This report discusses the background of a program funded under Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I, initiated in 1970 to upgrade language abilities (ULA) of secondary students in American Samoa, contains a description of its many components, summarizes activities and accomplishments for fiscal year 1973 displays feedback and evaluation data…

This report discusses the analysis by the State Department of Education of the statewide evaluation reports of all Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I programs in California for the 1973-74 school year. Students at all grade levels enrolled in ESEA Title I related programs gained more than one month's growth in reading skills for each month…

Developed and coordinated by the Bureau of Reading Education of the New York State Education Department, Project Alert is a statewide inservice program to facilitate instituting or improving the diagnostic-prescriptive approach to reading instruction. As part of this program, a reading resource kit was prepared by the bureau to give structure and…

Developed and coordinated by the Bureau of Reading Education of the New York State Education Department, Project Alert is a statewide inservice program to facilitate instituting or improving the diagnostic-prescriptive approach to reading instruction. As part of this program, a reading resource kit was prepared by the bureau to give structure and…

A pair of interactive computer-student dialogs developed for use primarily with elementary and high school teachers are described. The dialogs use graphic facilities for teaching about the sky as seen from the earth and about the phases of the moon. The primary aim is for the teachers to understand the nature of a scientific model, in this case…

A major aspect of professionalism is a desire for collegial evaluation. The data presented came from responses to a questionnaire given to 244 teachers in 15 elementary schools. This study showed that elementary school teachers had little respect for evaluations of their teaching by other teachers. The teachers had a low estimation of the value of…

To increase media utilization in Wisconsin's vocational-technical education districts, a study was made to determine factors that impede or enhance the use of media and a program was set up to implement the study findings. Following a literature review and surveys of educators, an inservice workshop was developed to teach applications of…

This paper proposes a list of criteria for the stating of competencies for teachers of reading and the related language arts. Based on a recognition of the basic interrelationships among the language arts, each of the eight proposed criteria further defines adequate competency statements. Briefly stated, the author proposes that these statements…

This interdisciplinary environmental education resource guide is designed for use in the inservice preparation of teachers in environmental education. The guide is developed around nine components: (1) perceptual awareness, (2) conceptual awareness, (3) the phenomena of the natural environment, (4) the phenomena of the man-made environment, (5)…

Consisting of nine individualized inservice packets, the Teaching Teen Reading Series describes reading procedures applicable to instruction in all subjects in the elementary, middle, and secondary school. The second packet assists the teacher in analyzing the reading competencies of students in order to differentiate instruction and utilize…

The School Personnel Utilization Project developed a series of modules to assist school personnel in building the necessary skills for the development of organizational change strategies and collaborative, collegial, educational problem solving capabilities. This specific module is on the concept of shared decision-making and its application to…

In its first year, this program trained 18 experienced teachers and 36 teacher aides. The program was devised to meet the needs of teachers in areas where handicapped and educationally disadvantaged children are placed in regular classrooms. It was also intended to train adults from disadvantaged groups as teacher aides, thus making use of their…

The Oral Language Program developed by the Southwestern Cooperative Educational Laboratory is intended to disseminate and implement strategies and materials which will improve the teaching of language skills to preschool and primary children with little or no facility in English. The first version of the program, known as Mark I, did not include…

Utilizing funds from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, representatives of the Pima Agency, Education Branch, requested the assistance of the Bureau of Educational Research and Services, College of Education, Arizona State University, in the development and presentation of a program of professional in-service education to enrich…

This booklet contains program description and policy guidelines for the Mercer County Teacher Education Center (Princeton, West Virginia), a cooperative center organized and operated by Bluefield State College, Concord College, Mercer County Public Schools, and the W. Va. State Department of Education. Part 1 sketches the history of the Center…