A 5-year experimental project, the Bilingual Mini Head Start program is an early education program for children of migrant farm workers. The program has 2 components: the mobile and the stationary components. In the stationary program, 2 year-round centers are operated in Connell and Moses Lake (Washington). These centers' purpose is to…

A 5-year experimental program, the Bilingual Mini Head Start program is an early education program for children of migrant farm workers. Consisting of a mobile and a stationary component, the program includes: (1) an interstate mobile delivery system, (2) an individualized curriculum which can be taught by migrant adults, and (3) intensive…

An early education program for children of migrant and seasonal farm workers, the program is designed around three problems which uniquely affect these children's education--lack of continuity, lack of professional staff, and irregularity of attendance. Serving primarily Mexican American migrant children, the program consists of two year-round…

A driver education task analysis was completed and instructional material was developed under a different contract but in conjunction with this and a companion project. Different editions of a teacher's guide were written for secondary schools and driving schools. The former was disseminated through workshops for college and university…

Third year project activities, aimed at disadvantaged Samoans living in Hawaii, 20 Years of age or older, unemployed or underemployed, and unable to effectively compete for or maintain jobs, are summarized in the document. Third year's aims included: (1) providing basic education to 75 adult Samoans through vocational interest areas, (2) using…

Eight reading specialists and seven classroom teachers in Washington, D.C., taught the STARTER/101 reading program to 98 elementary school children in 1969-70. The children were chosen because they had experienced considerable difficulty in learning to read. The program, designed as a beginning reading program for urban children, consists of…

Teachers, supervisors, and teacher educators who participated in the 1968 NDEA Title XI Institute developed experiments and instructional units to be used by industrial arts and technical education teachers. The program involved a study and development of industrial materials, field testing, and the preparation of transparencies and slides. The…

This second volume contains the remainder of the experiments and instructional material developed at the NDEA Institute. Included are seven units on polymers, three units on electronics, three units on graphic arts, 10 units on fuels and lubricants, and one unit on textiles. A list of reviewed films and source availability is appended. Volume I is…

The 1968-69 Experienced Teacher Fellowship Program (ExTFP) in industrial arts was designed to orient and upgrade 24 urban teachers for a broad-base industrial arts program as described in the Galaxy Approach for Occupational Education. The program was organized to: (1) provide in-depth courses in technical areas, (2) provide short-term intensive…

The construction of a conceptual framework of industry in the United States and the development o f a completely new secondary curriculum, called American Industry, are reported. Major emphasis is placed on the need of the secondary school to aid all people in developing an understanding of American Industry, the procedure used in identifying…

Proposals are set forth for New York State financial aid to adult basic, secondary, Americanization, and occupational education; funding of community service and continuing higher education; development of instructional materials, leadership, and staff; and a study of continuing education in colleges, universities, and other community and cultural…

This concise report, one of a series, focuses attention on the topic of correlation of work in the foreign language class with drill in the language laboratory. Viewing the attitude of the language teacher as the critical factor in this problem, the author presents fundamental material on: (1) selection of appropriate materials, (2) the use of…

This collection of essays scrutinizes needs in urban educational reform, and systematically analyzes curriculum, the urban school child, the language patterns of disadvantaged black children, teacher training, compensatory education, community control, and educational separatism. It is contended that the urban school should be redesigned to…

The projects were funded to create curriculum and instructional materials for those allied health functions that can appropriately be taught in programs through the associate degree level, and to develop inservice and preservice programs for those health-related occupations in which on-the-job training plays a primary role. The staff, with the…

The faculty of the Division of Instructional Systems and Learning Resources at the University of Utah is developing a model for a competency-based curriculum in instructional media and technology. The group first defined the roles of the instructional technologist at different educational levels and then delineated appropriate functional…