ASIAN STUDIES IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS HAVE PASSED THEIR PIONEER STAGE AND REQUIRE EXPANSION AND MORE DEPTH. THERE IS NEED FOR PREPARING TEACHERS BY SUMMER INSTITUTES, BY SERVICES WHICH SHOULD BE SUPPLIED BY A SERVICE CENTER, AND BY LEAVES OF ABSENCE FOR STUDIES AT GRADUATE CENTERS AND IN ASIA. THE TEACHING OF CHINESE AND JAPANESE LANGUAGES SHOULD BE…

THE FINDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE ON MENTAL HEALTH IN THE DELAWARE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE SUMMARIZED CONCERNING THE NUMBERS AND AGES OF EMOTIONALLY AND SOCIALLY MALADJUSTED CHILDREN, LOCAL CLINICS, SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS AND OTHER REFERRAL AND TREATMENT FACILITIES, TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMS, PARENT PROBLEMS, AND WAYS IN WHICH OTHER COMMUNITIES MEET THE…

PROPOSED IS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SIX EXPERIMENTAL CENTERS IN MILWAUKEE TO WHICH IN-MIGRANT CHILDREN WOULD BE REFERRED WHEN APPLYING FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL ADMISSION. BECAUSE THE SCHOOLS FACE SO MANY PROBLEMS IN PROPERLY PLACING THESE CHILDREN, INITIAL ENTRY INTO AN ORIENTATION CENTER WHICH WOULD STUDY, TEST, AND OFFER REMEDIATION WHEN NECESSARY SEEMS…

THE 1967 NATIONAL SEMINAR IN DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION CONSIDERED TWO MAJOR PROBLEMS--(1) IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHER EDUCATION IN USING THE PROJECT METHOD IN DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION, AND (2) IMPLEMENTATION OF CURRICULUM CHANGES INVOLVING THE PROJECT METHOD OF TRAINING DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION STUDENTS. THIS REPORT ON IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHER EDUCATION…

Guidelines for programs related to the education of migrant children in Texas are outlined. Topics discussed include philosophy of migrant education, the instructional program, preschool guidelines, guidelines for the Texas Project for the Education of Migrant Children, preparations and planning for preschool teachers and aides, the enrichment…

A 9-month pilot evaluation of the developing Special Education Instructional Materials Center (SEIMC) Network utilized two approaches: a process evaluation with site visits to determine the status of activities at the SEIMC's at the universities of Wisconsin and Southern California; and a user survey of 588 mail questionnaires, follow-up…

Education is in the midst of a modernizing revolution, and standard texts and old-fashioned teachers are no longer adequate as the sole sources of information. Modern teachers must be constantly trained and retrained; educational television (ETV) not only enables them to learn with their pupils, but also provides them and the increasing numbers of…

A micro team teaching project was designed to give student teachers an increased responsibility for planning, executing, and evaluating an instructional program; to provide classroom teachers who had not previously taught in a teaching team with the opportunity to learn about the dynamics of team teaching through organizing teams of their own; to…

The 35 papers presented at the 1965 International Conference on the Teaching of English, sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English of the United States and the National Association for the Teaching of English of Great Britain, are collected in this volume. In the first section, the aims and purposes of teaching English in the United…

Written chiefly for a wide variety of specialists who have responsibility for special educational provisions for mentally retarded pupils, the book also is intended for general school and special education administration courses. Each chapter starts with a set of guiding principles, followed by expanded examples, and concludes with a summary which…

Inservice self-study was utilized to improve the qualitative level of classroom method among teachers of the gifted. Ten judges selected 45 of 75 elementary and secondary teachers by a rating scale of significant behaviors, classroom observation ratings, the Weiner Attitude Scale, and the Terman Concept Mastery Test. The 45 were considered…

This outline of approaches to the teaching of English in the primary schools of Great Britain covers the following topics: (1) classroom practices in teaching listening, speaking, reading, drama, and writing, (2) the school organization and environment (size of classes, design of school buildings, ancillary staff, continuity within the school, and…

This publication is intended to train workshop participants in writing performance objectives and developing accountability measures. A glossary of terms, information on a workshop technique, recommended sequence for developing an educational accountability program, and guidelines for writing and planning performance objectives are presented. A…

During academic year 1976-77, the State of Mississippi provided educational and/or supportive services for 4,811 migrant students ages 5-20 through 16 migrant projects. This was 938 more students than the previous year. Of these, 3,021 students received screenings for visual imparities, 538 received immunizations, and 1,242 received complete…

This handbook is designed to help staff development persons, departments, and agencies use various educational approaches to involve business, industry, and labor in the professional development of vocational educators. The content is in ten chapters, and each one includes one or all of the following: rationale, benefits, content (includes…