The United Nations (UN) proclaimed the years 2005 to 2014 the World Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). As a follow up on the World Decade, the UN launched a Global Action Programme (GAP) that is designed to set the framework for international activities on ESD. The GAP focuses on five priority areas that are of high relevance…

Provides a historical overview of a multidisciplinary training component that has operated at the University of Southern Mississippi since 1979. Shares lessons learned from this experience, such as its impact on students' training and careers, and makes recommendations for the future training of counseling psychologists who seek health-related…

This document describes the Leader Training Program (LTP) component of the Teaching Behavior Improvement Program (TBIP). The LTP was funded under ESEA Title III and was designed to train school-based inservice leaders to implement the TBIP in their districts. The document suggests possible grouping of participants, materials, equipment, physical…

The developmental scheme of the systems approach could be applied effectively to the design of foreign language teacher education. After the performance objectives had been formulated and the learning tasks analyzed and characterized, the design of the system could be undertaken. This would involve--(1) functions and component analyses, (2) the…