The information presented in this guide focuses on the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes needed for effective personnel management in day care settings. Information included in this publication came from the suggestions of day care directors who participated in Training for Child Care Project workshops on administration, as well as from…

The emerging educational tasks of developing in pupils interpersonal attitudes and behaviors are not being accomplished by such technological devices as computer instruction and educational television and such school organizational patterns as team teaching and nongraded plans because they mainly offer ways for promoting current learning task…

The frequently recurring provisions, to be found in the policy statements of a selected group of 20 colleges and universities, concerning the production, use, and re-use of instructional recordings (visual and oral) can be divided for the purposes of analysis and comparison into four groups: ownership and copyright provisions, faculty rights,…

This document discusses various aspects of the training and utilization of "teacher aides" (used here to refer to the paraprofessional, lay assistant, nonprofessional, teacher helper, assistant teacher, or auxiliary personnel whose work may include "all those functions the non-certificated person might perform in the educational…

A Personnel Utilization System has been designed at Broward Community College, which combines payroll, personnel, course, and function information in order to determine the actual duties performed by personnel for the amount of remuneration received. Objectives of the system are (1) to define the tasks being performed by faculty, staff, and…

An Individualized Instructional Systems Program is a proqram that enables students to: (1) have available in writing the behavioral objectives they try to attain; (2) progress at their own individual rate while completing the required tasks, activities, and objectives of the course; (3) spend as much time as needed to complete the objectives of…

This report evaluates a three-year-demonstration program in child advocacy, created as part of existing Head Start Parent-Child Centers to meet the needs of children under 5 and their families. Local services were integrated and new services created in a variety of areas (health, housing, education and welfare) using a primarily paraprofessional…

These conference proceedings are divided into two parts: (1) teacher training institutions and the need for multicultural education, and (2) models that have been developed to facilitate staff training and development. Papers presented in the first section are said to indicate that preservice education in the area of multicultural education at…

Volume 1 presents the findings of an evaluation of Iowa's "merged area" organizational system for adult basic education (ABE), a system which operates from 15 regional community colleges or vocational-technical schools serving as area schools. The perspective discrepancy assessment methodology of the evaluation team was the outgrowth of…

Volume 2 contains copies of the instruments used in the assessment of Iowa's adult basic education (ABE) program and aggregate statewide responses. Included are questionnaires and findings completed by the evaluation committee, coordinators, directors, teachers (both intent and current practice forms), students, learning center coordinators,…

This final report of the 1974-75 Florida Right to Read Effort staff development program provides an evaluation by participating administrators, reading contacts, and teachers. The first two sections of this report give background information about the National Right to Read Effort as well as the Florida Right to Read program. The third section…

The publication is a final report on a vocational rehabilitation services project which attempted to reveal the values to be achieved by close association of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Department of Welfare in the areas of demonstration, service, and staff training in order to better serve clients of the Department of…

In order to be effective, management concepts must be taught to all members of the management team. Team members must learn that they are truly interdependent and must develop a strong interrelationship based on mutual respect for each other's expertise and point of view. Team management is beginning to develop when each member displays complete…

The rapid growth of university libraries in recent years required changes in the ways of dealing with staff including the re-evaluation of personnel procedures and policies. Changes were brought on by laws regulating fair employment practices, equal opportunity of employment, and affirmative action and by the rising demand of staff to be consulted…

The Advisory Council reviews the administration of programs funded under Title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 in an effort to strengthen State departments of education, and makes recommendations for further development of State education agencies. Successes of numerous programs are noted and special recommendations are…