Designed to be of value to supervisors, office managers, and executives, this book gives a broad introductory background to the functions of selection, training, and supervision of office personnel. Under recruitment and selection, it covers sources of future employees, use of the application blank, testing, checking references, and interviewing.…

This report is an attempt to explore approaches in which white people examine their own racism, understand its nature and its consequences, and then plan self-directed changes in the direction of increasingly anti-racist behavior. In the pilot study described and evaluated in the report, three general purposes indicated were: assisting…

Provides a critical review of recent research in metacognition and presents recommendations for assessing and improving metacognitive skills in trainees. Topics discussed include self-regulatory skills; training methods for problem solving; attention allocation; transfer of training; and cognitive-based techniques for task analysis and…

The design and implementation of successful international teaching assistant (ITA) training curricula require careful simultaneous attention to intertwining theoretical and practical questions encompassing abilities of successful ITAs, correlates of successful teaching, acquisition of discourse skills, and program marketing and operational issues.…

A statewide staff mentoring program was developed in Illinois as an option for providing a personalized, intensive approach to training early intervention personnel on a large scale. Evaluation results for the initial period of developing the process and for the first eight trainer-trainee dyads suggest this approach is individualized,…

Small rural schools incur greater expense and hardship to take advantage of staff development activities, usually held in cities or universities. The Iowa Intervention Initiative (III) overcame practical and logistic problems to hold teacher workshops for 79 small rural Iowa schools. Discusses III goals, recruitment of participants, selection and…

The principles and techniques useful in designing a phonological awareness training program for children at risk for reading disabilities are discussed. The paper asserts that speech-language pathologists have the training, clinical expertise, and opportunity to play an integral role in such programs. (Author/JDD)

Describes the training strategy developed by the Community Based Rehabilitation Programme in Guyana. The strategy has three components: the identification of training needs of families and support workers, the production of video-based training packages on specific topics, and the utilization of available personnel to act as local tutors.…

A recent model for the design of staff development programs for educators includes 5 stages--readiness, planning, training, implementation, and maintenance--each of which is defined by a set of 4 to 11 practices. To test this model and the relative merits of its 38 practices and its underlying assumptions, a national questionnaire survey of over…

The report presents evaluation data on the Cross-Program Training Project to train foster parents, teachers, and social workers who are jointly responsible for the care of special needs children, especially preschoolers. The project featured five major components: (1) site development, (2) training needs assessment on which to develop programing,…

THIS INSTITUTE, SPONSORED BY THE UNITED COMMUNITY SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN BOSTON, THE MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION ON AGING, AND THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY COUNCIL OF GERONTOLOGY, FOCUSED ON RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING OF TRAINERS WHO COULD BE AVAILABLE TO AGENCIES AND INSTITUTIONS FOR TRAINING PERSONNEL WORKING WITH THE AGING. ONE CONFERENCE PAPER DISCUSSED…

This resource book, which provides a sampling of programs developed by the Youth Advocacy Projects of the Teacher Corps on behalf of troubled youth, is organized ln tbree major sections. Section I presents outlines, resources, and critiques of staff development courses, organized according to target youth group(s) and by subject area. Section II…

This booklet sets out the recommendations for the training of clerks in firms within the scope of the Engineering Industry Training Board and is written for the use of managers, training officers and clerical supervisors. Recommendations are primarily for new entrants to clerical jobs. They cover the areas of: induction; basic training--including…

The first University of Maryland two week residential police instructor seminar on training (PIST)--a pilot project--was held during May 5-11 and May 26 through June 1, 1968; the second, incorporating changes arising from evaluation of the pilot project, was held April 27 through May 3 and May 25-29, 1969. Participants in the two programs numbered…

A 96 hour course on the management of training was developed and evaluated for presentation to Advanced Army Officer Course (AOAC) classes. General procedures consisted of construction based on job task statements, a systems engineering approach to training, a state of the art technology, repeated presentation of course materials, and modification…