This study describes the impact of certain state-mandated beginning teacher programs on the transition from student to teacher. Program impact was considered at a number of levels: ideological/societal, institutional, instructional, and personal. Sixteen beginning teachers in two states with mandated induction programs were studied throughout…

Ten papers focus on the College for Living Project at Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colorado, a multidisciplinary approach to education for adults with developmental disabilities. The document begins with a review of the project's formation, noting the cooperation of college faculty and administrators. Subsequent papers comment upon the…

This document presents an overview of the design and implementation stages of the Spencerport (New York) More Effective Schools/Teaching Project. The first section lists nine reasons for the uniqueness of the Spencerport project, including district size, its racial and economic components, participant satisfaction, a set of clearly defined goals,…

The practicum report describes the development of a communication network designed to enhance cooperation among parents and staff of a private learning disabilities clinic in Miami, Florida. The program featured a variety of contact follow-up forms, a series of workshops, and periodic student progress reports and follow-up conferences with both…

This report describes plans for implementing a proposed center for research on teacher education. The proposal for the Center was a collaborative effort involving the 19 campuses of the California State University System to develop a national base for research on teacher education. The first section describes briefly the efforts undertaken to…

This paper offers guidelines for policy makers who are responsible for establishing incentive programs for teachers. It provides a framework for: (1) identifying performance-based incentive systems; (2) examining their underlying assumptions; (3) classifying program operations (types of incentives, methods of reward delivery, timing and types of…

This volume, the first in a series of three, contains the reports of four European experiments that were part of a process of cooperative monitoring of a project on adult education and community development. The theme of these experiments is "participation of women and men in decisions affecting their daily lives over a wide range of local…

The field of alcohol server awareness and training has grown dramatically in the past several years and the idea of training servers to reduce alcohol problems has become a central fixture in the current alcohol policy debate. The San Mateo County, California Server Information Program (SIP) is a community-based prevention strategy designed to…

A computerized curriculum monitoring system (CMS) was developed at Shelby State Community College (SSCC) in Tennessee to restrict student registration to courses for which they have completed the prerequisites and corequisites. The CMS is a subroutine of the on-line registration program, which matches students' course selections against their…

This monograph presents resolutions passed by conferences of European ministers responsible for sport in five meetings from 1975 to 1986. The meetings were held in Brussels, London, Palma de Majorca, Malta, and Dublin. Reported also are declarations, press communiques, and resolutions issued by informal working parties and informal meetings of…

A discussion is provided of the role of the advisory committee in postsecondary vocational education. First, the development of federal legislation creating advisory committees at the national and state levels, and mandating the formation and defining the duties of local advisory committees is reviewed. The next section explains the process of…

This chapter presents the history, philosophy, and curriculum of the IDD (Instructional Design and Development) program at Florida State University. The origins of the program are described, the primary factors that influenced the program as it now exists are detailed, and the major competency areas of the program are examined. The current…

The historical development of inservice teacher education is traced in this paper and some comparisons are made between past and present school circumstances that bear on inservice practices. Eleven traditional methods of inservice teacher education are briefly described: (1) institutes; (2) reading circles; (3) summer school; (4) supervision; (5)…

A federally funded project investigated a computer networking system in special education being implemented in Johnson County, Wyoming. The goals of the networking system project were: (1) to demonstrate a computer networking system as it applies to an educational setting; and (2) to conduct a research project to study the effects of computer…

The manual covers the design and implementation of respite care services for families with developmentally disabled members. An introductory chapter examines the concept of respite care, notes the benefits for families, providers, and community residential programs, and places the service as one part of a comprehensive array of family support…