The focus of this supplement is the preparation of specialized educational personnel in the following areas--educational audiologist, principal, reading specialist, school business official, school counselor, school psychologist, speech language pathologist, superintendent, and supervisor of instruction. Program objectives are outlined and are…

This thesaurus is designed to provide the vocational education community and its relevant audiences with a comprehensive, organized listing of outcome questions and hypotheses. The first of two sections includes a discussion of the importance as well as problems of attempting to develop a classification system for categorizing vocational outcomes.…

AMONG THE ESSENTIAL PERSONAL QUALITIES REQUIRED OF SUCCESSFUL MANAGERS OR POTENTIAL MANAGERS, A BALANCED TEMPERAMENT AND THE CAPACITY TO SEE THE OTHER PERSON'S POINT OF VIEW SHOULD BE STRESSED. FULLER AND BROADER KNOWLEDGE, GREATER SKILL IN JUDGMENT AND DECISION, AND GREATER MATURITY IN EXERCISING RESPONSIBILITY AND INTERPRETING EXPERIENCE MUST BE…

This pamphlet shows school personnel how to apply successfully for Federal grants to finance improvements in educational programs. Advice is given on the importance of evaluating needs, objectives, and procedures as a prerequisite to writing a proposal. Next, suggestions for writing a good proposal are made, including references to the need for…

To meet the challenge of a growing urban population with more older members and more leisure time, higher adult education must concern itself with values, attitudes, and understanding as opposed to simple skills, facts, and information; and new methods for deriving objectives must be developed. Higher adult education should be liberal adult…

The Nevada State Plan for an adult basic education program provides the legal basis for qualifying for Federal funds under the Adult Education Act of 1966. The State Board of Education will administer the program as an integral part of the State System of Public School Adult and Vocational Education, but other agencies (Federal, State, municipal,…

This paper discusses the Fanon Center's Restoration Model, an "exemplary education" paradigm that seeks to institute a new educational ideology and alternative educational approach based on a "new humanism." The basis of this new humanism is the synthesis of analytic, affective, and sensate ways of discovery and knowing. The model places equal…

This document is an amalgam of three leaflets describing various aspects of the Competence Based Learning Program (CBL) of Alverno College, Milwaukee. The first document, "Historical Development of CBL at Alverno," is a concise history of the movement from the recognition of a need for change in the teacher preparation program in 1969,…

Four elements of the planning by objectives system (purposes, long- and short-term objectives, and planning details) are explained in this manual for people who work with high school or college student volunteer programs which provide experiential learning through community service. Following an introduction on the fundamentals of the system, a…

The booklet explains the selection and use of a system to build career development programs and presents a sample career development program produced by the system. The system provides a framework to build a program and is based on the theory of three levels of learning--perceptual, conceptual, and generalization. The model, or sample system, is…

This booklet represents a summary of a regional conference and is designed to serve as an introductory discussion of the use of the competency based education concept in general undergraduate programs. Emphasis is placed on essential conditions of competency, current factors affecting higher education, the scope and variety in competency-based…

In this model for program planning and evaluation, the State Director of Vocational Education acts as the chief program manager or decision-maker. In addition, a program evaluator manages an information system which provides the decision-maker with a means of assessing the efficacy of the course he has chosen. Elements of the model include…

A proposed plan for environmental education for the State of Oregon, aimed at coordinating existing environmental education programs and implementing new ones, is contained in this document. Five areas of particular concern are emphasized. These include: Program and Curriculum Development, Teacher Training, Educational Facilities, Community…

The document reflects the planning of the Division of Special Education of the Ohio Department of Education for the development of special education programs and services for handicapped children in Ohio in the 1970's. Six major areas at the division planning level are focused upon: long-range goals, assumptions made in order to plan, specific…

The most critical activity in the planning-programing-budgeting system is the specification and employment of goals and objectives. Program goals are the desired outcomes of a program, but program objectives are the changes in, or the creation of, program elements in a specified way to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of a program. Since…