This teaching module is developed for use in inservice training for parent educators who serve as home visitors. It may be used by teachers, parent volunteers, paraprofessionals, or other adults who want to develop home learning activities that meet the individual needs of children. This module shows a home visitor how to solicit ideas for…

Reported are results of a survey of 69 preservice and inservice special education training programs for paraprofessionals in institutions of higher education; and presented are program descriptions based on material and information gathered from the survey, from on-site visits, and at regional conferences. Noted among findings are that a broad…

Migrant Education Programs are designed for those students who, because of the migratory nature of their parents' employment, are required to move from one school district to another during the school year. In many instances these students, because of sporadic attendance and discontinuity of their educational experiences, have found it difficult,…

The Choctaw Adult Education Project is described in this annual report by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. The report presents the following: (1) Summary of Class Sites and Staffing; (2) Curriculum (basic literacy, health education, menu planning, budgeting, income tax preparation, food stamp program, nutrition, and the Tribal…

The module is one of a series of eight developed to provide inservice training for administrators of career education programs. It attempts to identify the essential components of comprehensive career education program development. A careful examination is made of the major components of program development: curriculum, staff development, guidance…

The purpose of this study was to determine which colleges and universities in the United States and Canada offer programs for the preparation or inservice education of school business officials and to describe the nature of the various programs offered. State directors of school finance and presidents of the various state and provincial…

Volume 2 contains copies of the instruments used in the assessment of Iowa's adult basic education (ABE) program and aggregate statewide responses. Included are questionnaires and findings completed by the evaluation committee, coordinators, directors, teachers (both intent and current practice forms), students, learning center coordinators,…

The purpose of this project was to develop and field test a model for delivering teaching competency instruction to inexperienced vocational teachers. An off-campus course was developed utilizing six individualized learning packages or modules based on 38 competencies considered most important for beginning teachers. Twelve teachers from the three…

One significant difference between competency-based teacher education (CBTE) and traditional teacher education is the use of the teacher educator. In the CBTE approach the teacher educator's role is that of a learning manager, guide, and resource person, while the conventional approach utilizes the instructor as a disseminator of information.…

This paper describes the objectives and organization of the Middle Management Center (MMC), a university-based interdisciplinary resource team dedicated to improving school management practices through involvement with school principals. The author, who is also director of the MMC, first discusses the place of principals in school administration…

The report is an evaluation of the Career Education Personnel Model Project (CEPM), which was initiated for the Michigan Department of Education in the spring of 1972. The purpose of CEPM project was to develop competency-based instructional models for the preparation and training of personnel who plan and implement career education programs. The…

The report on paraprofessionals in special education focuses on updating information on utilization and training and recommendations for future directions. Reported in the literature review (1973-75) is a continuing trend toward favorable reception and positive use of paraprofessionals in special education. From questionnaires (a sample is…

This Alabama State Annual Evaluation Report on programs, projects, services and activities funded in whole or in part under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act for Fiscal Year 1974 (FY74) is organized into three parts. Part One is organized into an "Introduction" and 15 sub-sections discussing the following topics…

Responding to the public demand for accountability, Project R.O.M.E. (Results Oriented Management in Education) is concerned with identifying and developing competencies for building-level administrators. This two-volume report, one of six interrelated documents, describes the processes and procedures used to identify school administrators'…

A case study was conducted in order to explore the working relationships between the administrative staff of Belleville Area College (BAC) in Illinois and the members of its 21 vocational-technical advisory committees. Case study methods included interviews with administrators, supervisors of curriculum areas, and coordinators; attendance at…