In this study a training program for new teaching assistants in freshman chemistry was developed and assessed. All new assistants in the Freshman Division were assigned by a stratified random technique to either the control or treatment group, with the latter receiving inservice training in the skills of teaching recitation classes. This training…

One of five sections of materials for a program to change teacher attitudes toward career education, the leader's guide presents a plan for a three-day teacher inservice workshop involving role playing by both dissonant and consonant groups. The dissonant group consists of persons with low change orientation who assume roles advocating career…

The Rural School Development Project (RSDP) was designed to improve the academic welfare of all elementary and intermediate school children in the Orleans (Vermont) Southwest School District, with three specific, measurable objectives--to improve students' reading achievement, to improve pupil self-image, and to increase the number of teacher…

In an attempt to define the need of special librarians for continuing professional education to maintain and upgrade their skills, the Special Libraries Association (SLA) undertook an examination of the relevant literature. The scarcity of literature led the SLA to identify two areas for further research: 1) what educational methods would best…

This handbook is a result of a project in Adult Vocational Education undertaken by the Illinois Office of Education's Division of Adult, Vocational, and Technical Education, and the College of Education at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. The handbook is intended to provide an introduction to adult vocational education for new teachers,…

This publication is a programmed workbook designed for use by students in a course on a systems approach to educational staff development. The workbook is one element in an educational program developed by the Georgia Department of Education that combines use of the workbooks with televised programs broadcast on the statewide educational…

The State of Florida is actively involved in competency-based teacher education (CBTE). The Career Education Center at Florida State University (FSU) is filling the needs of Florida's vocational educators for competency-based instructional materials. FSU has also participated in the advanced testing of modules developed by the Center for…

The primary purpose of this practicum was to design and implement a staff development program to assist teachers and administrators in acquiring instructional and classroom management skills. The program was designed to demonstrate and model the techniques to be learned by participants during inservice instruction, provide for supervised practice…

Phase 3 of the Career Education Resource Laboratory (CERL) project at Eastern Illinois University consisted of three major activity areas: demonstrations, disseminations, and workshops. CERL's demonstrations of Computerized Vocational Information System (CVIS) were conducted at Eastern Illinois University and the Comprehensive Illinois…

This study identifies the personal, professional, and job-related characteristics of deans of schools, colleges, and departments of education. The study was organized to identify and describe: (1) personal characteristics of current deans; (2) professional background characteristics; (3) current professional activity data regarding practicing…

The efforts of local school districts in meeting the educational requirements of children of migrant workers are summed up in the Idaho Migrant Education Evaluation Report for fiscal year 1972. Information was procured from 29 local school districts conducting educational activities, such as, experience curriculum, oral language development, and…

This publication is the third work in the UNESCO series "The Teaching of Basic Sciences," and is based on the proceedings of the international conference on "The Education of Teachers for Integrated Science." The views of all the working groups of the conference, together with edited texts of the papers presented, form the text…

This study involved an inservice education program designed to enhance teacher behavior in the use of Science - A Process Approach. The major method of gaining information on teacher behavior was direct observation and involved the development and utilization of a Classroom Observation Rating Form (CORF). Twenty-three elementary teachers comprised…

This paper reports the results of a retrospective study of the 3-year Head Start Planned Variation (HSPV) experience. The long-term residual effects of HSPV's effort to install and implement educational models in various communities are discussed with emphasis on the effects on the models and sponsors themselves. Six models were studied: Bank…

The handbook is the result of an Indian Teacher Aide Training Program conducted in 1970 at several Indian schools in Arizona. Content of the document was derived from talks, discussions, projects, and lectures included in the training program. As noted, rather than using a university-program-centered approach, a problem-centered approach was used…