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Seeley, David S. – 1979
Urban education is beginning to adopt a new focus, based on the ideas that all children can and must become competent in reading, writing, and mathematics, and that this objective can only be achieved by shifting from a "service delivery" approach to one based on the collaboration of students, parents, teachers, and the community. There still…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Role, Community Support, Competency Based Education
Carr, John C. – 1984
Since 1975 the Contoocook Valley District, a small rural cooperative school district in southwestern New Hampshire, has developed a performance-based student competency program which has resulted in a dramatic increase in scores on the Stanford Achievement Test. The district is comprised of 9 towns, covers an area of almost 300 square miles, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Support, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Evaluation
Parrett, William H. – Small School Forum, 1984
Educational frameworks to accommodate rural America are designed around the concept of smallness and incorporate basic skill development through programed instruction, individual projects, use of volunteers, cross-age tutoring, and computer study. Other areas of focus include community involvement, practical skills, familiarization with the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Support, Competency Based Education, Cross Age Teaching
Connell, Janie B. – 1985
This module, one in a series of competency-based guidance program training packages, focuses on specific professional and paraprofessional competencies of guidance personnel. Modules in Category C suggest how to conduct, accomplish, or carry out selected career guidance program activities. The purpose of this module is to help career guidance…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Career Guidance, Community Support
Jones, Joan; Quinn, Karen – 1977
Intended to be utilized as an instructional unit in preservice or inservice vocational teacher education or as a part of a total performance-based teacher education (PBTE) program, this module is one of two competency-based modules developed to train vocational personnel how to install and manage competency-based instructional (CBI) programs. The…
Descriptors: Administration, Community Support, Competency Based Education, Competency Based Teacher Education
Kansas State Dept. of Education, Topeka. – 1978
This document consists of two publications: the five-year state plan for career education in Kansas and a handbook providing guidelines for program development at the local school level. The plan includes the following information: (1) the results of a two-year needs assessment survey; (2) its two goals: first, to increase awareness of the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Involvement, Community Schools, Community Support