The first part of this workbook reviews and advocates articulation between high school cooperative education programs and vocational programs in higher education. It begins by defining some of the most common terms used to describe articulation, such as "tech prep" and "2+2", and for the implementation of articulation…

Advances in satellite technology hold great promise for offering a broad and varied curriculum in small rural schools. In 1985 and 1986 three vendors in the continental United States pioneered the offering of interactive satellite instruction for high school credit courses. The programs were: (1) German by Satellite offered by the College of Arts…

Intermountain Community Learning and Information Centers are the result of work begun in 1977 by Utah State University and are based on use of rural libraries in a new information and education function. Support from the Western Rural Development Center permitted the Cooperative Extension Services, state libraries, and continuing educators from…

A description is given of a cooperative teacher education program formed between a university and the public schools to provide substitute teaching service to the schools while the teacher-training programs at the university would be re-modeled to include substitute teaching as a training component. Graduate students who have completed a…

A recent inquiry into training needs in curriculum development and educational technology in further and higher education is documented. This book describes a research project begun in 1973 at Sussex University, which identified instructional and individual procedures, problems, and requirements in training and weighed them against current…

THIS REVIEW OF CURRENT LITERATURE ON INSERVICE EDUCATION COVERS 184 ITEMS RANGING FROM NEWSPAPER ARTICLES THROUGH JOURNALS TO BOOKS AND FUGITIVE MATERIALS DURING THE 1950 - 1967 PERIOD. RESEARCH IS DISCUSSED IN TERMS OF THE SOCIAL SETTING IN WHICH THE SCHOOL IS PLACED AND THE SETTING THE SCHOOL PRODUCES. THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TEACHER AND SCHOOL…

The collaborative innovation described in this paper, the use of cooperating teachers in instructing methods courses, is an integral part of a thorough revision of the student teaching program in secondary social studies at the University of Alberta. This innovation was the response to multiple problems with the student teaching program.…

Eight new approaches to collegiate general education are described. In an introductory overview article, "Toward the Reconstruction of General Education," Jerry Gaff, director of a project on general education models, provides specific suggestions for institutional renewal, such as the formation of a task force, composed of faculty,…

This testimony summarizes the results of the Rand Corporation's change agent study of educational innovations funded by federal programs. The second section consists of policy recommendations for ESEA Title IV Consolidated Programs, Part C. The study aimed to help improve federal policies by describing how the process of innovation and educational…

This book attempts to present, in a simple, straightforward way, the basic principles involved in initiating and developing an individualized foreign language program. The underlying assumption is that individualized instruction has become bogged down by an image of menacing complexity, whereas, in reality, it need not be so. The book builds the…

Objectives of a project conducted by the New Hampshire Educational Facilitator Center were (1) to assist the vocational education community in becoming more aware of model programs available in the National Diffusion Network (NDN); (2) to make the adaptation and replication of existing proven models a viable means of program improvement in…

The minicourse in foreign language teaching is an outgrowth of the diversified curriculum that is based on the personal-benefit theory. The importance of the individual and the need for a differentiated program designed to foster individual interests and maximize individual potential is stressed in this theory. The rapid growth of alternative…

Educational research and development (educational R&D), more recently called educational knowledge production and utilization, has become a prominent feature of the educational scene with many of its salient characteristics having taken shape during the last ten years. The federal role in educational R&D began in 1867 with the formation of the…

"Insights" presents the texts of the major addresses, panel reactions, and proceedings of the first State-wide conference on consumer and home-making education, entitled "The Challenge of Change." A theme that emerged was the need for greater cooperation between classroom and community in teaching students not only about the…

This final report of the Career Options Research and Development (CORD) Project reviews the original assumptions, objectives, problems, and opportunities related to training the poor for employment in the human services areas. Specific objectives of Project CORD were: (1) to test the validity and reliability of the social mobility theory, (2) to…