This curriculum guide is designed for use in familiarizing students enrolled in business and office occupations courses with the capabilities and operation of computers. The first part of the guide includes a brief description of the course and explains who should take and who should teach computer literacy courses, how much time is necessary to…

This module is one of a series of 127 performance-based teacher education (PBTE) learning packages focusing upon specific professional competencies of vocational teachers. The competencies upon which these modules are based were identified and verified through research as being important to successful vocational teaching at both the secondary and…

This report summarizes the activities and findings of a focus group study of teachers' perceptions of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools instructional program in reading language arts and the instructional system in mathematics. Two groups were organized to provide information to the school program planners to help them in revising…

The practicum report describes inservice training to increase mainstream elementary teachers' (N=15) awareness of the ramifications of having an emotionally handicapped child in the regular classroom through increased knowledge of the Individualized Educational Plan (IEP) and its guidelines and procedures. The inservice program was developed and…

This set of performance objectives and assessment checklists is intended for use with regular office occupations classroom activities. Steps are discussed for implementing these competency-based materials, and a grading system is recommended for assessment. Each of the 20 validated skills, 8 recommended skills, and 1 optional skill are presented…

Intended to reduce unnecessary paper work on the part of the shop instructor in a masonry course, this job assignment book offers a simplified method of keeping student records up-to-date. It lists theory objectives and specific objectives for masonry courses in grades 10, 11, and 12. To help the instructor in planning and organizing in advance, a…

Module 11 in the 17-module self-instructional course on student financial aid administration (designed for novice financial aid administrators and other institutional personnel) focuses on the Stafford Loan, SLS (Supplemental Loans for Students), and Parent Loans for Undergraduate Students (PLUS) student loan programs. It is part of a course that…

Module 16 (in a 17-module self-instructional course on student financial aid administration for novice financial aid administrators and other institutional personnel) discusses forms and publications that should be developed and used by the financial aid office. The full course is an introduction to the management of federal financial aid programs…

This curriculum guide was developed as a result of a project conducted in Pennsylvania to review, update, and revise the vocational-technical manual on file in the Pennsylvania Department of Education and to develop sample curriculum for the preparation of a medical record technologist program using the skills developed in the manual. The guide is…

The higher education panel of the Commission on the Future of Education in Delaware was charged by the governor with three major reviewing tasks: (1) the status of state-level educational administration to determine how well it can meet needs at that time and in the future; (2) the method used to determine postsecondary funding levels and…

This handbook is intended to help school boards become more effective governing bodies by becoming more efficient in conducting routine business, improving their abilities to reach constructive decisions and to solve problems, making their meetings sources of good will among members, students, and the community, and developing and following…

Using data obtained from external evaluators, teacher assistants, and coordinators, the evaluation examined the supervision provided by team leaders/coordinators; inservice programs offered for Mini-Corps students by team leaders; whether teacher assistants were serving identified migrant pupils and functioning at levels of competence commensurate…

Intended for use by Missouri vocational agricultural instructors in Farm Business Management Analysis programs for young and adult farmers, this curriculum guide contains 10 lessons in analyzing records. Each lesson is a self-contained instructional package and includes materials for monthly classroom sessions and monthly on-the-farm instructional…

Written for teachers and program directors of Indian adult education programs who will use PATHWAYS curriculum for instruction of basic reading and writing skills, the handbook includes a number of considerations vital to the implementation of the curriculum. The first section focuses on understanding the Native American adult learner by…

Supporting performance objective 18 of the V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States) Secretarial Catalog, both a set of student materials and an instructor's manual on inspecting incoming documents and merchandise for completeness are included in this packet, which is one of a series. The student materials include four purchase…