The implementation handbook, over two-thirds of which is comprised of appendixes, describes a three-phased career education program in Texas involving 40 gifted and talented high school seniors. Phase I, the Guidance Laboratory Experience, features self-investigation and evaluation, career exploration, resource speakers, isolation of career areas,…

This paper is an overview of a teacher evaluation program developed by two elementary school principals in Ralston, Nebraska. The program's development is traced from its planning stage through implementation. Points of emphasis show how administrators and teachers jointly developed teacher standards of competence and show how this relationship…

AN ANALYSIS OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE OF THE CHAMPAIGN SPECIAL SERVICES PROGRAM OUTLINES THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EDUCATION TO SCHOOL PERSONNEL, COMMUNITY AGENCIES, PARENTS, AND CHILDREN. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPECIAL SERVICES PERSONNEL AND REGULAR SCHOOL PERSONNEL IS SHOWN. THE PROGRAMS FOR EACH EXCEPTIONALITY ARE…

The paper describes a junior high school mentor program for gifted students. Noted among responsibilities of the coordinating teacher are finding a mentor to guide the student and arranging for the student's classes to be covered while he is away on field trips or in meetings. College students, nonpracticing teachers, hobbyists, and professional…

The author reviews trends in South African special education for learning disabled (LD) students and describes the approach used at a special school for LD students. (CL)

The seven descriptive position papers were prepared after selection for the Multi-National Workshop on Basic and Functional Education for Adults. Those selected are significant innovative programs of adult education in the U. S. which may have direct applicability to improving program practices in various parts of the world. The programs described…

The annotated bibliography on programing for the gifted contains approximately 85 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents published from 1960 to 1973 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). It is explained that…

This program was written by faculty at California State College, Sonoma, and is now in its second semester with 79 students enrolled. Admission requirements are a baccalaureate and a teaching position (paid or volunteer) with young children. Seminars are held in the local communities and coursework assignments are individually arranged to fulfill…

A short description of the availability of Harvard Project Physics course components is given as is a discussion of the growth of the use of Project Physics in schools, including some enrollment data and survey results. Locations of the 1970 and 1971 Summer Institutes are listed. Adaptations of Project Physics course outside the United States are…

In this companion paper to his earlier annotated bibliography of ERIC materials on individualized instruction, the author defines individualized learning as the tailoring of the educational process which takes into account the unique qualities and needs of each individual. He identifies and comments on general trends which seem to be emerging in…

This directory of licensed preschool programs in the greater Springfield, Massachusetts, area was compiled from responses to a questionnaire mailed to each program licensed by the city and regional Departments of Public Health. In addition to the address, telephone number, and name of the director, the following information is given for each…

One of the most difficult tasks in program production of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) has been the transformation of an author's ideas into machine-usable form. Thus, an improved authoring language (IAL) to facilitate the transformation of authors' drafts to machine-usable form was conceptualized. IAL was designed so that an instructional…

Volume one of the two-volume report on the operation of the Educational Information Network (EIN) gives the background, development, and results of the EIN project from its inception in July 1968 to December 1971. EIN attempted to promote the sharing of computing resources at colleges, universities, and educational service institutions across the…

Volume two of the two-volume report on the operations of the Educational Information Network (EIN) is made up of a miscellany of the publications of EIN. It includes the draft edition of the Documentation Standards Handbook, various articles, memos, forms, and so forth, presented in strictly chronological order. EIN was designed to coordinate the…

This report describes the content of an educational program for family day care mothers based on the results of a year-long collaborative effort of 24 low-income licensed day care mothers and the staff of the Educational Day Care Consultation Program at the University of Michigan. The Project staff, program structure, group meetings, individual…