Nineteen secondary school teachers in a mid-sized Florida school district participated in a single-group pretest/posttest design to explore the relationship between essential and higher order teaching skills. Correlations between two sets of teacher performance variables were computed before and after training in teaching for higher order thinking…

The 54 conference papers compiled in this proceedings include plenary addresses; reviews of Nordic databases; and discussions of documents, systems, services, and products as they relate to information resources management (IRM). Almost half of the presentations are in English: (1) "What Is Information Resources Management?" (Forest…

To examine vocational educator's perceptions on the importance of and need for training when working with vocational education students and mainstreamed special education students, a survey was mailed to a total of 1,100 vocational teachers, special needs coordinators, vocational evaluators, and state supervisory staff in Ohio. Responses to a…

An overview of 19 papers presented at the meeting indicates that countries in the Asia and Pacific region are aware of socioeconomic changes and the need for national educational systems to provide adequate responses to these changes. New personnel profiles and educational training programs are needed. Factors which will affect the development of…

A report presenting a sampling of proficiency-related projects consists of two parts. The first is a report on the state of the art describing programs, grants in progress, and plans to implement proficiency-based teaching. It was found that the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and the Educational Testing Service (ETS) have…

A description of the Teacher, Industry and Environment (TIE) educational improvement project at Central Missouri State Univesity is provided in this report. TIE is designed for Missouri high school chemistry teachers, involving 73 of them in a weekend workshop, meeting with chemists, engineers, and educators to assist them in using resources…

Representatives were surveyed from 36 parent training programs dealing with school-to-adult-life transition, to identify practices which appeared to correlate strongly with positive outcomes for parents, professionals, and children/youth with special needs. Strategies which were identified as essential to parent/professional collaborative training…

This project was designed to identify effective parent/professional collaborative training strategies related to transition. Following a review of the literature on collaborative efforts, methodology is presented for a survey of 36 programs. The survey addressed four key areas: elements related to the type and level of training, demographic…

This report is an examination of implementation efforts in reference to the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers, set up in pursuance to decisions taken at the 14th Session of the General Conference of UNESCO (Paris, Oct.-Nov. 1966) and the 167th Session of the Governing Body of the International Labour Office (ILO) (Geneva, Nov.…

Presented is the final report of the Leadership Training Institute (LTI) in Learning Disabilities at the University of Arizona. Purposes of the LTI are reported to have been to give technical assistance to the Child Service Demonstration Centers which were alloted funds by the Bureau for the Education of Handicapped Children in eight states…

This guide is the introductory volume for the first in a series of instructor-assisted training modules for rehabilitation counselors, supervisors, and graduate students. This trainer's guide for the first module focuses on basic intake interviewing skills consisting of: (1) systematic interview programming including attracting, planning and…

This guide is the case study manual for the first in a series of instructor-assisted training modules for rehabilitation counselors, supervisors, and graduate students. This typescript manual for the first module focuses on basic intake interviewing skills consisting of: (1) systematic interview programming including attracting, planning and…

This guide is the introductory volume for the second in a series of instructor-assisted training modules for rehabilitation counselors, supervisors, and graduate students. This trainer's guide for the second module focuses on the counseling skills needed for rehabilitation of the severely disabled and provides the trainer with the information and…

Particularly in the area of community resource development and public issues, Extension personnel in recent years have had to deal with an increasing amount of conflict as professional educators. Extension workers with limited training in conflict management have had to cope with situations usually involving the nature of the problems, the data…