The summer of 1983 Reading and Mathematics with Athletics program in New York City provided supplementary remediation in reading and math to 2,157 handicapped New York City students by incorporating sports activities and concepts into instruction. The program was highly effective in meeting its proposed goals and showed marked improvement over…

Compiled as a resource guide for faculty development programs, this manual presents a collection of ideas, materials, and resources designed to increase the effectiveness of adjunct staff members in postsecondary occupational education. After a statement of the manual's purpose, the next section provides a perspective on disadvantages facing…

Section 1 of this booklet presents a chart listing the 53 participating centers in the Local Cooperative Teacher Education Center (LCTEC) program, which is funded by the Texas Education Agency in conjunction with federal block grant money. The centers were developed to improve the quality of field experience programs for student teaching through…

Typically, efforts by English, speech, and developmental reading departments to make students "complete communicators" have been confined to one or two basic skills courses giving unsuccessful "one-shot" inoculations in the theory and practice of one of the communication competencies. As such communication is not taught in the context of the…

This report assesses the Do-It-Yourself Home Savings Techniques project, which was designed to develop and test an instructional unit for making homes energy efficient. The project, implemented at schools in the Cleveland City School District from October 1981 through February 1983, involved 11 science teachers and approximately 1,200 students.…

The mutual accountability model is a vehicle for equitable evaluation, with staff and instructional improvement as the goal. The model's basic assumption is that responsibility for student achievement rests not solely on the teacher but is shared by the school principal, other school personnel, and parents. The model's plan is comprised of three…

The North West Oklahoma In-Service Cooperative (NWOIC), established in 1980, encourages, promotes, and channels faculty development and needs in the rural northwestern quadrant of Oklahoma. Its objectives are: (1) to aid northwestern Oklahoma school districts in the structure and administration of local faculty development plans; (2) to develop…

A series of teacher workshops was held at 10 locations throughout Texas for the purpose of disseminating a set of self-contained modules on consumer skills for industrial arts students. At the individual workshops, each teacher was given up to 20 copies of each of the bilingual modules to enhance the possibility that they would be used in…

A study identified the competencies needed by and the inservice problems of vocational teachers involved in teaching disadvantaged students in self-contained classrooms. During the study, each of the 100 vocational education teachers instructing disadvantaged learners in state/federally funded self-contained programs for the disadvantaged in…

The two articles in this bulletin concern an experiment in progress to determine if training teachers in a structured program for mathematics instruction results in higher student achievement and if the effects of the program on teachers and students would be enhanced if the building principal participates in and supports the inservice process. In…

A study sought to determine factors and conditions which distinguish effective and less effective staff inservice training. Over 1000 teachers and administrators, who participated in 112 staff inservice projects, were the study subjects. Data was gather by pre- and post-workshop questionnaires. This report presents a summary of the findings on:…

Recent research has focused not only on trying to explain the low rate of diffusion and adoption of innovative programs, but also on the lack of use of "knowledge," more broadly defined to include ideas, information, craft skills, materials, experience, and the like. It is widely acknowledged that disproportionally more educational…

This is a guide to help teachers at all grade levels to improve the quality of their student assessments. It is designed for preservice and inservice teacher education to assist in conducting performance assessments to evaluate student learning. Performance assessment requires a student to analyze a problem, synthesize information, and attempt to…

The report analyzes manpower supply and demand in special education from a programmatic viewpoint. Data are reported from interviews with personnel preparation officials in the 50 states, Guam, Puerto Rico, The Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the District of Columbia. Background information is briefly summarized for each state in terms of economic,…

In February of 1988, four Ontario school boards in the metropolitan Toronto area, the Faculty of Education at the University of Toronto, and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education formed the Learning Consortium. The Consortium constitutes a partnership to initiate innovative programs in field-based teacher education, with an emphasis on…