic of sex equity in guidance and counseling and a narrative which highlights documents, identifies issues and trends, and suggests implications for guidance professionals. The impact of sex stereotyping, double standards of health, the increased social awareness of sex bias and…

The second year progress report provides information on a program to provide early intervention for high risk infants and their adolescent mothers at the National Children's Center, Washington, D.C., which provided two infant stimulation classes 5 days per week for 15 handicapped children (6 to 36 months). Program accomplishments are reported in…

Since training is an integral and intrinsic component of the college union program and operation, this manual is designed for use by college union and student activities programmers. A section on the training concept and design gives a brief introduction then discusses an approach to planning a training program, seminar planning and development,…

This monograph is one in a series designed to report, in narrative form, discussions that took place during a series of mini-conferences for local K-12 career education coordinators on the subject of staff development in career education. The monograph covers two broad concerns: the substance of staff development in career education; and how staff…

This report evaluates the last year of the Comprehensive Bilingual Education Program, supported by Title VII funding and carried out at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in the Bronx, New York. The program served approximately 300 Spanish dominant students and focused on the development of Spanish and English language and reading skills, math,…

This is an evaluation of the Trilingual Education Learning Environment Program (TELE) which provided training to teacher interns in New York City. The program sought to improve the linguistic performance of limited English proficient students by training Spanish/English and Italian/English teachers in Title I designated schools, and to serve as a…

The purposes of this conference were threefold: (1) to bring together a group of experts and representatives of selected Federal agencies to review the adequacy of training for teachers, professors, and administrators in the use of educational technology; (2) to seek recommendations from these experts as to the appropriate Federal and non-Federal…

An analysis of staff development practices in Texas during the year 1975-76 is provided, and four principles of effective inservice education (planning, situational design, content, and support) are outlined. The summary of findings is based on data from three unpublished dissertations, which had compiled data gathered via questionnaire from…

Based on a state-of-the-art analysis of Army training, this report was the initial step in an effort to systematically improve the training in the combat arms and ultimately the entire Army. This study found that a comprehensive set of procedures was needed to provide for the development of effective training and for assessment of the training's…

The purpose of this manual is to provide teachers in an economically depressed rural school system with methods and techniques for implementing five mandated programs--career, character, consumer, alcohol and drug, and environmental education into the ongoing curriculum of the schools. Unit outlines are provided for each grade level from…

The Professional Development Center Network (PDC), a consortium of twenty public school districts, parochial schools, and Western Kentucky University, seeks to identify and secure resources to assist in the design and delivery of activities appropriate to the educational development of individual staff members through the online Information…

As a collection of articles this book is intended for use as a guide for planning and building teacher centers. The beginning articles tell how a combination of convictions, experience, high energy, and happenstance formed the first American teacher centers. The next several articles focus on practical matters such as staffing, needs assessment,…