Two plans were developed to provide in-service training to teacher aides in a large urban school district: one, an intensive program involving 30 hours of training divided into five all-day sessions or 12 shorter sessions; the other, a year-long program providing a series of 17 two-week modules from which teacher aides could choose. This paper…

Questionnaires were sent to 373 administrators in West Texas school districts with less than 500 students. The purpose of the study was to survey small school administrators' interest in leadership training through inservice education; to explore the areas of such interest; and to determine the preferences for type, location, and duration of such…

During fiscal year 1977, training workshops on the new ESEA Title I evaluation and reporting system were conducted for State level program administrators and evaluators. In this report, the workshop activities are documented. The purposes and development of the evaluation system and the technical assistance efforts are summarized, as an…

Tabulated results of a 1976 National Federation for the Improvement of Rural Education (NFIRE) survey soliciting 140 opinions (a 43% return on 322 survey forms) re: rural education priorities are presented in this paper. These results include the total number of persons responding to each item and the resultant ranking of all items in the survey.…

The purpose of this module is to help the professional school counselor acquire and demonstrate a number of specific competencies in the area of information processing. Included are 33 indicators, or statements describing skills, in the general areas of referral, pupil appraisal, and resource management. This document is one of seven staff…

This module for school counselors presents a series of learning activities related to the skills required to implement a systematic planning model. The three global skills in this model are: assessing client needs, program design, and program evaluation. This model is designed to result in a guidance program based on the individual counselor's…

Presented is a case study of efforts of two consultants to encourage deinstitutionalization and compliance with Title 19 and Title 20 regulations at a church supported facility for 258 mentally retarded residents. Noted is conflict between deinstitutionalization requirements and the administration philosophy of providing kindly custodial care…

Specific objectives of a project to translate V-TECS (Vocational-Technical Consortium of States) catalogs of performance objectives into viable programs of instruction ready for implementation in the secondary and postsecondary training institutions of the State of Kentucky were the following: (1) To teach selected personnel to develop…

Although serving on a school board is frequently a thankless and difficult task, good board members must be recruited, since the elected school board is a cornerstone of our representative form of government and is a central element of local control. A recent increase in board member turnover is assignable to the large amount of time it takes to…

Presented is the 1976-77 project report containing descriptions and evaluations of the five accomplished goals of the Preschool Instruction for the Exceptional (PIE) program which has provided services for 54 New Jersey students (3 to 5-years old). Described and discussed are the following objectives: (1) identification and diagnosis of preschool…

The document presents the final report of the Model Vision Project (MVP) Outreach Phase, funded to demonstrate appropriate educational, diagnostic, training, and other services to severely multihandicapped, visually impaired children. Roles of various staff are reviewed, and individuals serving as consultants are listed. Summarized are the goals…

A questionnaire survey of 119 U.S. and Canadian institutions with approved or recommended programs in educational administration examined which possible program elements are being utilized and which are not, how programs seek preservice and inservice clients, and how women and minority groups are involved in the programs. The survey sample…

To remedy the problems caused when staff members in research libraries are unable to read and understand foreign language materials, the library can institute special foreign language training courses. Ideally, the course should be taught by a librarian with foreign language competence and teaching ability. Basic grammar, library-oriented…