The Greater Cleveland Educational Development Center is a consortium comprising the College of Education at Cleveland State University, Ohio, and 35 local school districts and educational agencies in northeastern Ohio. The principal mission of the Center is to provide quality staff development programs to teachers and administrators from its…

This manual presents strategies that are intended for use by support staff to retain nontraditional male and female students in secondary vocational education programs. They may also be applicable to postsecondary and adult vocational students. Strategies are divided into five major categories: policy, inservice (workshops and training activities…

In 1975, the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) was adopted as a vehicle for achieving excellence in the District of Columbia public schools. A total of 213 elementary and secondary school teachers and 16 instructors participated in the inservice course "Foundations of Curriculum Writing for CBC." The participants were divided into six…

At the Fayette Campus of Pennsylvania State University (which offers the first two years of baccalaureate education), volunteering faculty members are selected to serve as academic counselors during freshmen orientation on the basis of their student-orientation, motivation, realistic perspective on counseling objectives, and their willingness to…

This is one of a series of 20 booklets designed for participants in an in-service course for teachers of elementary mathematics. The course, developed by the University of Illinois Arithmetic Project, is designed to be conducted by local school personnel. In addition to these booklets, a course package includes films showing mathematics being…

This is one of a series of 20 booklets designed for participants in an in-service course for teachers of elementary mathematics. The course, developed by the University of Illinois Arithmetic Project, is designed to be conducted by local school personnel. In addition to these booklets, a course package includes films showing mathematics being…

This is one of a series of 20 booklets designed for participants in an in-service course for teachers of elementary mathematics. The course, developed by the University of Illinois Arithmetic Project, is designed to be conducted by local school personnel. In addition to these booklets, a course package includes films showing mathematics being…

This is one of a series of 20 booklets designed for participants in an in-service course for teachers of elementary mathematics. The course, developed by the University of Illinois Arithmetic Project, is designed to be conducted by local school personnel. In addition to these booklets, a course package includes films showing mathematics being…

The guide for an inservice course in identification and utilization of community resources is presented in 14 units designed to be used together as a complete course or selectively as learning modules for developing new skills or reviewing previously learned concepts. The topics covered include: career education and community resources; community…

This selective bibliography is one of nine documents compiled to provide titles and descriptions of useful and informative reading documents which were indexed into the ERIC system from 1966 to 1974. The 109 entries in this section of the bibliography concern teacher education and are arranged alphabetically by author in one of the following nine…

The purpose of this study was to develop appropriate models for pupil services in elementary schools in districts of varying size, pupil population, and wealth. The models presented are derived primarily from an indepth study of exemplary projects in 20 school districts, and are currently operational. The report includes models for the team…

The introductory guide has been designed to provide Florida teachers, counselors, and administrators with a self-instructional system of inservice training in basic concepts of career education. Materials can be used individually or in a workshop setting. The materials help to acquaint the reader with concepts, misconceptions, reasons for having…

The Computer Assisted Remedial Education (CARE) project developed two computer-assisted instructional (CAI) courses. The objective was to train educational personnel to use diagnostic teaching in working with preschool and primary grade children who exhibit learning problems. Emphasis was placed upon the use of new technology in providing…

The development and implementation of an inservice program to assist teachers in translating general provincial social studies guides, "Experiences in Decision Making," into specific units of instruction are described. The rationale for using a series of video tapes on unit planning and a matched series of print materials was to make…

An inservice teacher education project was designed to create a cadre of leaders able to initiate and support effective instructional media programs. Twenty secondary teachers from the New Orleans public and parochial school systems participated; there were 14 black teachers and six white, nine males and 11 females. Participants attended a…