Ending educational inequality requires not only an army of teachers who do whatever it takes to overcome the challenges facing children in low-income communities but also an army of leaders, working both in and outside school, who will change our inequitable system. Teach for America's mission is to help build this force. The organization's…

Report of the first year of a three-year study attempting to understand the processes of Teen Evaluation and Maturation (TEAM) in operational Navy contexts, seeking to document changes occurring when team members learn about their tasks, each other, and the environmental demands of the scenarios of the Naval Gunfire Support (NGFS) Department,…

Goals of a prevocational program for deaf blind students (ages 3 to 21) are outlined. The goals are divided into six levels of developmental skills and range from the Level II (no specific goals have been provided for Level I students) skill, mobility to and from work with minimal assistance, to development of work tolerance to one day (6 hours).…

Pharmacological education is presented as a continuous undertaking of preclinical students, clerks, and physicians and surgeons in training and practice. Goals are listed for the preclinical, clerkship, and residency stages of training, and the various actions which candidates should actually perform at each stage are defined. (Editor/JT)

This compilation of objectives was prepared by 35 industrial education teachers in the state of Michigan. It is indicated that these performance objectives should not be viewed as complete course objectives but rather as a listing of objectives which can be used where appropriate. After an introductory section, providing a general outline of a…

Looking at prevention from the perspective of the psychoeducational skill-training model sharply diminishes the apparent differences between psychologically based treatment and prevention since both are seen strictly as educational processes. The sole important difference is timing, with treatment being delayed and relatively inefficient and…

Rationale, application for training, and implications for practice are presented for a school psychology training approach that is part of a broader Transactional-Ecological Psychology (TEP) Training Program. The TEP provides an innovative and unified approach to training in the areas traditionally called clinical, community, counseling and school…

Offers a framework that addresses training and performance relationships based on in-house skills development committees that are employee driven. Key elements include employee ownership of training; working partnerships between management and employees; continuous learning; and measurement of results that show relationships between classroom…

The curriculum guide deals with prevocational basic skills at the secondary level of vocational education and industrial arts. It addresses the subject in behavioral terms, as prominent components of the career education concept. The objectives presented are designed to be compatible with individualized systems and/or application to small and…

Faculty and residents in a family medicine program rated the degree of importance for a resident to have mastered national performance objectives, regarding the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension. The results indicate that disagreement was widespread. Implications for the use of objectives developed outside a program are discussed.…