The Instructional Materials Center (IMC) was developed in August, 1969, to support the Title I Pyramids Reading Program (PRP) begun a year earlier. The PRP attempted to improve the reading skills of educationally disadvantaged children by (1) using one basal reading series in all Minneapolis Target Area elementary schools, (2) providing an…

This handbook describes the history, objectives and operations of the Resource Development Internship Project (RDIP), a project designed to simultaneously strengthen the educational process and increase the number of skilled personnel working on development problems by placing upper division and graduate students--students who already have the…

Primary teachers, aides, and volunteers participated in an inservice training program based on: prerequisites of reading; teaching materials and techniques; diagnostic tests of reading skills; beginning reading; and developing comprehension. Evaluative procedures included: (1) a pre and posttest on factual content, (2) showing videotape of a…

The purpose of this study was to describe and assess the Continuing Consultant Program as operated by the Tennessee Appalachia Educational Cooperative (TAEC) during the 1969-70 school year and to develop a climate profile of these schools using the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire. Eleven schools with continuing consultants and 11…

Described is a preservice training program for staff members working with young, multiply handicapped, profoundly or severely mentally retarded children in an institutional setting. The training program, which emphasizes concrete and practical experiences, is intended to develop appropriate attitudes and technical competencies of both professional…

When it appeared that the public library system might become the agents for sponsoring official library recruitment projects, three such projects were started in New York State. The emphasis of these projects was on personal contact recruiting and summer cadet programs which permitted practical experience in library situations. The project,…

Northeast Missouri State College developed a Teaching Skills Center providing a program of early professional laboratory experiences for all elementary and secondary education majors. The program includes four components: audiovisual utilization, instructional materials preparation, microteaching, and actual school experience. Each training…

This Rate Training Manual (RTM) and Nonresident Career Course form a self-study package for those U.S. Navy personnel who are seeking advancement in the Sonar Technician Rating. Among the requirements of the rating are the abilities to obtain and interpret underwater data, operate and maintain upkeep of sonar equipment, and interpret target and…

This paper describes an in-service workshop for counselors which, although unique because of funding support, provided outcomes which are applicable to all in-service settings. The workshop featured a comprehensive attempt to provide in-service help in several areas of concern: time management, overall group work, behavioral counseling, decision…

This guide contains an introduction to and the materials for use in the Local Office Decision-Making and Implementation (LODI) Workshop, a self-managed small group workshop designed to teach planning and management techniques for identifying and resolving priority needs of an agency's program. (A "need" is defined as the difference…

An assessment was made of the need for continuing education in decision-making as perceived by elementary principals in the Fifty Large Cities School Districts. Questionnaires measuring demonstrated skill in decision-making and interest in increasing skill in decision-making provided data for analysis. Conclusions were that elementary principals…

Summarized is a project report for Project I-C-E (Instruction-Curriculum-Environment). Project I-C-E developed curriculum materials, provided inservice education, operated a resource material service, and evaluated student learning in the area of environmental education for grades 1-12. Included in this document are reports on these activities and…

Phase II activities of a project to improve occupational education programs in corrective institutions involved conducting five workshops for 106 selected participants with responsibility for the delivery of occupational education in the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Specific objectives were to provide a forum of discussion of phase I findings…

A new faculty development program at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh is dependent on a new calendar year combining a traditional semester system with elements of the four-one-four and modular calendar approaches to allow for faculty research, curriculum development, a faculty college, and university institutes. (JT)

This article discusses the training of college sociology teachers. Included are a literature review on the teaching of sociology, results of a survey on college inservice teacher education in sociology, and reviews of research on college teaching. How the theory and substantive work of sociology contributes to learning to teach sociology is…