The main task of rehabilitation in Poland is the maximum integration of the disabled into ordinary life. Developmental trends in recent years have focused on rehabilitation services for the chronically ill. The document provides information on the organization of rehabilitation services in Poland and discusses specific problems of rehabilitation…

The document is the first of a subset of six instructional packages focusing on teacher orientation to career education. Utilizing a group approach, the module presents both historical and current perspectives on factors influencing the development of career education. Four lessons comprise the module concerning the topics of: (1) preparing…

A training project on programing activities for the trainable retarded was held for seven family care home operators and three paraprofessionals from residential institutions in California. Emphasis at the weekly sessions was placed on providing an appropriate environment and developing recreational, social, physical and academic skills in…

One of five sections of materials for a program to change teacher attitudes toward career education, the procedures manual presents the theoretical base of the program, the operational plan, and program procedures for strategies to implement a comprehensive staff development effort in assimilation of a career education program. The results of the…

Presented are inservice education guidelines for elementary school teachers of mainstreamed educable mentally handicapped and learning disabled students. The Team Learning Center (California) Inservice program is described in terms of goals and objectives, content areas (covering academic and behavior management and communication), instructional…

This study involved the participants of a four-week, National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop who were interested in piloting the life science phase of Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) materials in six school districts in Northeast Kansas. The purpose of the study was to investigate the progress of participant usage of SCIS and to…

A whole range of information is given for librarians who wish to provide library programs for their communities. Types of programs include discussion groups, film showings, poetry readings, drama presentations, music and drama programs, talks, demonstrations and instruction, workshops, videotape and multimedia productions, automated programs, and…

Presented is the final report of a project to acquire, renovate, and construct a building addition to house a sheltered workshop and provide instruction in basic life skills, social skills, simple production work skills, and life oriented academics for moderately retarded adults. Sections are provided on the following aspects of the project…

The purpose of the practicum was to improve specific supervisory skills of the administrators in the Newington (Connecticut) public schools. The practicum was also intended to increase the amount of time spent by administrators in various categories of supervisory activities. Treatment included administrative focusing efforts, a planned and…

Accountability was the keynote address at the second series of inservice clinics sponsored by the Arizona State Department of Education, Division of Career and Vocational Education. Two hundred and five persons attended the two-day clinics, with 90 attending the followup sessions. The overall objective was to have participants develop plans for…

To provide firsthand knowledge of investigators and institutions for the evaluation of grants proposals, the Grants staff or Research Corporation visits hundreds of colleges and universities each year. Their finding reveal that department chairmen have a unique influence on the conduct of research and the motivation of students, as well as the…

Contrary to the statement in the title, Part 2 of the summary of Institute proceedings is concerned with the period from August 7, 1971, to August 31, 1972. It reports the results of an opinionnaire taken the last day Institute participants were assembled at Howard, and the uses to which the participants put their Institute experience after they…

The Alaska Educational Program for Intercultural Communication (AEPIC) brought together teachers to share their practical methods of incorporating community-oriented, multicultural components into their daily teaching schedule. Designed as regional in nature to allow for a sharper focus on the area's Athabascan culture, the workshop was attended…

There are two unifying theses underlying these three papers: (1) the importance of the human relationship factor; and (2) the need to clearly understand what we wish to do and how most successfully to do it. The first paper, concerning counselor education, compares a behavioral counselor education model with a model which is related to the…

The failure of teachers to comprehend basic curriculum objectives and their unwillingness or inability to act in accordance with these objectives are severe impediments to the successful use of new materials, according to the authors. They discuss these impediments and conventional solutions as an introduction to their suggested approach: teacher…