This guide is designed to assist local school district personnel in planning, developing, and implementing sex equity programs to expand students' career and vocational options, especailly in nontraditional areas. The activities and materials in this participant manual are coordinated with a two-day inservice training session for teams of…

A Minicourse on Flanders' Interaction Analysis was adapted and re-developed for use in West German teacher training institutions, and evaluated in several studies with pre- and inservice teachers. The Minicourse incorporates the microteaching components of discrimination training, laboratory teaching experience, and feedback. The results of four…

This literature review, part of the Project BORN FREE training series for teachers, counselors, administrators and parents, focuses on career socialization at the elementary level. Basic areas addressed include: (1) problem identification; (2) theoretical and psychological frameworks; (3) problem causation and the socialization process; and (4)…

This guide is part of the Project BORN FREE training series for teachers, counselors, administrators, and parents, designed to increase their awareness of children's career development. The materials contain a set of independent learning strategies which combine to provide an intervention model for use at the elementary school level. Facilitator…

This guide is part of the Project BORN FREE training series for teachers, counselors, administrators, and parents, designed to increase their awareness of adult career development. The materials contain a set of independent learning strategies which combine to provide an intervention model for use at the postsecondary level. Facilitation…

Several approaches have been used to teach basic counseling skills to beginning trainees. A cognitive self-instructional modeling approach was employed with a student pre-practicum class. The treatment group (N=9) received 6 hours of training by observing counselor models, formulating their helping responses aloud, practicing the asking of focused…

A two-phased training study attempted (1) to accelerate the rate at which a total of 8 severely and profoundly retarded children (mean age 57 months) developed the Piagetian concept of object permanence and (2) to demonstrate generalization of the higher performance on object permanence scale to other scales of sensorimotor intelligence and to the…

This paper presents the background and development of the Crisis Intervention Simulation Survey, (CISS), a written simulation instrument designed to assess police officers' knowledge of effective crisis intervention skills and the awareness of their emotional responses to selected crisis intervention situations. It summarizes the recent history of…

An inservice teacher education course is described in which the objective is to train adults in the use of specific tutoring techniques and procedures for helping a child master any objective that involves stimulus-response learning. Inservice topics covered in the course include selection of appropriate instructional outcomes, pretesting and…

This booklet was designed to help supervisors with employee training problems. The problems may relate to upgrading job knowledge and skills or other training areas. The supervisor can share the training workload with fellow supervisors, the larger organization, and the personnel officer. Knowledge of an enthusiasm for the training subject will…

Two methods for enhancing the job interviewing skills of rehabilitation clients were studied: the MDC Quest Series (a slide-tape program produced by the Materials Development Center at the University of Wisconsin-Stout) and group role playing. Forty clients were assigned in a 2 x 2 (presence or absence of role play by presence or absence of Quest)…

This report documents a conference on the conceptual framework underlying the management of Teacher Corps Projects. The conference, designed to provide participants with training in specific skills pertinent to their responsibilities, was attended by school administrators, program development specialists, community coordinators, community council…

This booklet is designed to assist parents help their children "get along" with others, and is based on the premise that the ability to relate well to others is essential to good mental health and success in the home, in the classroom, and on the job. The materials focus on the following topics: (1) the use of role play, questioning and responding…

This comprehensive training program, Together We Can, involves a cooperative effort to reduce sex-role stereotyping and to expand options in education, work, and life styles for females and males. This facilitator manual is designed to encourage community groups, school volunteers, and parents to initiate a process of community organization and…

DESIGNED AS A SOURCE OF REFERENCE FOR TEACHING, THIS BOOK PRESENTS TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES USED IN THE CHILD AMPUTEE PROSTHETICS PROJECT (SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES). THE FIRST CHAPTER DISCUSSES THE ROLE OF THE MEDICAL DIRECTOR OVERSEEING INITIAL INTERVIEWS WITH CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS, MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS,…