Discusses the need for guidance for both prospective and working engineers. Stresses the need for providing an accurate assessment of the engineering job market throughout the educational process of engineering students and the need for inservice education for practicing engineers. (MLH)

This paper elaborates a program of cooperative involvement of the state mental health centers directors association, university residential instruction and university extension in strengthening family life education resources. It suggests a model for integrating interests of agency personnel, advanced students on campus and state extension staff.…

Article considered The Qualities and Competencies of the Religion Teacher, an exciting tool designed to help preservice and inservice teachers of religion look at their personal qualities and professional competencies. (Author/RK)

Skills or knowledge acquired in short-term educational experiences are often rapidly washed-out after returning to a work environment. This article describes an attempt to maintain the skills of employment counselors after they return from a workshop setting to their work environment. (Author)

The PDQ Project, Planning and Development of Quality Services in the Schools, was an effort by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association to provide public school personnel working with communication-disordered children with information and training related to better management. The report summarizes program objectives and outcomes including…

This study investigated the effects of Teachers Teaching Teachers, a staff development project employing peer coaching methods, on public school educators' attitudes and beliefs. The 6-month project involved 13 teachers, administrators, and other school personnel in the Southeast Dubois County School Corporation (Ferdinand, Indiana). All…

This paper expresses dissatisfaction with a system of preparation, certification, supervision, inservice training, and compensation that fails to produce highly qualified teachers. Teachers' training and working conditions must change so that beginning teachers are better prepared, inservice education really improves experienced teachers' skills,…

This guidebook is one in the Target Topic Series developed to highlight issues and concerns related to effective community education operation. It is intended for the community educator who is responsible for working with the community education program staff--both paid and volunteer. A pretest covers material discussed in the guidebook. The…

The cooperative efforts of the customer and service information department in IBM's Kingston, New York, laboratory and members of the academic community designed to improve technical communication and knowledge skills for all concerned are described in this report. These efforts described include (1) study groups working to design a library of…

In June, 1979, the American Camping Association implemented Project STRETCH (Strategies to Try out Resources to Enhance the Training of Camp Directors serving the Handicapped), a nationwide in-service training program for personnel providing services to handicapped children and youth in regularly and specially designed camping and outdoor…

Two authors describe how their participation in an outward bound program has helped them develop a greater degree of general self confidence, greater ease in dealing with complex and frustrating problems, and a greater appreciation of man's place in the natural environment. They also describe Outward Bound courses that have been especially…

Article focused on how industrial resources can help students gain new insight into industry and faculty members learn and grow professionally. (RK)

Universities and professional organizations, with their overlapping memberships and institutional biases and constraints, have for too long monopolized the field of administrator preparation. A more pluralistic system of professional education needs to be developed. (Author/WM)

Author described an LRC, its contribution to the school system, and its value to the school environment. (RK)

Article examined the Brookside Park Family Life Center, established by the Boston Model Cities Administration, and how it provides comprehensive health and social services to families. (RK)