There is a considerable unmet need for the coordination of supportive services for vocational education students. Program effectiveness can be enhanced by means of interagency coordination. In order to unite the Federal, State, and local services resulting from Federal vocational legislation, local coordinators, administrators, and other leaders…

Intended for use by Texas school administrators in developing and operating programs to better meet the vocational education needs of their handicapped students, this guide first examines the need for a clearly developed program design with specific objectives as the foundation on which program evaluation is based. Following this examination is a…

The purpose of this project was to design and test a model by which two agencies might work together as a means of each agency more effectively serving rural families in disadvantaged situations. This publication presents an evaluation not of client behavior in detail as such, but of the model as an educational process with particular attention to…

This revised handbook describes Oklahoma's cooperative programs for the secondary grades in vocational education, including the following topics: (1) purposes of vocational education, (2) the six types of cooperative programs in Oklahoma, (3) the role of teacher-coordinator, (4) the advisory committee's role, (5) regulations, (6) training…

This report was undertaken in response to a request by the Sixth Legislature, which expressed its concern with the lack of coordination and overall human resource planning in the visitor industry and that the findings of the January 6-7, 1970 Travel Industry Congress had not been fully implemented. The State Commission on Manpower and Full…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a report partly based on a round-table discussion between an expert from the United Kingdom and the Chief Inspectors of all the states of the Federation, and partly based on consultations with state ministries of education. It was virtually impossible for any of the…

A narrative and documented review of the initial stages of organizing a consortium for inservice teacher education is presented. Functioning as a Teacher Corps project, a model is being developed for collaborative decision-making among teacher associations, local school districts, and institutions of higher education. Under consideration is a…

U. S. director of career education, Kenneth B. Hoyt, is interviewed on the subject of the relationship of business and industry to career education in the schools. He urges the business-industry community to collaborate with career education implementation in the schools. As part of this collaborative effort, businesses are asked to (1) provide a…

The State University of New York comprises four formal coordinating areas for the development of regional contacts and interinstitutional and regional cooperation. The four coordinating areas have been operating since 1972 and the differing patterns of cooperation that have emerged are outlined as are the formal activities of each area. Only one…

This description of major activities and accomplishments of the Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of the States (V-TECS) since the second progress report of May, 1975, is designed to provide the reader with a basic understanding of the processes and procedures used by the consortium in achieving its major goal: The production of catalogs…

This paper outlines the procedures used at the University of Cincinnati for establishing a field based elementary teacher education program in the form of a field guide. The first step involves a meeting with university faculty to discuss the implications of such a program. Step two involves meeting with the elementary school principal and selling…

The Berry Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration was devised as a measure of the degree to which visual perception and motor behavior are integrated in young children, measured by the copying of geometric forms. In this study, 64 three-year-old children were tested individually to investigate (1) whether there is a correlation between…

A program for low-achieving students at a Connecticut community college involves one course combining the fundamentals of reading and writing, which is taught in conjunction with a college-level, introductory psychology course. This program is based on four assumptions: that adult learners can gain critical consciousness within a literacy program,…

The challenge to colleges of pharmacy is to assume responsibility for designing and implementing a sound system of continuing education for pharmacists to replace the fragmented programs that exist now. This involves commitments to provide sufficient status, financial support, and academic credits. (JMD)

Describes Iowa's activities and coordination among the state department of education, universities, community colleges, and local school districts in the area of inservice teacher education related to special needs students: A needs survey of vocational educators and a summer workshop for interdisciplinary teams, including recommendations for…