The manual provides an overview of legislation, policies, and guidelines pertaining to special education in Alberta, Canada. The introductory chapter presents a rationale for special education with sections on policy, guidelines, and procedures; standards; the Cascade model of service delivery; education of disabled adult students; alternative…

This packet includes an administrator's manual, and manuals for each of five 45-minute sessions of an inservice teachers' workshop on the use of television in the classroom. The session manuals, designed to be used in conjunction with video cassettes, contain suggestions for activities, summaries of the sessions, and lists of relevant readings.…

Designed to be utilized in a national workshop conducted to aid teacher educators in preparing vocational education teachers to install and manage competency-based instruction, this training module follows the format and structure employed in the performance-based teacher education (PBTE) curricula materials developed by the Center for Vocational…

Proposing to orient the reader as to how Georgia is meeting the challenge of vocational education for the handicapped at the secondary level, this paper discusses the following four major areas: compliance with federal guidelines; program design (including a student flow chart and job descriptions for related vocational instructors and…

Provided are the appendixes to the final report of the Leadership Training Institute (LTI) in Learning Disabilities at the University of Arizona. Sections cover the following areas: (1) reports of LTI meetings and conferences; (2) contracted papers on research in the field of learning disabilities (such as "Neurological Factors in Learning…

The role and attributes of deans of nursing as administrators of baccalaureate or higher degree programs are considered by six deans who contributed to a continuing education workshop series. In addition to outlining skills and attributes needed by administrators, Elizabeth Grossman examines five basic administrative functions: planning,…

Directed toward groups, organizations, and programs dependent on effective fund raising, this book views the grant management responsibility as an extension of fund-raising and offers advice on how to be successful at grant management. Such topics as grant program organization, management strategies, fiscal controls, monitoring, reporting and…

One of a series, this handbook is designed to assist individuals involved in area development to gain knowledge and understanding of the public and private sources of funds for support of various area development activities. National, regional, and local private sector sources of development capital are examined to give an overview of business…

This volume is directed primarily toward local Teacher Corps practitioners and is intended to serve as a companion to Volume 1 of this final report. This volume provides an additional context for the description of and assumptions about Teacher Corps project implementation. Data collected in 1980 during site visits to selected projects and…

To assess the state's role as an instrument of national education policy, researchers examined four states' responses to federal programs under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. They focused, first, on how states' political and organizational contexts interacted with…

Instructor responsibilities, procedures for completing activities safely, and instructional methods and techniques are outlined to assist instructors in the Northwest Outward Bound School (Portland, Oregon) as they strive for teaching excellence. Information is organized into six chapters addressing: history and philosophy of Outward Bound; course…

This booklet describes the networking function of the Far West Teacher Corps Network, one of 12 networks set up in 1974 to share information on Teacher Corps projects and practices. In the first section, Teacher Corps networks are defined. Section 2 outlines the background and growth of the Far West Network in terms of its goals and…

This handbook presents guidelines for developing, monitoring, and evaluating cooperative educational opportunities that allow students to document learning gained on their current job, through work-study placements, or through placements in local business. The handbook first outlines the objectives of the Community College of Vermont's cooperative…

To assist in institution-building in selected developing countries, the Office of International Programs/Denver Research Institute (OIP/DRI) developed a training component that focused on channeling local input to program design and implementation. The program was initially developed to focus on enhancing the role of women in national development…

Organizational matters and strategies useful in developing more effective collegiate summer sessions are discussed, and examples of some productive strategies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are reported. Four elements of organizational structure in higher education considered are organizational environment, mission and goals, governance…