This manual offers a model and guidelines for developing and delivering a workshop training program for family day care providers to increase their ability to serve young children with disabilities. Model components include recruiting caregivers and children; training caregivers; services to children and parents; ancillary services; and costs.…

This training manual provides information for the instructors (tutors) of the Shippensburg University Learning Assistance Center (LAC). It discusses the need for tutoring, what the tutoring program is about, and who should be encouraged to attend tutoring sessions. Also, through chapters written by educators with experience in the tutoring…

This document contains a letter report and supporting materials prepared in response to a request for an investigation of the desirability of creating a forum for the discussion of the broad problems that confront the manufacturing sector. The letter report, submitted by Frank Press, president of the National Academy of Sciences, and Robert White,…

Outcomes and applications of Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL) study groups composed of teachers and administrators to investigate a single educational issue and develop a product of use to practitioners are described in this report. Contents include an introduction of the study group as a professional development tool, a discussion of the…

This guide to developing "Activity Days" for gifted children is a product of a New Jersey consortium of eight school districts in Burlington County, New Jersey. Briefly considered are the consortium's philosophy and program rationale. Goals and objectives of the gifted program are specified. The origins of the Activity Day program…

The guide offers 13 modules on integration and reentry of foreign students returning to their home countries, designed to span the period from first arrival at the U.S. university to the final return. Stressed is the need for students to adapt to unexpected problems on their return due to both changes in their home situation and changes in…

A discussion of FLES (foreign language in the elementary school, including introductory, exploratory, or immersion) looks at the challenges that need to be identified and met for successful planning and implementation. The role and importance of FLES in the 1990s is briefly reviewed, FLES program types are outlined, and FLES is examined in greater…

Mentally retarded persons in sheltered workshops in West Virginia were studied in order to determine their learning styles and how these learning styles related to the populations studied by Witkin and others. (Witkin classified learning styles as either field independent--i.e. task oriented--or field-dependent--i.e., oriented to the social…

A cooperative project between community colleges in the Northeast and the Universities Field Staff International (UFSI) which sought to add an international dimension to existing community college curricula is described. Two objectives of the project are listed: to broaden faculty and administrative interest and skills in international studies;…

Launched by Unesco in cooperation with the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) in 1975, the International Environmental Education Programme (IEEP) will enter its fourth phase during 1984-85. Anticipated IEEP activities are described in this newsletter. They include exchange of information and experimental data, promotion of research and…

This manual is designed to introduce adults to microcomputers. It is planned for use with a series of five two-hour labs on Apple II or IIe computers, with participants expected to review sections and practice on a microcomputer between sessions. The goals are to have participants (1) understand how programing languages work, (2) understand the…

The community networking model presented in this report was prepared to aid community members in strenthening and developing the networking process among business, community service agencies, government, churches, arts, recreation, and education. The model is designed to be used in a workshop in which participants are grouped in teams of…

The problem-solving approach in environmental education (EE), reports on EE programs and activities in selected foreign countries, and a report on the Asian Subregional Workshop on Teacher Training in EE are provided in this newsletter. The nature of the problem-solving approach and brief discussions of such methodologies as group discussion,…

Information on the development and implementation of a parent education project in the Campbell Union School District (California) is presented. The project, consisting of a series of parent workshops at school sites, is described as an opportunity for parents to share their 6th, 7th, or 8th grade child's learning experience in a family life…

A vocational teacher education project sponsored jointly by Mississippi State University, the Mississippi Department of Vocational and Technical Education, and the Appalachian Regional Commission afforded an opportunity to develop a working model for the implementation of field-based activities as a measure of professional development for…