This Coordinator's Guide accompanies the module Helping Students Develop Career Decision-Making Skills. It defines the coordinator's role from four aspects: setting the tone, setting the pace, facilitating the discussion, and evaluating. Suggestions for preparing and presenting the workshop are offered. The actual text is in the accompanying…

To help high school and area vocational center distributive education teacher-coordinators carry out methods of project-oriented and project laboratory instruction, Western Michigan University conducted three one-day seminars for 40 distributive educators. Presentations were: (1) "Implementation of Project Laboratories" by J.A. Daenzer, (2)…

Developed by a research and development program director, research associate, and curriculum consultant and reviewed by Manpower Development and Training (MDT) personnel, this handbook is for supervisors and coordinators of MDT programs. The first part contains basic information on understanding the cooperative plan of instruction, which includes…

This handbook provides a model approach to the implementation of community education; it outlines and discusses field-tested steps and establishes the rationale for their implementation in a sequential order. An introductory chapter that explores the unlimited potential of the community education concept is followed by a chapter that identifies…

A selected group of 18 school library media supervisors from Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Hawaii met in an institute to systematically identify the essential competencies for their role and to interact with a group of nine instructors of library media education in colleges and universities. The institute program was conducted in three stages,…

To find among industrial arts department chairmen, secondary school principals, and industrial arts teachers in Missouri the actual and ideal role perceptions of the chairman, 73 public senior high schools in the state employing two or more full-time industrial arts teachers with a department chairman were surveyed using a 2-part instrument…

In order to design appropriate vocational education programs, a survey of vocational interests and attitudes of the students in Grade 10, with a random sampling of teachers and of Grade 12 students, was conducted by Educational Research Associates for Windsor (Connecticut) High School. It was found that the students generally lacked vocational…

Based on introspection and interview techniques of occupational analysis, pedagogical performance requirements were identified for teacher-coordinators of cooperative education programs. Another specific objective of this phase of the project "Model Curricula for Vocational and Technical Teacher Education" was to determine which…

Proposes four training steps: (1) management expresses commitment to system implementation, (2) organizational levels increase awareness, (3) managers/metric coordinators receive special training, and (4) staff receives implementation training. Discusses five program elements: awareness and metric update, international units system, functional…

Describes a program for involving parents of emotionally disturbed children and adolescents at a state mental hospital. Information is presented on the goals of the program, parent discussion groups, family activity groups, and the role of the coordinator. (JMB)

Reviews current issues involved in teacher training in computer science and literacy and discusses the Northwest Council for Computer Education's project to develop competencies useful in guiding training programs for elementary and secondary teachers as well as computer curriculum coordinators. (MBR)

A study of the perceived importance of selected tasks for building and coordinating educational articulation programs in Alabama and the frequency with which those tasks were actually performed by articulation personnel revealed considerable disagreement about both the functions of articulation programs and their administration. (MSE)

Federal law (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), 1997) requires that states participating in Part C, Services for Infants and Toddlers, "…maintain and implement a statewide, comprehensive, coordinated, multidisciplinary, interagency system…". The challenges of preparing and maintaining trained personnel to provide these…

The Microelectronics Education Programme (MEP) has focused its attentions on the classroom teacher as the agent of educational change by providing computer based learning coordinators to implement teacher training programs to support all aspects of the school curriculum. Discusses computer training before MEP, with MEP involvement, and after…