THE DEVELOPMENTAL CAREER GUIDANCE IN ACTION (DCGA) PROJECT SOUGHT TO/ (1) BROADEN AND RAISE THE EDUCATIONAL-OCCUPATIONAL LEVELS OF ASPIRATION OF A SELECTED GROUP OF DETROIT INNER-CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS, (2) DEVELOP A PILOT PROGRAM TO BETTER MEET THEIR NEEDS THROUGH EMPHASIS ON DEVELOPMENTAL EDUCATIONAL-OCCUPATION CAREER GUIDANCE IN GRADES ONE…

THE TWO COURSES, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN INDIAN EDUCATION AND EDUCATION OF THE INDIAN ADULT, WERE OFFERED FOR THE SECOND TIME DURING THE SUMMER OF 1963 AT ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY. THIS DOCUMENT IS A RESULT OF THE COMPILATION OF 32 PAPERS PREPARED BY THE STUDENTS FROM THESE 2 CLASSES. THESE PAPERS PERTAIN TO VARIOUS SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY…

TO COMPARE PROGRAMED SELF-INSTRUCTION WITH THE WORKSHOP METHOD THE FOLLOWING HYPOTHESES WERE TESTED--(1) PROGRAMED SELF-INSTRUCTION IS AS EFFECTIVE AS THE WORKSHOP IN INCREASING THE EXTENSION AGENTS' KNOWLEDGE OF RADIO AS AN EXTENSION TEACHING METHOD, (2) PROGRAMED SELF-INSTRUCTION IS AS EFFECTIVE AS THE WORKSHOP METHOD IN DEVELOPING MORE POSITIVE…

CHARACTERISTICS AND NEEDS OF THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED AND THE ORGANIZATION OF A 4-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL WORK-STUDY PROGRAM FOR THESE STUDENTS ARE DESCRIBED FOR TEACHERS AND WORK-STUDY SUPERVISORS. THE PROGRAM INCLUDES WORK AND RELATED STUDY THROUGH THREE STAGES OF EXPERIENCE--PREVOCATIONAL TRAINING WHICH PROVIDES VOCATIONAL INFORMATION AND EXPERIENCE…

THE ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO PROVIDE PROPER EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES FOR THE CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED. THE ACTIVITIES INITIATED SINCE OCTOBER 1961 INCLUDE THE REORGANIZATION OF THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAM AND AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES. THE REORGANIZATION IS STILL IN THE PLANNING STAGES, BUT FEATURES BEING CONSIDERED ARE--SELF-CONTAINED…

IN NOVEMBER 1959, REPRESENTATIVES OF 12 STATES IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLAINS REGION ASSEMBLED IN BOULDER, COLORADO, TO PARTICIPATED IN A 3-DAY RESEARCH SEMINAR ON TITLE VII OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE EDUCATION ACT. (TITLE VII COVERS RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITIES FOR MORE EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF TELEVISION, RADIO, MOTION PICTURES, AND RELATED…

In September 1978, the Asian Centre of Educational Innovation for Development convened a meeting to consider ways of promoting continuing education of teacher educators for innovative teacher education. This meeting prepared guidelines and country plans for the organization of National Advanced-Level Workshops involving member nations: Thailand,…

In the child mental health and child abuse fields, parent training has become a highly valued prevention and treatment service. A conceptual framework and a detailed description of three theoretically-based parent training approaches (Client-Centered, Adlerian, and Social Learning) are presented as background for this report on a two-year pilot…

The conference was attended by 53 high school seniors and 65 parents, teachers, administrators, and counselors from Albuquerque Public Schools, Los Lunas, Bernalillo, Jemez, Grants, and Albuquerque Indian School. After an opening address and two speakers, participants attended three workshops. In the first workshop, a panel of students presented…

The Maine Mastery Learning Consortium, composed of sixteen school districts, was formed because it was learned that the money and time spent in staff development without follow-up rarely resulted in significant classroom change or successful classroom implementation. This document reports on the first three months of a project designed to provide…

Designed to give career education linkers an organizing perspective from which to view their career education work, this half-day workshop contains a total of eleven activities dealing with directions to the trainer; an introduction to linking; and roles, activities, and skills of the linker. Individual activity topics are an overview of the…

This inservice training guide on nutrition activities for preschool and elementary school teachers consists of 14 lesson plans for two workshops and more than 20 related instructional handouts that can be copied for teachers. The first workshop for teachers provides a rationale for nutrition education ine elementary curriculum as well as…

BORN FREE is designed as a collaborative effort of university-based counseling psychologists and field-site educators to reduce career-related sex stereotyping in 14 educational institutions. This report describes the evaluation of BORN FREE products and includes field testing of the three training packets for elementary, secondary, and higher…

This training manual for preschool teachers explains the philosophy behind several non-sexist teaching techniques and offers concrete suggestions for implementing non-sexist educational practices and concepts in the classroom. Section One provides a rationale for non-sexist preschool education and reviews organized efforts leading to the…

This publication reports the Student Parent Educator Administrator Children (SPEAC) for Nutrition Program evaluation of the effectiveness of a child care food service personnel training curriculum and a model curriculum package for preschool children. Evaluation of the food service curriculum package was accomplished in part by a pre- and…