Geared to the special needs of undereducated Spanish-speaking adults in greater Milwaukee, this adult basic education program incorporates English instruction at the basic, intermediate, or low-advanced level; instruction in establishing an English-speaking atmosphere for children; job-seeking skills for obtaining better paid or more suitable…

This document describes a practicum established to improve the learning environment in an urban elementary school. Violence, vandalism, and anti-social behavior on the part of students created a situation in which teachers spent more time keeping order in the classroom than in actual teaching. The practicum was set up as an inservice education…

This model state legislation is the third report issuing from the Illinois Policy Project on Accreditation, Certification, and Continuing Education, and is a statement of the state's role in the professional development of inservice teachers. The legislation itself is preceded by an essay on the state's role in supporting continuing education of…

Approximately 74% of the faculty of Arizona's public community colleges are part-time employees; many of these who teach occupational courses have been recruited from business, trades and industry, and have little background in professional educational methodology, but extensive experience in their fields. This report describes a project designed…

This paper briefly reviews criticisms directed against the Montessori method, and summarizes results of a survey of primary school teachers using the Montessori method in regular classrooms. Eight teachers, teaching daily in regular public school classrooms and enrolled in the Montessori Teacher Training Program of Buffalo on Saturdays, were asked…

The primary concern of this conference was the seeming discrepancy between role groups and functions within and across Teacher Corps projects and the importance of local team members working together toward identified goals. Speeches were presented on the following major topics: (1) collaboration and teaming; (2) preservice and inservice training…

The Continuous Professional Development Program (CPDP) is a consortium of educators from Auburn University, ten public school districts, and the Alabama State Department of Education. The purpose of the CPDP is to work cooperatively toward the improvement of teacher education at both the pre-service and in-service levels. The agencies in the…

Research studies have attributed the reading failure of children from low socioeconomic groups to factors such as hunger, poor physical health, substandard living conditions, and the language mismatch that results from the difference between spoken nonstandard dialect and printed standard English. While each of these does influence reading…

As a result of court rulings and legislation which make it illegal to discriminate among children, but also illegal not to identify children who have educational handicaps, school psychologists are seen to face a role crisis in the education of handicapped children. Recommended for those working with the severely retarded are two types of…

This volume catalogs a series of tapes which are the result of a two-week session organized to enable professors of French to renew their contact with French language and culture within a sociolinguistic context. The participants interviewed 193 natives of Tours according to the following themes: municipal government, education, women in French…

During the year, eight migrant educational programs were operational in Iowa. Six of these were conducted during the regular school year, and two were summer programs. Of the 178 children attending the regular school term, 109 were classified as speaking primarily Spanish. Of the 187 children in the summer programs, 113 were classified as having…

A third party evaluation was conducted of an experiment in service training program (Project Interact) in career education using duplex (two-way) television to reach several groups in different cities simultaneously. Two main aspects of the project were under study: the particular curriculum content on career education and the use of the Texas…

This paper is designed to be used as a practical resource manual for the development of proposals for negotiations on inservice teacher education. It is divided into two sections. The first section focuses on the analytical techniques which should be used by an association in formulating the content and design of its inservice education proposal.…

The guide provides suggestions concerning possible solutions to specific career education implementation problems. Committee selection and organization are discussed in the first section. Then a detailed approach to a sequential system for program implementation is presented. The program consists of a precommitment stage, commitment stage, and an…

Designed to assist evaluators of statewide programs for Adult Basic Education (ABE), the document presents a perspectives discrepancy assessment approach. The evaluation design and instrumentation presented were used to evaluate ABE programs in Iowa, and this effort is described, together with suggestions for adapting the Iowa design to fit other…