The third of three volumes of appendixes to the final technical report of the Great Lakes Region Special Education Instructional Materials Center contains materials related to the final report's chapter on media, materials development, and workshops. Included are the following materials: "Yours for a Better Workshop"--a booklet and…

Project Decision 2 was conceived and designed to assist high school students in making a career decision. To accomplish this, techniques and materials for use in career libraries throughout southwest Wisconsin were developed. The materials developed had special emphasis on agricultural careers for rural Wisconsin residents. An audiovisual tutorial…

Describes the curriculum materials developed by a regional alliance of twelve central states called the Mid-America Vocational Curriculum Consortium, (MAVCC), administered by the Oklahoma State Department of Vocational and Technical Education. Inservice teacher training in the use of the materials is also offered. (MF)

This volume, the first of three produced by a study group of experts from Australia, India, Indonesia, Maldives, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, reviews their experiences in developing distance learning materials. Each country's experience is discussed in the context of problems it faced with special reference to…

A three-week summer institute on educational television for ABE teachers, teacher trainers, administrators, and television production personnel is discussed. Thirty-two participants (11 TV personnel and 21 ABE personnel) from 10 states, two territories, and the District of Columbia attended. Participants were provided with a variety of materials…

Discusses developments which should occur in the Wales region by the end of the Microelectronics Education Programme (1984). Indicates that a major curriculum project has been started to enable developments in information technology to be reflected in classrooms, focusing on the production of software and resource materials. (Author/JN)

The document is the first volume of the final report on an inservice training institute in career education; five teams of K-12 educators from three different school districts in one region of Pennsylvania in the three one-week sessions, which were held at four-week intervals. The goals of the institute were to improve the scope of the…

Beginning in 1978, the Rural Education Program at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory developed materials of the Keys to School Boardsmanship Project for local school boards, including 13 workshop packages and 2 films. A policy board, with members from the five northwest state associations of local school boards, defined topics to be…

Several different provincial agencies in Alberta, Canada, cooperated in initiating a safety education project that was piloted in the County of St. Paul. The project tested the feasibility of integrating safety into the general curriculum; the usefulness of existing safety resources from different agencies; and a diagnostic approach to health…

The overall purpose of the Quitman County Demonstration Project was: (1) to identify, demonstrate, and test effective and innovative procedures for implementing a community based, voluntary program in adult basic education (ABE); (2) to develop and validate new approaches in training the instructional leadership for adult basic education through…

A major goal of Project Green River Opportunities for Work (Project GROW) was to develop materials that could be used by teachers in regional schools to help them implement an articulated, developmental career education program from kindergarten through postsecondary levels. The document consists of a regional history report and description of the…

These case studies highlight the diversity of four tech programs that responded with a unique set of organizational policies and procedures to a unique set of challenges. The case study on City Tech Tech-Prep Consortium in Brooklyn focuses on three strategies: transition to City Tech program, postsecondary component, and program evaluation. The…

A project involving educators and business leaders in southwestern Connecticut was undertaken to develop an intensive, competency-based business course to provide high school students with the skills to fill entry-level administrative support positions. The project was designed to: (1) recruit and motivate students with high potential for success…