Planning for development in education is a process which requires fundamental changes in the world view, attitudes, knowledge, and skills of people. To satisfy future requirements for educated persons, the education system must be viewed as an instrument for the attainment of human goals, and planning must determine how many persons must learn…

This document describes a 1-year (1972-1973) practicum program which entailed planning, implementing, and evaluating a supervision system of off-campus innovative instruction by parent-teacher teams for 42 gifted elementary school students. Discussed are development and implementation of the following program components: goals, such as teaching…

The first of the document's major components is the report of the Cleveland three-year career development program. Intended to bridge the gap between school and earning a living for students in an urban poverty area, the program begins in elementary school and continues through high school. Eight goals and related performance objectives were…

The Minnesota project proposal outlined four major areas of objectives for improving the quality of family day care homes: (1) training for a home-bound population, (2) child development resource centers, (3) training materials and supportive services, and (4) the Family Day Care Consultant, a new career. Project activities in the first year…

How can children, disadvantaged as well as middle-class, be taught cognitive skills through the medium of television? This is the question Richard Polsky addresses in describing the planning and early development (1966-1968) of the Children's Television Workshop. An examination of the period prior to the public announcement of the project tells…

The manual is one of nine resulting from a project to design planning procedures for local and State vocational education agencies. It describes the overall planning process for LEAs and is to be used in conjunction with the related documents. Planning involves two aspects: making decisions that have long-term consequences and making analyses that…

This is the report of a study conducted to develop a system which would identify the primary elements needed to install career education at the local level, provide insight into attitude changes needed regarding the installation of career education, identify strategies that could be initiated to enhance the installation of career education, and to…

The purpose of this guide is to provide administrators and teachers who work in education programs for migrants with a tool which may be useful in guiding the development and appraisal of such programs. Objectives for migrant education programs and the criteria for program appraisal included in the guide have been developed through the efforts of…

This report presents a model that describes the logical steps that should be implemented to maximize self-renewal in a rapidly changing social environment. The model, which uses a systematic approach to the problems of change and accountability, is designed to assist educators in the continual definition, selection, and implementation of viable…

Activities involved in planning and administering the various types of management training are described in this guidebook. The four types of management training discussed are management courses, conferences, problem clinics, and workshops for prospective small business owners. Financing the training and promotion are discussed, as are planning,…

This pamphlet presents a general description of the systems approach as applied to education, and gives verbal and mathematical model examples of its application in educational administration. The basic aims of the systems approach are to (1) identify major objectives of a program plan, (2) define programs that can effect the planned goals, (3)…

Under the present practices, the objectives and activities of socially oriented projects have rarely been specified with enough clarity and concreteness. Alternatives have been insufficiently presented for consideration by top management. In a number of cases, the future costs of present decisions have not been laid out systematically enough and…

This survey of educational practices in Great Britain is intended to allow a comparative view of the state of modern language instruction as it exists within the country and abroad. Chapters focus on general principles, language selection, grammar and secondary schools, instructional materials, foreign relations, teacher training, and teaching…

In this evaluation of the Title III (Elementary and Secondary Education Act) Northern California PACE Center program, the center's 1969-70 activities in relation to stated objectives were examined through review of objectives and activities in terms of success in meeting performance requirements. The following objectives were deemed to have met or…

This report summarizes the work performed in the project, and introduces the substantive results of the project, which are presented in the form of two separate advocate team reports that propose strategies for a planning and assessment system. The administrative summary consists of five sections: I. Description of Original Proposal and Revised…