The Child Development Program at John Adams School in North Brunswick, New Jersey, was designed to be an immediate intervention for children with learning problems in the early elementary grades. This two-volume guide describes the work done in the program and how the program can be replicated. The first book details characteristics of the…

This paper documents an approach to meeting the training requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) and the "reasonable accommodation" requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for individuals with developmental disabilities. It describes a training program used with three adult workers with mild mental…

This newsletter theme issue features articles on training of direct service staff working with persons with developmental disabilities in employment, education, and residential settings. The articles examine job training, delivery systems, training models, and implications of current approaches. The newsletter includes three articles presenting…

This guide is designed to help workplace trainers in Australia's coal industry improve coal miners' operator and general communication skills through a curriculum that integrates training in language, literacy, and numeracy. The following topics are discussed in the guide's seven sections: the changing workplace (changing work environment;…

This final report describes the activities and outcomes of a federally funded project that was designed to increase the availability of graduate level Essential Early Educators in Vermont who can: (1) provide integrated, family-centered, early childhood special education services to young children with disabilities and their families; (2) provide…

This manual, which is based on extensive research on cognitive psychology and organizational theory, contains resources for nine workshop sessions designed to help people become creative problem solvers in their workplace and their lives. The materials are based on Bransford and Stein's IDEAL model, according to which successful problem solving…

This document contains four papers from a symposium on innovation and creativity and their relationship to human resource development (HRD). "Intrapreneurial Programs and Their Impact on Sales, Profit, and Return to Investors" (Melissa H. Marcus, Dennis G. Tesolowski, Clinton H. Isbell) reports on a study in which 100 of 217 randomly…

This book summarizes a 4-year program of research and consultation in vocational-technical education and training conducted by the Education and Employment Division of the Population and Human Resources Department of the World Bank. The introduction outlines the structure of the analysis and the research base on which it was developed. Part 1,…

Workplace training strategies in selected foreign countries were examined from the standpoint of their relevance to development of a national training policy in the United States. Case studies of the following were conducted: apprenticeship training in Germany, enterprise-based training in Japan, stimulation of training by training taxes in France…

A technical note based on work in Indonesia covers designing and using simulations for training nonformal educators. The first section defines simulations and discusses situations when simulation is appropriate, participants, and considerations for trainers planning a simulation. A sample simulation about planning. "Why is Participation…

This training journal, a product of the Career Information Delivery Systems (CIDS) Project, is designed to provide trainers with the necessary training delivery skills needed to create effective adult learning experiences. Addressed in the individual units of the journal are the following topics: basic elements of training experiences (content and…

This resource notebook is intended to assist vocational educators and minority business development center representatives working at the secondary, postsecondary, and adult levels in developing, improving, and expanding entrepreneurial training programs by developing program models, training strategies, and bibliographies of resource materials.…

Although negative outcomes of intensive management training are the exception rather than the rule, it is important to recognize and take measures to prevent the possible negative effects of such training. Intensive management development training, particularly in encounter group settings, creates a powerful situation that enables managers to take…

THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTAINS 43 INDEXED AND ABSTRACTED ENTRIES ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOR ADULTS, ESPECIALLY COMMUNITY PUBLIC SERVICE, PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS UNDER TITLE I OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 AND OTHER FEDERAL PROGRAMS, REPORTS OF SPECIFIC REGIONAL AND LOCAL PROGRAMS ON MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT, AND URBAN AND…

THE 177 REPORTS COMPRISING THIS RESEARCH REVIEW DEAL WITH SUCH AREAS AND TOPICS AS LEARNING-RELATED ABILITIES, INTERESTS, AND MOTIVES, PROGRAM PLANNING AND ADMINISTRATION, LEARNING FORMATS AND ENVIRONMENTS, INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS AND TECHNIQUES, ADULT BASIC EDUCATION, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, MANAGEMENT AND THE PROFESSIONS, INSTITUTIONAL SPONSORS…