This training guide was developed by the West Virginia Research and Training Center staff in response to the mandate of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 which emphasized that vocational rehabilitation caseloads must contain a large proportion of severely handicapped clients. It is designed to assist the rehabilitation staff in organizing and…

This publication describes the Providing Organizational Development Skills (PODS) program, a series of eight instructional systems that together are intended to provide educators with the knowledge, skills, and sensitivities to organize and manage educational systems in more relevant, humane, effective, and efficient ways. The eight component…

Described in the procedures manual are guidelines under which Bergen County (New Jersey) Region III operates in providing a comprehensive educational program to special needs students. Guidelines are outlined for the following major areas (sample subareas are in parentheses): organization (name, membership districts, and role of officers); purpose…

A new approach to school planning, involving teachers and students in the planning of their own educational environment, is beginning to emerge. (Author)

A first hand report of a UNESCO Conference on Early Childhood Education which met to explore scientific knowledge about the development of young children from birth to six years of age, ways of providing education better adapted to realities of every day life, and implications for lifelong education. (CS)

Current energy shortages have created the need for educational programs to prepare tomorrow's consumers and workers for occupations that are more responsive to the realities of the energy situation. Particularly needed is an energy program stressing productive conservation. (Productive conservation emphasizes using less energy to perform the same…

Using the results of a national survey of over 500 schools identified as having good discipline, this handbook presents guidelines for improving school discipline. An introductory chapter offers an overview of the survey project. In the second chapter, the authors list 13 characteristics identified in the survey that are common to schools with…

Intended for use in conjunction with the Illinois Office of Education's School/Public Library Cooperative Community Planning Process Training Manual, this resource supplement contains guidelines for collecting information on planning team members; a suggested agenda for a cooperative planning training seminar; a suggested seminar evaluation form;…

The results of 5 years of study and preparation, these objectives and standards for Pharmacy Library Service and the accompanying planning guide are designed to provide pharmacy college librarians with the tools necessary to plan and evaluate their library services. The objectives and standards which were developed from those published for special…

The use of advisory committees in occupational education is a natural and desirable extension of lay participation in education and an efficient and logical way of keeping programs current. At Hagerstown Junior College (HJC), the primary functions of an advisory committee are to provide advice and counsel regarding the development, maintenance,…

This curriculum guide provides a model for organizing vocational instructional content for a postsecondary electrical technology program. It is divided into six sections. Section 1 overviews the philosophies, purposes, and goals for vocational education in Georgia. Contents of section 2 include a discussion of employability skills, description of…

To assist school districts, this document presents the guidelines and evaluation methods used by the New York State Education Department (SED) to identify and validate exemplary school district practices that can be adopted by other districts. The handbook integrates the three phases of the validation process, comprising the district's preparation…

Preliminary guidelines are presented to provide a methodology for conducting user studies in the information field, particularly in developing countries. Topics covered include: user needs in planning a national information system; the identification of user groups; the design and organization of user studies, including background research survey…