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Ryan, John; Spooner, Kendrick L. – 1978
This planning handbook is first in a series of three handbooks developed for individuals, school districts, and agencies interested in implementing career education programs. This handbook is divided into the following four units: (1) needs analysis; (2) model selection; (3) work plan development; and (4) application form and procedures. A brief…
Descriptors: Career Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Needs Assessment
Hunter, Andrea; Hamar, Rosalind – 1981
A three-step process for developing a program to help youth learn independent living skills is described. The steps are: (1) identifying and ranking specific skills; (2) developing curriculum packages; and (3) involving adults from the local community to help teach those skills to youth. A list of 20 independent living skills is offered along with…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Curriculum Development, Daily Living Skills, Educational Resources
Sussman, Tara – Issue Notes, 2000
This issue of WIN (Welfare Information Network) Issue Notes raises some major issues that agencies may want to address as they consider expanding collaborative efforts. It describes collaborative efforts and identifies resources that could prove useful in designing successful collaborations. Section 1 offers background. Section 2 answers these…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Coordination
Maag, Kathy; Hoffman, Peter – Foundation Development Abstracts, 1992
Good relationships between community colleges and the businesses in their communities can lend company expertise to college programs and increase corporate contributions to the college's foundation. A business roundtable, which establishes a solid relationship between corporate sponsors and the college and focuses on an important current topic, is…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Conferences, Corporate Support, Fund Raising
Vetter, Louise; And Others – 1977
A project was conducted to develop three prototype comprehensive career planning programs and to offer those prototypes as models that could be used by both educators and personnel directors who are interested in helping employed women improve their occupational status. A national survey of programs in operation in community and junior colleges…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Planning, College Programs, Employed Women
Shalaway, Linda; And Others – 1978
The Michigan State University Institute for Research on Teaching, an aggregate of public school teachers and full-time investigative personnel, came under review by a one-day conference of teachers, teacher organization representatives, educational researchers, and state and federal government officials. Discussion topics that arose from the…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Information Dissemination
Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh (Scotland). Esmee Fairbairn Economics Research Centre. – 1978
The document introduces a project to develop course packages integrating innovative and conventional economics teaching techniques. The major objective of the project was to improve productivity in economics teaching at the college level. The document is presented in four sections. Section I explains that the project was initiated in 1976 by TEFRC…
Descriptors: Economics, Economics Education, Educational Needs, Educational Practices
Short, Paula M. – 1988
Background for this monograph comes from a study of in-school suspension programs conducted in schools in North Carolina. Chapter 1 focuses on the effectively disciplined school in terms of a total school perspective and the characteristics of a well-disciplined school. Chapter 2 addresses three categories of administrative discipline strategies:…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Discipline, Discipline Policy, Discipline Problems
Academy Update, 1994
This document consists of six issues of a newsletter entitled "Academy Update", extending from fall 1992 through fall 1995 (three years). This serial is published by the National Academy of Early Childhood (NAEYC) programs to improve and recognize the quality of care and education provided for young children in early childhood programs. The…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Child Health, Child Welfare
BCEL Bulletin, 1986
This bulletin aims to provide guidance to business companies in developing an employee volunteer literacy program in which employees volunteer their time to assist in such aspects of community adult literacy campaigns as advocacy, public relations, fundraising, community leadership, and tutoring. A section on assessing local community needs…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Coleman, Laurence J.; And Others – Teaching/Learning Issues, 1989
This pamphlet examines instructional improvement process in postsecondary education. It first discusses the importance of teaching, revealing that too little sustained attention to the process of teaching is a major deterrent to its improvement, and explains why teaching evaluation has been largely abandoned as the sole improvement mechanism.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Educational Quality, Higher Education
Lopez-Valadez, Jeanne – 1989
With the decline of manufacturing, industry faces the layoff of many low-skilled workers and a shortage of skilled workers. To fill the gap, workers will need more skills, often those not taught in schools. Language minority individuals are most affected by these changes. The situation has brought a new political focus on the role of vocational…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Educational Trends, Federal Legislation, Job Skills
Pheasant, Marilyn – OSSC Bulletin, 1985
This bulletin describes a first-grade "readiness program" developed at the Aumsville (Oregon) School District to help children who have been found to be at risk in a standard first-grade program. These students attend a readiness first grade designed to assist their development emotionally, socially, physically, and academically and only…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Grade 1, High Risk Students
Jensen, Mary Cihak – OSSC Bulletin, 1985
Partnerships between schools and businesses are becoming more frequent and more reciprocal as the two find common interests; the Salem-Keizer (Oregon) Public Schools provide a nationally recognized example of such a partnership. Salem's program began in 1981 with a joint school board and Chamber of Commerce policy statement. Despite economic…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Educational Cooperation

Crandall, Jo Ann – 1979
This survey of vocational English as a second language (ESL) for adult learners covers the following areas: (1) language content (pronunciation, structure, vocabulary, style and conversational strategies, literacy training, motivation); (2) program design, including a variety of program models; and (3) materials development (needs assessment,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Course Content
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