Intended for administrators, supervisors, and teachers, the booklet is designed as a source document for developing individualized education programs (IEPs) for handicapped children in Illinois as required by P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act). Section I identifies and defines the following content areas of an IEP:…

This booklet is designed as a support bulletin for Texas'"Framework for the Social Studies, Grades K-12" (ED 044 327). It capsulizes research and writing about meeting individual student needs. Individualized instruction requires that the teacher vary classroom teaching strategies so that students can engage in learning activities that are most…

The document is designed to assist local school systems as they plan, develop, and improve programs for emotionally handicapped students. Sections cover the following areas: definition of emotionally handicapped students; pre-planninq for emotionally handicapped programs; identification, referral, screening, assessment, and placement; service…

The manual is designed to be used with a basic one-week training program for adult education personnel. It is not intended to guide teachers toward modifying existing programs, piloting new programs, or institutionalizing a new idea. It was designed to help teachers identify the purpose of the typical adult student, to give specific information to…

To design, develop, and implement an organizational structure for inservice teacher education and provide a continuing program for inservice leadership training in the Northern Appalachia Region for education in the technologies, a teacher educator program was established for training teachers as change agents within a comprehensive "teacher…

Designed for use by teachers, coordinators, and consultants from occupational education and special education programs, the inservice resource guide presents a system for developing and managing instruction for secondary level special needs learners (students traditionally identified as handicapped or disadvantaged). Included are seven modules,…

The HEW 309(b) Special Project carried out by the Niagara Falls Adult Basic Education program, "The Identification of Preferred Cognitive Styles and Matching Adult Reading Program Alternatives for the 0-4 Grade Levels," involved research, training in cognitive style mapping, and development of a survey and process to assess the adult…

Provided is a manual compiled by the Southwest Regional Resource Center identifying and articulating the process steps required to establish services for severely handicapped children in a public school setting. Offered are seven planning elements (population baseline, appraisal resources, schools and physical facility resources, transportation,…

One of a series devoted to career education in transportation, this guide, which is intended for use by teachers in grades 9-10, presents a program for the exploration of existing and emerging careers in transportation. Section I gives an introduction to career education and its four progressive phases: career awareness, orientation, exploration,…

One in a series devoted to transportation career education, this guide which is intended for use by teachers in grades 11 and 12, presents a program to prepare students for careers in transportation. Section I gives an introduction to career education and its four phases: career awareness, orientation, exploration, and preparation. Section II…

This manual on independent learning centers (ILC) includes eleven chapters intended to provide assistance and resource materials to any institution or individual developing an ILC. The chapters each cover one of the following topics: learning center model; Hawkeye Institute of Technology's (HIT) Independent Learning Center; the ILC student from…

Suggestions to facilitate the reentry of the disabled student into the regular classroom are offered, and information on resource materials is presented. A chart lists mainstreaming materials for the normal child, children's books about handicaps, and teacher resource materials, along with the publishers' addresses, type of handicap, type of…

The project reported here was done to provide vocational teacher educators in Colorado with an off-campus delivery system for an introductory inservice or preservice course in cooperative education and coordinating techniques. Following a brief project summary, the remainder of this report is comprised of appendixes. The first four of five…

This compilation of training objectives was designed to assist in developing needs assessments and in designing inservice training programs for teachers of handicapped children. Documents on competencies were collected from the National Inservice Network (NIN) training programs for regular education personnel and from the Dean's Grant Network at…