This study reports the first year of an exemplary program at Garfield High School, Seattle, where a program of occupational skills was instituted as a regular part of the comprehensive school curriculum. First year objectives included efforts to: (1) plan and develop limited operation of vocational-technical programs, (2) establish technical…

The problem of this study was to determine the effect of an inservice education program of evaluation on school-based personnel in Escambia County, Florida, as measured by cognitive testing (knowledge) and affective (attitudinal) instrumentation. In addition, the determination of the specific objectives, met, or not met, by inservice participants…

Presented is the report on a practicum to implement a series of activities to assist Directors of Special Education in the task of personnel identification and selection. Specific issues considered are skills or competencies in special education staff roles, guidelines for special education certification in Texas, and practices and techniques in…

Intended for Special Education Directors, the source book is designed to provide assistance in the areas of personnel identification and selection. In part I, recommended competencies are listed for the following special education staff: resource classroom teacher, self-contained teacher, vocational adjustment teacher, generic classroom teacher,…

This paper presents seven recommendations to counselor educators and supervisors as a beginning step toward improving preservice and in-service training in career development, career guidance, and career education. The background and rationale for these recommendations is provided, along with further delineation of counselor competencies needed.…

Discusses the training of science teachers and the development of science curricula in Nigeria. Various universities provide pre-service and in-service training, are developing science programs, and are investigating approaches to overcoming language problems in the schools. Suggestions for the future are given. (BC)

Corporations have become a significant part of the nation's educational system, the author states, and regard their education and training activities as necessary business functions. Employer-sponsored education, both in-house and at outside institutions, trains new employees, but most programs are for upgrading present personnel. (MF)

The feasibility of organizing selected professional development skills and knowledge into a performance-based learning sequence was examined at Oregon State. Six general competency areas were derived for preservice and graduate vocational-industrial inservices teachers. (LBH)

In Israel difficulties training social workers in family therapy arise from inherent resistance to change in social and other professional agencies and from insufficient experience in training methodology. The family in Israel is undergoing social and cultural changes. Paper presented at the First International Congress of Family Therapy, February…

The nature of the responsibility for continuing education for environmental professionals that rests upon five groups is discussed. These groups are environmental health workers, educational institutions, public health agencies, governments, and professional associations. (MR)

Focuses on one two-year college's (School of Allied Health Technologies, State University of New York at Alfred, New York) activities in assisting health related facilities to meet their continuing education needs. (TA)

Describes the establishment of a partnership between Blue Ridge Community College (BRCC) and the Augusta Correctional Center, whereby a BRCC faculty member became a full-time executive on loan to the prison and BRCC brokered various staff training and development services. (DMM)

Describes the components and approach used in a computer-assisted map analysis program. Provides a course syllabus, program principles, and a listing of instructional resources. Also identifies and explains program materials for student and instructor use. (ML)

Describes reading-textbook evaluation and selection processes and argues that improved basal readers are likely to be developed if textbook adoption procedures improve. States that basal reader evaluation criteria and procedures should be developed and applied by those professionals most directly responsible for the teaching of reading. (Author/NH)

Features 2 of 12 exemplary math and science programs identified by educational groups. Washington School District, Phoenix, Arizona, improved student achievement in science by hands-on laboratory experience and creative staff use. Manchester, Connecticut, elementary students raised mathematics scores thorough an activities-based curriculum with…