This report summarizes the activities of the 1969 Vocational Guidance Institute. Each activity lasted one week, the first being a language orientation week. Field activities filled the second week as participants toured plants, etc. During the third week each small group wrote and presented a paper on their experiences. This summary includes: (1)…

This guide to an introductory television course on exceptional children provides overviews of its 54 programs and lists critical vocabulary, required and suggested reading, and questions to consider during the reading and the telecasts. Various methods, programs, and exceptionalities are covered; articles by Laurence J. Peters on prescriptive…

This paper reviews literature on subcultural differences in language development to find out what the literature suggests about the nature of a language program for lower class 4-year-olds. The following conclusions are reached: (1) differences in syntactic and phonological competence are not important barriers to communication for the lower class…

This program guide was prepared by two business education leaders for use in teaching typewriting on the secondary level. In addition to offering suggestions on teaching techniques and methods, this 4-semester outline presents the major organizational problems facing the typewriting teacher. Specific problems given attention include teaching the…

Microteaching, a technique for training teachers to develop specific teaching skills through the use of a scaled down classroom situation, has proved to be not only effective but also strongly appealing to teachers. A state-of-the-art paper entitled "Microteaching: History and Present Status" prepared by the authors for the ERIC…

The middle manager of today needs to acquire new skills and knowledge to enable him effectively to manage tomorrow's corporation. The purposes of this study were: to provide a means by which managers may assess the future world of work and to describe it by means of these assessments; and to compare present with past predictions of the same future…

The study evaluated the effects of the use of interval running training techniques instead of the traditional physical training methods employed at the U.S. Marine Corps Officer Candidate School. One platoon was trained by use of interval running techniques while a control platoon employed the continuous running method. Both methods improved the…

A Science Skills Center was designed and operated as part of an NDEA Summer Institute for Teachers in Grades 6-9, in which 40 teachers participated. These teachers were provided with the opportunity to participate in demonstration centers working with some 90 children, whose reading scores ranged from 3.0 to 8.5, and who ranged in age from 11 to…

The purpose of this doctoral thesis was to collect, analyze, and evaluate research of written problems in elementary school mathematics conducted between 1925 and 1965, and to determine generalizations resulting from the studies fulfilling certain criteria. The analytical-documentary method of research was employed in the study. A total of 239…

This is the report of a study designed to (1) examine the status of teacher-training preparation in the new elementary science programs in methods classes of institutions in Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, (2) identify characteristics of the methods courses, and (3) examine opinions of the instructors about the new science…

A program was conducted 1) to identify sources of teacher error in administering individual behavior modification programs to behaviorally retarded children, and 2) to develop effective individual and group training programs for a variety of professional and paraprofessional teaching personnel. Analysis of videotapes of teacher performance reveals…

Innovative approaches should be used in introducing black literature to students so that they may develop an awareness of the ethnic pluralism of American society. A variety of sources provides the teacher with literary materials and critical perspectives as background for presenting black literature in any of several ways: (1) a survey of black…

The techniques in this two-volume book are those developed by the author during the past 12 years at the British Centre in Stockholm. Volume 1 contains descriptions of the various techniques of teaching oral English; Volume 2 gives examples of the actual teaching material used to show how these techniques work in practice. The second volume,…

The great variety of language differences in South Carolina has created some problems which this program, developed by the South Carolina State Department of Education, aims to overcome. The present package of materials was designed to provide the elementary teacher of grades 1, 2, and 3 with a general background of information and a specific…

The report of an interdisciplinary conference held at Santa Monica, California (March 16-18, 1970), contains papers on interdisciplinary programing for infants with known or suspected cerebral dysfunction. Following a general overview by R. R. Rembolt, a description of the Meeting Street School Home Developmental Guidance Program (Providence,…