Two regional Occupational Program Planning Institutes were held to provide inservice education for persons involved in administering postsecondary occupational education programs. This report contains an edited compilation of reactor comments and discussion group deliberations for these major papers: (1) "Master Planning in Post-Secondary…

The use of paraprofessionals in the schools has been accepted on a nationwide scale. It is no longer a question of whether they should be used in the classroom but how best to prepare them and to use their talents and potential. The author offers suggestions and guidelines for accomplishing these goals. Topics covered were (1) selection, including…

Recognizing that the teacher's job is to teach, this kit sets forth the areas in which school boards can encourage and support good teaching in the classroom. School boards can establish policies that encourage the administration to recruit widely for the best possible teacher candidates. School baords can establish policies that set forth high…

Nineteen general education administrators with no special education training or experience, the majority of them building principals, attended a special study institute. There they participated in the SEATS (Special Education Administration Task Simulation) Game, developed by Daniel Sage for use in training special education administrators. A…

Recognizing that the teacher's job is to teach, this kit sets forth the areas in which school boards can encourage and support good teaching in the classroom. School boards can establish policies that encourage the administration to recruit widely for the best possible teacher candidates. School boards can establish policies that set forth high…

Secondary school counselors (30) took part in a training program which emphasized vocational counseling techniques and philosophy which were applicable to their local communities. Information on the content and implications of federal acts for vocational training was presented. The program also included visiting community resources and counseling…

The primary objectives of the study were to develop a model for a National Academy for School Executives (NASE), to determine the receptivity of school administrators to such a program, and to determine the feasibility of implementing the model within the near future. Four academic task forces studied the structural elements, fiscal requirements,…

This project had as its objectives (1) the development of programs which would lead to the improvement of teaching science and mathematics K-8 in the state of Kansas, and (2) to test a dissemination model. One-hundred and ten principals and teachers attended seminars, lectures, and demonstrations and were involved in teaching elementary school…

This annotated bibliography presents 86 entries classified into the following sections: (1) Regional Conferences, (National Institute of Mental Health planning conferences on inservice training held in 1963), (2) Multidiscipline, Multilevel Training, (3) Professionals (administrators, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses), (4) Child…

This paper reports on an experimental study whose principal purpose was to determine the effect of social reinforcement and no social reinforcement as used with two formats of material (programed and non-programed instruction) to: (1) gain knowledge about the use of radio in Extension teaching; and (2) improve performance in radio broadcasting.…

Summarized briefly is the research conducted at the University of Texas on the concerns of teachers. Two branches of research have been pursued. The distinction lies in the type of assessment used. The first, the Teacher Concerns Statement (TCS), an open-ended free-response instrument, asks the question: "When you think about your teaching,…

This monograph provides some suggestions for school administrators -- principals, assistant principals, superintendents, and their management teams -- to enable them to understand their own attitudes and behaviors regarding their use of time, recognize the practices which most effectively use time well, incorporate sound principles of time…

This manual describes a parent involvement program on the elementary level. Although the primary aim of such a program is to broaden the learning opportunities of each child through increased personal attention and support, there are also many advantages for the teacher, the school, and the parents. The teacher has more time to devote to the…

This paper reports a study of the verbal behaviors of teachers who had participated in a program designed to enable them to exhibit behaviors which promote inquiry learning on the part of their students. Ten BSCS teachers participated in the study. Verbal behaviors occurring in inquiry situations were compared with those in noninquiry settings,…

The National Computing Centre Limited (NCC), established by the British Government to extend and improve the use of computers in the United Kingdom, is a major force in computer science education. As part of the overall national plan, training course packages consisting of lecturer's materials, visual aids and student notes have been prepared for…