The dissertation presents a plan for the compliance of William Rainey Harper College with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Chapter 1 discusses the background and significance of the plan and identifies major issues (such as the institution's commitment to nondiscrimination of the handicapped), defines terms, and cites limitations and…

This planning model outlines eight steps that enable local education agencies to formulate a program for staff development. The program is designed to modify organizational, managerial, and instructional practices that inhibit reading success among both children and adults. The eight action steps are: (1) assess district-wide reading needs; (2)…

This handbook describes the merits of peer counseling within a drug education and prevention program, especially its effectiveness as compared to traditional approaches to drug abuse prevention. The means and methods to developing, organizing and implementing a peer counselor program are described in detail. Implementation is presented on a day by…

In 1970 Southwest Minnesota State College was new and was developing a model teacher education program. In an attempt to respond to the question, "What does a teacher need to be able to do? the education division staff found that teacher education must be competency based, field centered, individualized, and systematically designed. In organizing…

There is no aspect of human experience or human socialization more important than cooperation with others. The person's ability to engage in sustained cooperative endeavors depends upon a series of competencies. Successful cooperation depends upon the person having an integrated and coherent identity, directionality, a clear preception of…

To permit researchers to "random access" audio and/or video instructional segments for purposes of experimental assessment and intensive analysis, the Instructional Development Control and Monitoring System is being developed. Hardware and software to be used in the IDCMS system are described and the four phases in which the system will be…

By engaging students in community service projects, action learning uses resources of the real world to give students opportunities to participate in performing tasks and making decisions that confront societal problems. Such projects should be decided on after a study of the needs of the community. After a project is selected, all relevant…

This document is divided into three sections. Section I describes, from a historical viewpoint, the need for teacher education programs in Jamaica and the subsequent development of the internship program. Internship for a teacher is defined as "a terminal experience in his preparation sequence, preceded by acquisition of a body of substantive…

This document, an elaboration on "The Report of The Task Force on Teacher Education," presents extracts of most of the specific items from that report, recasts them, and elaborates on them in an effort to prepare the way for the implementation of that original report. The preparation of this document was guided by two objectives: (a) to…

This article describes the Master of Arts Degree Program in Urban School Teaching (MUST), which was develped to serve the needs of inner-city schools with 85 to 100 percent minority enrollment. Twenty to 30 teachers from a school are selected for the graduate program that focuses on the problems and goals defined by each school staff. The school…

Three facets of the state of Washington's Right to Read program are presented in this document. The facets include: "Guidelines for School-Based Component," which discusses goals and objectives, basic assumptions, role of the state education agency, role of the local education agency, role of the right to read consultants, role of the…

These proceedings summarize the content and activities of a conference attended by continuing education deans and directors in Ohio's public and private 2- and 4-year institutions of higher education, administrators of nursing homes, and community mental health personnel. Focus is on the major goal of the conference: To examine, with respect to…

This report of a project to design a set of training guidelines for planning, managing, and evaluating cooperative education programs describes briefly the procedures used in developing the guidelines and model; discusses the various components of the planning, management, and evaluation process; and presents guidelines and criteria for designing…

In addition to providing a detailed description of the method in which the Des Moines project operates, this handbook explores the key elements in a community-based corrections approach. It presents evaluation data, describes the experience of several communities which undertook to replicate this approach, and discusses the process by which other…

This practicum reports on the conceptualization, development, testing, and implementation of the guidelines, procedures, and a model for alternative programs for earning graduation credit. New requirements for graduation were adopted by the Maryland State Department of Education in November, 1974, but the development of specific policies and…