This book presents an extensive examination of the organization and operation of the Vermont model day care delivery system which was designed in the context of the proposed Family Assistance Plan (FAP). The model tested the ability of Federal and State employees to work together and share resources in designing a new approach to welfare reform.…

This report, a clear statement of how one district developed a planning system, offers both a theoretical and a practical approach to providing the superintendent, his staff, and the board of education with a comprehensive planning system instrument for making policy decisions and allocating resources. Also provided are guidelines for involving…

This report is meant to be a tool for the recognition and resolution of a major concern at Los Angeles City College--vocational education programs for the disadvantaged. It is intended to help the college develop programs in which the disadvantaged can successfully function and from which he can enter the world of work as a competent and skilled…

Career education is a developmental process through which students discover their interests and talents, explore career opportunities, establish realistic and defensible career objectives, and develop a degree of employability. This publication reports the efforts utilized by the Beaverton School District, Oregon, in developing a master plan for…

This monograph is the fourth in a series summarizing the work progress of the Human Services Manpower Career Center, a special research and development project funded by the U. S. Department of Labor. This report presents a developmental model and guidelines for organizing a working coalition of concerned community groups, for identifying major…

This report examines the topic of moral education and describes the current trend toward increased adoption of moral education programs for public schools. The author identifies four different approaches to moral education, focusing mainly on the cognitive-developmental approach or Kohlberg model and the affective-relativist or values…

Guidance personnel must work with other educators to integrate career guidance activities into a developmental K-adult program, rather than presenting them as a series of isolated activities. Examples of cooperative planning through which this end may be realized are presented. (Author/MJB)

Group counseling is defined. The values and individual goals of group counseling are discussed. The developmental self-concept approach is described in its three phases: phenomonological, analytical, and behavioristic. There is a brief description of group counseling skills and techniques. The steps in developing a group counseling program are…

The concept of Levels of Use of the Innovation (LoU) permits an operational, cost-feasible description and documentation of whether or not an educational innovation or treatment is being implemented. Eight different LoU's can be reliably measured: nonuse, orientation, preparation, mechanical uses, routine, refinement, integration, and renewal.…

Offers a model for teacher education programs that will facilitate the development of a teacher with the capacity to analyze a given situation (large or small) and respond on the basis of knowledge and understanding. (Author/RK)

A comprehensive peer-instructional system, was developed to provide leaders for small discussion groups in undergraduate college course. The program's structure and function is outlined. Presented at the Indiana Council on Family Relations, Muncie, Indiana, February 18, 1975. (Author)

An evaluation paradigm which describes interagency coordination as a multidimensional (climate, resources, policies, people, and process), interactional, and developmental effort is presented for use in special education as a: training tool for those involved in coordination efforts; guide for developing and evaluating interagency coordination…

Distance educators should be aware of the advantages and disadvantages of new technologies as they design new programs. Two papers discuss a model for understanding the nature of the teaching and learning interaction and present a case study of the use of computer-mediated communication technology in the delivery of a graduate credit course. (JOW)

The article describes a databased approach to cooperative planning with learning disabled students. The conditions for establishing a working relationship for planning are discussed; steps in conducting a curriculum based assessment are outlined; and a framework for instructional planning is presented; and features of ongoing monitoring and…