The purpose of this handbook is to assist Job Corps Training Center staff in developing an instructional system which relates to present day occupational requirements. This is a how-to-do-it handbook which emphasizes and illustrates curriculum development techniques to assist training and management staff in establishing and updating Career…

Written for State and local operators of Health Education and Welfare (HEW)-funded health service, health manpower, and health planning programs, this guide is intended to serve four major purposes: (1) Provide selected insights into the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and how it works; (2) point out potential areas for…

This supplement which accompanies chapter 6 of "Mountain-Plains Handbook: The Design and Operation of a Residential, Family Oriented Career Education Model" (CE 014 630), contains specific information concerning the state office and student placement office components of the field services division. Job descriptions of the field services…

Parental involvement is supplementary to the main line approach of the Special Needs Assessment Program (SNAP) whose main thrust is the diagnosis and remediation and/or partial alleviation of pupil needs by the child's teacher. This Parent Perception Project is an approach which provides for the involvement of parents in the process of identifying…

The New York State Archives and Records Administration (SARA) provides centralized records management services to State agencies. The State Government Records Management Information Series includes booklets and brochures on many aspects of sound records and information management. This booklet explains the purposes and benefits of records…

This booklet is both a description of activities to organize a General Educational Development program (GED) alumni association and a guide to starting an alumni group. It specifically focuses on "Operation Alumni," a project to establish a local GED alumni organization at Reading Area Community College that could serve as a state model…

This handbook provides detailed information about job sharing for both administrators and potential sharers who are interested in implementing this new work arrangement. It incorporates results of a survey of job sharing in health care organizations as well as interviews and contacts with health care providers. A section on employees and job…

Described is an interdisciplinary mainstreaming program for individualizing instruction for secondary learning disabled students, utilizing resource facilities in grades 7-9 in eight separate centers throughout Franklin County, Missouri. Aspects of this program--such as the developmental and by-pass strategies of instruction employed to help…

This guide describes program components and models of social adjustment services for refugees. Various service components of education and training programs, short term and ongoing services, and mental health services are identified. In addition, a range of existing social adjustment program approaches that reflect successful programs in the…

Designed as a resource for project directors and others who must implement career education products, this handbook is divided into two sections: a procedural guide and a set of thirty illustrated techniques. A glossary of terms and an introduction explaining basic assumptions, purposes, uses, and philosophy of the handbook precede the procedural…

As part of a series of publications reporting the promising practices gleaned from pre-elementary Right to Read programs, this guidebook introduces its readers to the format used to describe the promising practices, provides statistical and descriptive information about the pre-elementary Right to Read programs, and describes each of the four…

The intent of Title IV-C of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (the Education Amendments of 1974) is to establish innovative and exemplary projects that provide creative or imaginative solutions to problems in the areas of supplementary centers and services, health and nutritional demonstrations, and dropout prevention. The purposes of…

The workshop staff packet contains nine worksheets designed to assist adult educators in organizing and coordinating their own work and that of the workshop staff and consultants. Worksheets included are: (1) Needs Assessment/Problem Analysis and Competency Models; (2) General and Specific Learning Objectives; (3) Learning Resources…

The following elementary mathematics curriculum development projects are described in this report: Madison Project, Arithmetic Project for Teachers, Nuffield Project, Individually Prescribed Instruction - Mathematics (IPI), Individualized Mathematics System (IMS), Patterns in Arithmetic (PIA), Minnesota Mathematics and Science Teaching Project…

This booklet describes the training strategies and materials developed as part of the Tucson Early Education Model (TEEM) program for training Program Assistants to foster implementation of TEEM in local school districts. The booklet contains samples of various training materials, as well as descriptions and outlines of the Summer Training…