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MITCHELL, CHARLES – 1964
TO MEET THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF CHILDREN OF LIMITED BACKGROUNDS (COMPRISING ONE-THIRD OF THE CHILDREN ENROLLED IN AMERICA'S FOURTEEN LARGEST SCHOOL SYSTEMS) THE GREAT CITIES HAVE EMBARKED ON A COOPERATIVE EFFORT TO IMPLEMENT, STUDY, AND EVALUATE AN APPROPRIATE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM. IN DETROIT THE PROJECT NOW INVOLVES 27 SCHOOLS, 1,250 SCHOOL…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Disadvantaged, Educational Needs, Educational Planning
Brinton, Donna; Gaskill, William – 1979
A one-week orientation program designed to increase the effectiveness of foreign teaching assistants (FTA) is described. As the program developed, a decision was made to include non-FTAs with the result that the English language proficiency of the participants covered a wide range and the objectives of the program were mixed. Because of the…
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Course Descriptions, Cross Cultural Training, English (Second Language)
Dresch, Stephen P. – 1980
This manual contains materials related to the Second Institute for Demographic and Economic Studies, Inc. (IDES) Survey of Experiences and Plans (Winter 1978-79), third in a series of studies of a national sample of young people. The first two surveys are also addressed: survey of high school juniors in spring 1973 by American College Testing…
Descriptors: Background, Career Choice, Career Education, Career Planning
Kilgore, Russel E.; And Others – 1980
This orientation program is designed to acquaint American Indian high school sophomores and juniors with a wide variety of academic college majors, programs, careers, and job opportunities. Emphasis is placed on agriculture, business administration, economics, energy, engineering, management, and natural resources. Included in the week's…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, College Preparation, College School Cooperation
Ohles, John F. – 1979
Education is often referred to as a business and expected to follow standard business practices. An examination of the schools shows that they resemble natural monopolies and service enterprises. Although they have administrative management, they do not have a parallel to production management. When education is viewed as a business, it becomes…
Descriptors: Administration, Business, Collective Bargaining, Community Involvement
Schuster, Donald H.; Prichard, Allyn – 1979
Research results are presented of a two-year experimental field study investigating the effectiveness of the Suggestive-Accelerative Lozanov Teaching (SALT) method applied to varying levels of socio-economic level, grade level, and subject matter. This teaching method uses components of preliminary physical and mind calming exercises, although…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Conditioning, Educational Innovation, Exercise (Physiology)
Schmitt, Terry Lyndell – 1978
A review of the literature on the spatial functioning of the blind, the results of a questionnaire of 75 sighted college students and their parents, and results of a study of 87 blind and seeing adults' performance on three spatial tasks are presented. The review suggested that adventitiously blind individuals perform better than congenitally…
Descriptors: Adventitious Impairments, Blindness, Congenital Impairments, Developmental Stages
Foster, Thomas V. – 1979
The poor self-image of many collegiate high achievers is due to the development of an obsessive-compulsive personality. Typical of this psychological maladjustment is the concept that external achievements are directly related to internal personal worth in a linear and absolute fashion. Characteristic symptoms include physical as well as emotional…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Clinics, College Students, Competition
Missouri Univ., Columbia. Instructional Materials Lab. – 1979
This distributive education performance-based instructional unit is designed to help students understand the system of physical distribution and to act as an aid to guiding students in preparing for future careers in the transportation industry dealing with the retail, wholesale, and service occupations. (Physical distribution involves the moving…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Awareness, Competency Based Education, Delivery Systems
Download full textSouth Euclid - Lyndhurst City Schools, Lyndhurst, OH. – 1968
This document has been prepared as part of a kindergarten perceptual-training program of the South Euclid-Lyndhurst City School District near Cleveland, Ohio. The guide contains information on training and procedures related to perceptual-motor learning. This information is structured primarily into 150 lesson plans, devised as 30-minute sessions…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Curriculum Guides, Eye Hand Coordination, Eye Movements
Littig, Lawrence W.
The Negro male college student's social class, achievement motivations, affiliation motivations (the desire for approval of others), and power motivations (the desire to control the behavior of others) all affect to some degree his choice of a traditionally open occupation (physician, lawyer, dentist, minister, social worker, teacher) or an…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Aspiration, Black Attitudes, Black Employment
Cohen, Arthur M. – 1978
The Center for the Study of Community Colleges has been studying humanities in community colleges nationwide. Surveys and site visits have been made to determine what factors are influencing the decline in humanities enrollments and what can be done to alter the trend. Humanities faculty surveys revealed a surprising lack of support of the…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Colleges, Declining Enrollment, Enrollment Influences
Greenberg, Gilda M. – 1978
The merits of a six-week workshop for women offered at Western Michigan University and aimed at exploring new perspectives in careers and at increasing self-confidence in mathematical skills considered appropriate for careers in science and technology are examined. Twenty students enrolled in the workshop. The content of each of the six sessions…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attitude Change, Career Opportunities, Career Planning
Bonifacio, Philip – 1975
This paper addresses two important aspects involved in orienting an ex-offender to college. The first aspect is the selection of students for admission; the second is the structuring of individual counseling and class orientation to examine important psychological and social changes that the student must make to be successful in college and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), College Admission, College Role, Correctional Rehabilitation
Borman, Christopher; And Others – 1975
Intended as workshop guidelines, the model for career education implementation contains six modules which outline the procedure for integrating career education into the instructional process, and describes a multi-media approach to guide administrators through the developmental process. Module one, Preparation for District Career Education…
Descriptors: Career Education, Educational Administration, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
