These guidelines for development of local programs of work experience are the result of a workshop which incorporated input from professionals in the areas of counseling, vocational education, social work, school psychology, administration, organized labor, and state labor regulations. Content briefly covers the following areas of work experience…

This first in a series of ten learning modules on the establishment of cooperative education guidelines is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teacher-coordinators knowledge of the characteristics of cooperative vocational education and experience in developing criteria for screening prospective students and for evaluating…

Twelve members of school faculty and staff participated in a refined competency-based continuation of a pilot program to train individuals to function as placement coordinators in their schools in southern Illinois. Participants enrolled in a weekly placement seminar on campus for the 1978-79 academic year and in a continuous supervised internship…

THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO DETERMINE THE QUALIFICATIONS OF EFFECTIVE OFFICE EDUCATION AND DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION TEACHER-COORDINATORS AND THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARD PROGRAM OPERATION. THE 46 DISTRIBUTIVE EDUCATION AND 19 OFFICE EDUCATION TEACHER-COORDINATORS AND THEIR SUPERVISING SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS IN ILLINOIS SUPPLIED 523 CRITICAL…

The need for bilingual bicultural school library materials and services for schools with bilingual programs and limited English speaking students was investigated in the state of Illinois. The data were collected by means of questionnaires sent to bilingual program coordinators and school librarians at 140 schools throughout the state. Targeted…

This Module is designed for use by guidance personnel in grades K-12 and at the postsecondary level. These include teachers, administrators, counselors, paraprofessionals, pupil personnel workers and any others providing services to ethnic minority persons. This Module will help each participant to differentiate between effective and ineffective…

The present and future roles of professional audiovisual media personnel are discussed in summaries of three addresses and five round-table discussions. The qualifications of a media professional are examined, along with in-school functions of media personnel, relationships among media personnel, professional ethics, and competencies requisite to…

The document presents a complete, introductory training program for potential inservice coordinators. The program format includes the use of both written and audiovisual learning materials. The purposes of the program are to provide an awareness of the responsibilities of the coordinator's role, acquaint the learner with necessary skills, and…

Intended for potential and current job placement coordinators, this guidebook describes Georgia's placement service activities in the following five areas: (1) organization of a placement service, (2) developmental activities, (3) testing, (4) individual and group work activities, and (5) followup evaluation and research. The test's introductory…

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro charged a committee with studying the needs of the university for special instructional media, surveying its existing resources in this area, and recommending a plan for coordination of use of instructional media. By and large, departments agreed that maintenance of existing equipment was an immediate…

This evaluation attempts to measure the extent and effectiveness of ESEA Title I programs designed to meet the needs of disadvantaged children and apprizes the public and the legislature of program outcomes. In keeping with USOE requirements for evaluating Title I programs, this document is constructed of (1) responses to USOE probes by…

One of a series of nine reports of Project ACTIVE (Attaining Competence for Teaching in Vocational Education), this report focuses on criteria for assessing mastery of the professional competencies (skills) important to teacher-coordinators in cooperative vocational education programs. An overview of competency-based vocational teacher education…

Focuses on the Kentucky higher education accountability model, designed to provide a systematic evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of Kentucky's 14 community colleges. Offers coordinator perceptions of model's effectiveness. (YKH)

This paper shares some of the experiences in online coordination and teacher development which have emerged in the English Language Department at the "Universitat Oberta de Catalunya". The advantages and disadvantages of coordination in an asynchronous computer-mediated environment form the backdrop to those issues which we consider to…

This guide is designed to help cooperative vocational education teachers-coordinators in New Jersey to understand the apprentice training opportunities open to their students. Covered first are the history of apprenticeship and an overview of apprenticeship today. Next, strategies are presented for linking apprentice training to cooperative…