A study evaluated the design, implementation, and evaluation procedures in an experimental dental school faculty development program to increase faculty skills in lecturing and related teaching strategies. (MSE)

Describes an increasingly widely-used scheme of second-chance adult education in which adult students participated in classes with traditional community college students. (EM)

DURING THE SUMMER OF 1963 NINETEEN PERSONS IN RAMALLAH, JORDAN AND THIRTY-SEVEN PERSONS IN IBADAN, NIGERIA TOOK A SIX WEEK TRAINING WORKSHOP COURSE IN PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION. THE COURSE CONSISTED OF LECTURES, GROUP DISCUSSIONS, READING ASSIGNMENTS, INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCES, PROGRAM WRITING, EDITING, AND STUDENT TRIALS. THE TRAINEES MADE COMMENDABLE…

Bilingual/bicultural education, with its focus on the linguistic and cultural needs of America's multicultural population, is emerging as a potential type of educational curriculum. Difficulties encountered by the non-English-speaking child, with instruction presented in a language essentially foreign to him, point to the value of bilingual and…

INCLUDED IN THIS DOCUMENT ARE THE RATIONALE AND OUTLINE OF THE "LINGUA PLAN," A BILINGUAL EDUCATION PROGRAM DEVELOPED BY THE STAFF OF THE GALTON INSTITUTE TO IMPROVE THE PRIMARY EDUCATION OF MEXICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN WHO ENTER KINDERGARTEN WITH LITTLE OR NO KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLISH. THE MAJOR PURPOSE OF PROJECT LINGUA IS TO DETERMINE WHETHER (1)…

This is a rationale and description for a dissemination program being developed by the School Practice and Service Division of the National Institute of Education. The document is being circulated to solicit comments on the soundness of the proposed work. The proposed program constitutes a coordinated attempt to make information, products, skills,…

An experimental program was undertaken to find a means of facilitating the teaching of art to large numbers of students in a Humanities course at the University of Miami. Original paintings were available for study in the University art gallery, but there was insufficient room for large classes in the gallery and a specialist teacher was not…

A model program, Training, Rehabilitation, and Employment for Addicts in Treatment (TREAT), was conducted to coordinate the resources of community-based, employment-related services to help former drug addicts become productively employed. From 635 applications, ninety-five ex-addicts were randomly selected to receive training (experimental group)…

The Education Industry Exchange Program was initiated (1) to provide nonvocational industrial arts teachers with industrial skill training to teach trade and industrial subjects (to be accomplished through a graduate education program in cooperation with industry), (2) to enable craftspersons and skilled workers who were interested in teaching…

The manual describes an offcampus intern program for 12th-grade students in political science. Description of the project, Government Responsibility and Student Participation (GRASP), is divided into six chapters. Chapter I, Deciding Whether to Adopt the Model, identifies the need for an intern course and projects presumed student accomplishments…