These guidelines relate to the recruitment, selection, training, and utilization of homemaker/home health aides. Some of the major tenets which the document develops are: (1) adequate leadership and financial support, (2) broad definition of the role based on an ongoing assessment of family health and social needs, (3) identification of a…

This study proposed to examine some of the essential features of Alaska's guidance and counseling programs as well as to determine the services necessary for an effective program. The study further sought to determine levels of program adequacy for each of 43 typical characteristics. Characteristics were grouped into the broad activity areas of…

This factbook presents statistical data concerning theological education for 1973-74. Tables cover: enrollment, sex, degree level, sex distribution, minority group enrollment, fulltime personnel, parttime personnel, employment of women, financial data, compensation provisions, revenue/expenditures, denominational affiliation, administrative…

This article proposes a) a rationale for the development of teachers' centers, b) a model teacher center, and c) a model for the position of facilitator for staff development at the center. The rationale focuses on the voluntary exchange of teachers' ideas concerning their professional and personal lives. The model teacher center, based on the Bay…

In designing group day care for infants, special attention has been given to efficient care practices, so that all the children's health needs can be met and so that the staff will have ample time to interact with the children. One efficient method is to assign each staff member the responsibility of a particular area rather than a particular…

The 1970 Miami Beach Training Sessions for National Leaders in Teacher Education was conducted by the Florida Department of Education on the invitation of the U. S. Office of Education to consider the techniques needed for using performance criteria to determine an individual's ability to perform as a teacher in public schools and thus qualify for…

Rehabilitation as a delivery system emphasizes a planned sequence of services which are usually purchased by the State Agency counselor from rehabilitation resources. Examples of these resources are physicians, hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, workshops, and educational programs. Most viable approaches to rural rehabilitation service…

This book is a descriptive compilation of various innovative practices adopted by the schools associated with the Educational Research Council of America. The program descriptions are presented in alphabetical order by school district and then by schools within these districts. The index provides an alphabetical listing by specific type of…

This study was one of a series conducted by the Niagara Centre, Office of Field Development of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in 1969-70 as part of a major project entitled "Wider Public Involvement in Formal Education." In February 1970 a telephone survey of 100 Niagara region elementary schools revealed that 48 used…

This third report of the Commission on Public School Personnel Policies in Ohio follows up on its first report (SP 006 262) which recommended that school districts build flexible staffing arrangements into their own school organizations. This report centers on descriptions of flexible staffing arrangements made in the Ohio schools. Flexible…

This report is the third of three documents designed to provide information concerning the student at Stony Brook. The attitudes and activities of the Stony Brook Student Affairs Professional Staff is discussed in relation to background and preparation for student affairs work, orientation and adaptation to Stony Brook, educational policy and…

Information collected from 81 camps, schools, and colleges concerning outdoor environmental facilities and program changes taking place in outdoor education is presented in this paper. Included in this information are descriptions of sites, duration of programs, suggested seasons, cost and financing, camp organization, program activities, age…

Population trends, curriculum, staffing demands, and new methods of financing education are placing the small school in an increasingly precarious position. The purpose of this paper is to submit data showing that 68% of Iowa schools face a serious dilemma. Declining rural populations could reduce by half the enrollment in at least half of Iowa's…

An oral report made to the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives Nov. 3, 1971 on the Federal programs for child care activities in the District of Columbia is given. Federal funds support 11 Federal programs for child care activities administered by three D.C. agencies and several private organizations. They contract…

This paper, based on lectures given during a tour of Czechoslovakia, outlines how the county of Hertfordshire, England has endeavoured to meet its obligations to education, industry, commerce and professional personnel in the dissemination of scientific and technical information. During the first ten years of development, the program has ensured…