Students need to be competent in science because of its impact on everyday decision-making, the rapid pace of change and the increasing interdependent global economy (Lawton, 2007; U.S. Department of Education, 2000; Lederman, 1998). According to the National Research Council, "Teachers of science should develop communities of science learners…

Designed to provide two-year college educators with guidelines and suggestions for program planning, design, delivery, and evaluation in the area of training for international trade, this book contains narratives on program development and sample materials that can be used as models. Chapter 1 describes the formation of partnerships to provide…

This document is intended to help community educators decide whether to pursue an entrepreneurship program and how to organize the program. It includes a summary of various models and resources that exist. The first section reviews an 1988 survey conducted by the Center for Community Education and Economic Development, which showed a nationwide…

This handbook, which grew out of a timing project for development officers in rural Sri Lanka and which is intended for development workers around the world, consists of more than 50 training activities that enable women's and mixed groups to work together to carry out health and income generation projects. The handbook is based on several…

This handbook for Peace Corps agricultural programmers, trainers, and volunteers is designed to aid them in identifying storage problems and devising solutions to them. Part 1 covers grain storage project programming. Information provided for the volunteers involved in grain storage projects includes project goals and objectives as well as methods…

The 2.5-day workshop described in this manual was designed to meet the growing concern that small projects administered by the Peace Corps were not truly community projects or priorities. To foster more community involvement in the design, implementation, and evaluation of projects, this workshop is geared to the training of Peace Corps volunteers…

This manual is a guide to the design and implementation of workshops on inclusion of gender issues in U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) projects and programs. It describes a workshop to increase awareness of, information about, and skills for addressing gender issues in development programming. Its target audience is training…

This manual is designed to assist development professionals in nongovernmental organizations to provide effective training in the incorporation of gender considerations into their development programs and projects. It provides information and implementation of a 3-day workshop. Section I provides information on the manual content, structure, and…

This booklet explains the features and benefits of learning communities and summarizes Australia's experience with them. Part 1 traces the history of learning communities from the 1970s through the present, presents several definitions of the term "learning community," lists reasons for becoming a learning community, and explains the…

This catalog lists exemplary field-based program improvement products identified by the Dissemination and Utilization Products and Services Program (D&U) at the National Center for Research in Vocational Education. It is designed to increase awareness of these products among vocational educators and to provide information about them that…

This manual, developed for use by Peace Corps volunteers, attempts to help development counselors to understand the needs of remote-area groups and to provide for those needs through effective self-help projects. The projects covered are those that can solve most effectively, on the village level, the most pressing problems. The manual is written…