FUTURE EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH PLANNED BY THE FAR WEST LABORATORY FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS REPORT. ONE OF THE PROJECTS CONCERNED INSERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION. THE FOUR MAJOR AREAS OF EMPHASIS IN THIS PROJECT WERE BASIC TEACHING TECHNIQUES, TEACHING IN NEW PROGRAMS, TEACHING NON TYPICAL GROUPS, AND TEACHING NEW…

IN A DISCUSSION OF THE RICHMOND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEMONSTRATION PROJECT FOR TRAINING SUBPROFESSIONALS, THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES OF THE PROJECT ARE DISCUSSED--(1) RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION OF PERSONNEL, AND (2) BASIC, INSERVICE, AND OTHER TRAINING PROCEDURES. THE PROJECT TRAINS LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS FOR SUBPROFESSIONAL JOBS IN THE POLICE…

One of a series of annotated bibliographies on aspects of reading as reflected in the ERIC/CRIER data base, Methods of Reading Instruction is designed to provide teachers, researchers, administrators, and reading specialists with an extensive list of references on reading methodology which have been reported from 1959-70. Each of these audiences…

This document reports on the design, purpose, implementation, and outcomes of a policy forum entitled "Inclusion and the Role of Special Education in Restructuring: Focus on Language Minority Students" held in September 1994. Participants included representatives from the research and public school communities as well as from relevant offices of…

This guide, based on the Texas Education Agency's "essential elements," presents a model for providing differentiated instruction for gifted high school students in any area of content and within any educational setting. The guide provides strategies for changing the following dimensions of the curriculum: (1) content or subject matter,…

The paper describes an innovative treatment approach to severe learning disabilities in use in St. Gallen, Switzerland. The multisensory approach is based on the assumption that learning disabled children have perceptual cognitive deficits. Reality based problem-solvng events connected with tactile-kinesthetic input become the primary foci of…

This handbook for personnel directors is designed to help improve the acquisition, selection, development, welfare, and general administration and control of business and industrial employees. Overall objectives and functions of personnel management are considered first. Part 2 (Employment) stresses advance planning; recruiting and interviewing;…

The purpose of the publication is to disseminate, in circles directly concerned with the theory and practice of functional literacy training, the fundamental principles and essential pedagogical methods yielded by the pursuit of Unesco's Experimental World Literacy Program. The guide is an attempted synthesis of the many and various experiments…

The intention of this handbook is to report on the present situation in the international discussion on peace education and to make further development of this field possible in the peace movement. The first of the three sections contains papers which are contributions on preconditions for and the foundations of peace education, along with…

This paper reports research on three innovations addressing teachers' adoption of effective instructional interventions: (1) an adoption/administrative model for promoting the use of measurably superior instructional practices; (2) a computer program providing expert implementation advice to individual teachers; and (3) a schoolwide strategy for…

Experience in teaching handicapped students at Cheliabinsk State University shows that the effectiveness of the work depends on how fully the systemic approach is realized in it. In this article, the author traces the history of the development of the system from its formation. The author discusses the different systems for teaching, from using a…

The Citizenship Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), aims to identify, measure and evaluate the extent to which effective practice in citizenship education develops in schools. The study began in 2001 and will conclude in…

AN INSTITUTE TRAINING PROGRAM WAS DEVELOPED TO AID IN TEACHING METHODS AND CURRICULUMS DEVELOPMENT IN BUSINESS DATA PROCESSING. THIS PROGRAM OFFERED RETRAINING FOR 17 TEACHERS DURING AN 8-WEEK PERIOD. FURTHER DEVELOPMENT WAS INCLUDED FOR COURSE MATERIAL TO USE AS PATTERNS AND GUIDELINES FOR FUTURE PROGRAMS. CLASS OUTLINES WERE DEVELOPED TO BE USED…

This volume of materials on Hebrew and Arabic books and articles selected during the period of April through July 1971 is part of a collection of volumes comprising annotated bibliographies written in English including author and publishers indices for each abstract. The volume is divided into several sections: 1) Statistics, 2) The Educational…

Sociological implications suggested by the growing national trend of individualized foreign language instruction in American schools are explored in the introductory remarks of this final report of a workshop held at West Chester State College, Pennsylvania. The rationale, structure, and daily schedule of the workshop, and a paper by Valerie M.…