New Mexico State University has operated an experimental field training program preparing senior students to serve as members of family home health teams. The author assesses the way in which the program has worked and reports on the program's evaluations by students and families. (Author/BP)

This paper presents a proposal for an alternative principal-certification program, which is to be operated by Tarleton State University (Texas) in collaboration with 10 independent Texas school districts, 4 regional educational service centers, 2 professional associations, and 1 foundation. The New Century Educational Leadership Program (NCELP) is…

This study was conducted to learn how a new "experience" component in education foundations' core course work would be evaluated by teacher-trainees and their critic teachers, who were experienced classroom teachers. Project subjects were 186 men and women (84 senior students in a required Foundations of Education senior level core course, and 102…

As part of Scarborough's (Ontario) Co-operative Evaluation and Development of School Systems (CEDSS) project, an evaluation was conducted of the Board of Education's cooperative education program, which involved in-school instruction with on-the-job experience. The evaluation, which involved surveys of cooperative education students, a control…

A common weakness characteristic of many instructional programs is that little advance planning is devoted to evaluation. The first stage of formulating and operationalizing an evaluation plan for the Iowa-Undergraduate Pre-Service Science Teacher Education Program (Iowa-UPSTEP) was to locate two external evaluators possessing experience and…

Following a brief overview on the program and grant proposal process, this paper describes the design and implementation of the Aging and Mental Health Certification Program at Madonna College in Livonia, Michigan. The project goals (to design a program, to prepare 120 trainees, to meet community and trainee needs) and accomplishment of the goals…

A two-year pilot study evaluated a curriculum innovation at one rural and one urban high school in Maryland. Called the Community-Based Learning and Service (CBLS) Program, the innovation involved placing large numbers of students during part of the school day with community sponsors where they could learn about and provide community services as…

Students at Indiana University preparing to become elementary teachers were offered the option of participating in a Block Program as an alternative to the customary Early Childhood Program. Block is a professional semester for students at the end of their junior or beginning of their senior year. The characteristics of this program are: (1) team…

The New York State Guidance Center for Women in Suffern, New York provides individual counseling and vocational and educational information. During the months covered by this report, the Center cosponsored a conference on continuing education for women in the two-year colleges of the State University, began a second series of career information…

The Youth and Community Services Program was designed for the education of human services professionals and paraprofessionals. Two parallel programs were implemented in 1973--a two-year program at Staten Island Community College and a four-year program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. At Staten Island, the curriculum involved…

This document examines the following four teacher center pilots in the National Teacher Center Program: the Bay Area Learning Center in northern California, the Rhode Island Teacher Center in Providence, the Texas Center for the Improvement of Educational Systems in Austin, and the Center for Educational Advancement located in Washington, D.C.…

This study describes and evaluates the first year of a 2-year masters degree urban teacher education program. The first year consists of four separate components, each of which is evaluated separately on the basis of previously stated objectives. The first component, Community Orientation and Study, involves a 6-week living experience in the inner…

University training programs for Peace Corps Volunteers have not been successful, due to the lack of definite prescriptions by the Peace Corps and of creative programing by the universities; but Samoa I, II, and III, run by the University of Hawaii, have developed a new approach which seems successful. Samoa I, based on Area Studies and Language…

Focusing on the need to give aspiring teachers practical "hands-on" experience in vocational agriculture, the planning, supervision, and evaluation of a summer work experience program for vocational agriculture teachers in Pennsylvania ("Philadelphia Workshop") is described. (BM)