A PROJECT WHICH DEVELOPED A "DESIGNED EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT" TO IMPROVE THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF DELINQUENT ADOLESCENT BOYS IS DESCRIBED. BASED ON THE BEHAVIOR THEORY OF LEARNING, THE PROJECT OFFERED 16 INSTITUTIONALIZED BOYS VOLUNTARY DAILY PROGRAMED OR SEMI-PROGRAMED ACADEMIC COURSES. CURRICULUMS WERE CREATED FOR EACH STUDENT ON…

The origins and development of one specific faculty development program are described with additional consideration given to problems encountered. The emergence of the overall faculty development issue is reviewed as well as the experiences of individual faculty members at East Texas State University. Workshops led to plans for: appointment of a…

Definitions, objectives, and concepts of in-service development programs in student personnel work are discussed. A structured, in-service development program p"ovides: (1) continuity for constantly changing staff; (2) enhances orientation and upgrading of new staff; (3) increases staff morale through shared responsibility; (4) encourages…

A basic function of the Diffusion/Adoption Network is to assist interested school districts in becoming aware of successfully demonstrated, innovative educational ideas, products, and programs; and in aquiring, through training, the competencies necessary to adopt or adapt a proven educational program. There are five basic components of the…

This module is part of a competency-based staff development training package which presents a systematic approach to guidance, counseling, and placement. This package gives an overview of several ways of assessing one's own guidance program. On completion of the readings and activities of this module, the reader will understand why a current…

The handbook consists of detailed guides for instructors of new Post Office employees. A brief introduction explains use of the materials, and an orientation handbook for new employees deals with job responsibilities and employee rights and benefits. The orientation teacher's manual consists of detailed instructional guidelines for training…

The purpose of this practicum was to develop an educational presentation in collective bargaining for the faculty, administration, and board of trustees at Pensacola Junior College. The report includes the background of collective bargaining in post secondary education, the status of collective bargaining in Florida under the recently enacted…

Educational facilities have changed to accommodate changes in the provision of educational services. Today, educational facilities utilize innovative design concepts, new materials and finished surfaces, and sophisticated furniture and equipment. The full utilization of such facilities can easily suffer from a lack of adequate knowledge about…

The Home Start Program objectives are: (1) to involve parents directly in the educational development of their children; (2) to help strengthen in parents their capacity for facilitating the general development of their own children; (3) to demonstrate methods of delivering comprehensive Head Start-type services to children and parents for whom a…

Presented are three scripts on training, orientation, and role of a model preschool staff, on building interpersonal competence in a preschool child, and on a model of staff training, orientation, and role in a university setting. The first script contains commentary for 80 slides on staff training for a model preschool mental retardation research…

Describes an annual fall retreat for junior college newspaper staffs, which involves a program of workshops and discussions about problems, goals, and staff members' roles; offers advice on planning such a retreat. (GW)

Describes conversion to a coeducational program of a residential school for delinquent girls. Discusses problems of staff attitudes, residents' reactions, destructiveness, sexual acting-out and drug use in the 70-student, private correctional center. (BF)

Analyzes major stress-producing components of professional clinical child care and describes some aspects of the widespread "burn-out" phenomenon. Discusses the role of emerging child care associations in addressing the problem through various stress-moderating techniques, colleague support and training programs. (BF)

This response to suggestions that the technical services librarian may be replaced by a combination of paraprofessional staff and automated processes discusses the catalog librarian's role in staff training, systems analysis, integrated systems design, technical services management, and original cataloging. (CLB)

The author compiles ideas developed in 12 years of advising student newspapers, and a graduate level course in newsroom management, and adds some current management theory to advise other advisers and editors. (CRH)