An inservice training program was conducted by the New York City Board of Education in a school district in the South Bronx section of the city with an ethnic minority pupil population of 68 percent. The objectives were to improve intergroup relations, to help teachers to respond positively to problems posed by desegregation, and to gain parent…

Programs of professional preparation, the growth of professional identity, junior college practices, procedures, and policies, and an assortment of special projects are discussed. Junior colleges must assume more responsibility for the pre-service and in-service preparation of student personnel workers. Increased interest in, and by, professional…

A gap exists between new knowledge in education and change in practice; it calls for trained personnel to link the activities of school staffs and social scientists. Thus the objective of this special project is to improve methods of training change agents to improve classroom and school management practices. The 1966 programs involved 2 groups:…

Filial therapy is the process of training parents in the ideas and techniques of play therapy, so that they can continue therapy at home. Extending the same idea to the school would reach less severely disturbed children who might not otherwise receive therapy, and would expand the therapeutic community to reach many more children. Teachers, as…

This paper and a set of correlated video tapes were prepared to be used especially by school personnel interested in the Multiunit school which provides a facilitative environment for three functions: (1) modifying current practices and developing an effective system of individually guided education within each building; (2) participating in…

A 1-week workshop in reading research was held at McPherson College, Kansas, for 101 beginning teachers of reading and reading specialists to help them understand reading research literature and to encourage involvement in research. The workshop included lectures by authorities in the field, discussion periods, field trips to local summer reading…

Described is a course or workshop designed to sensitize individuals to their roles as participants in the natural and man-made environment. The course can be used as a college course for pre-professional or general training, as a pre-service or in-service course for teachers, or as a workshop for adults. The learning experiences included in this…

This module, one of a set of seven instructional materials designed for competency-based vocational education administrator education, is designed to help the learner develop skills in implementing competency-based instruction (CBI) in vocational education. Following introductory material discussing the organization of the module, the module's…

The second in a series of seven booklets provides information on professional training for personnel in physical education and recreation for handicapped persons. Reviewed is the state of the art, and considered in separate sections (each with an annotated bibliography) are places of employment, eudcational requirements and resource contacts for…

This is the first part of a report of a large-scale national study of the induction of beginning teachers in Australia. The present research program was undertaken in the belief that this growing interest would be well-served by a better understanding of the nature of a person's transition from student in a teachers' college or university to…

This training monograph was produced by the Manpower Development Higher Education System and provides manpower planners with the types of theoretical and practical information necessary to achieve planning effectiveness. The training is designed for delivery on three consecutive days. The material is most appropriate for the new planner or for the…

The purpose of this work text is to familiarize the elementary school teacher with the metric system. It can be used as a supplementary textbook in methods courses or as the basic textbook for workshops. The decimal system of numbers, metric measurement, measurement in general, and errors of measurement are discussed. Activities for measuring or…

This is a report of a training course for guidance counselors. Nine counselors and 27 students participated in the program. The counselors administered various tests such as the Kuder, Holland, and ICL tests; they had individual interviews with the students, organized discussion groups, and showed films to the students. At the end of the three-day…

The Colorado State University Resources in Graduate Education (SURGE) program is described in this report. Since it is expected that not all the participants in a graduate engineering program will be able to attend university-based lectures, presentations are video-taped and transported to industrial plants, engineering offices, and other…

Institutional research in the community college suffers from lack of fiscal support and trained personnel. The project described here was conceived to enhance the capabilities of 12 people assigned research responsibilities in California community colleges who lacked sufficient training in research design and methodology. The overall plan was to…