The handbook contains resource material useful in planning and conducting career education workshops for various groups of educational personnel. The first part, the Workshop Planning Guide, contains overall planning considerations and a section outlining a series of specific planning tasks. The second and largest part, the Workshop Materials, is…

The in-service workshop reported in this document was part of a staff development program for teachers in 39 elementary and middle schools in Jefferson Parish. It was funded under a grant from the United States Office of Education under provisions of the Emergency School Assistance Program. Each workshop consisted of one day of large group…

Six reports from a workshop of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) members establish the framework for the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation project on creativity of the school. The reports reflect the workshop's goals to establish priorities for further study and to identify contributions and benefits of…

Problems facing rural Scottish schools range from short term consideration of daily operation to long term consideration of organizational alternatives. Addressed specifically, such problems include consideration of: (1) liaison between a secondary school and its feeder primary schools; (2) preservice teacher training for work in small, isolated…

Addressed to allied health educators who are currently developing curriculum, the document summarizes the agenda, contents, conclusions, and implications of a workshop attempt to develop career paths in the area of allied health occupations and professions. Four problems in developing performance-based curricula are attacked: too much data, too…

Total project evaluation efforts of the AIR Career Education Curriculum Development Project for grades K-9 are consolidated in the single reference volume. The master plan for evaluation is presented in part 1 in relation to the four major project products and also for project dissemination, implementation, and utilization activities. Part 2 is…

The U.S. Office of Education funded a 1973-74 institute at Indiana University (Bloomington) Library School in which 18 students participated in a master's degree program for community college librarians/learning resource center directors. The program is both described and evaluated in this report. Information is provided on program goals,…

The overall goal of this three week workshop was to improve the teaching of social studies in the integrated school. The specific objectives were: 1) to develop the framework of concepts and to become acquainted with new materials and instructional techniques; 2) to encourage perception of students as both learners and citizens, and to design…

The topic of the West Tennessee Adult Basic Education Workshop, held at Jackson, Tennessee in April, 1970, was the selection of adult basic education materials; 89 persons (teachers and supervisors) attended. This report contains an edited form of the presentation and the results of the evaluation. A profile of the adult basic education population…

During the summer of 1968 a special summer program in sociolinguistics ("Language, Society, and the Child") was held at the University of California, Berkeley. This program grew out of the research on "children's language acquisition in a variety of cultures" which has been underway at that institution for four years. Originally it was planned to…

This report presents the ideas and experiences of school personnel attending a three-session workshop (in 1967) devoted to quality integrated education. Participants came from already desegregated schools in New York City, and from the Human Relations Unit staff of the Board of Education. Included are sections discussing the school setting,…

The conference was conducted in order to propose solutions to the problems that confront the Mexican American student in higher education in areas of recruitment, retention, and financial assistance. Colleges and universities from 5 Southwestern states sent teams (student, faculty member, administrator, junior college representative, high school…

This second volume of the Image of the World of Work program reports the development of instruments, evaluation design, changes in teachers' attitudes toward work associated with participation in workshops, lesson plans, changes in pupil scores in relation to characteristics of their teachers, data analysis, and generalizations on the outcomes of…

A 3-year demonstration project at a sheltered workshop has provided prevocational training for 137 mentally retarded young adults, placed 28 of them in industry, and employs 38 in the sheltered workshop. The report includes goals and objectives of the project, project organization and operation, training procedures and techniques, contract…

The 1968 report of New York State's program for the education of migratory children presents brief program descriptions and evaluations of all phases of the statewide effort. Objectives for the 1968 program for the special education of the migrant child were (1) to improve self-concept, (2) to develop social and academic skills, (3) to develop…