This booklet provides guidelines for updating secondary school trade and industrial education teachers in the technologies of their teaching areas. The first part of the guide gives suggestions for organizing a staff development program. Next, specific programs that might be used are described, including the following: work experience internships;…

This paper focuses on the philosophical implications of assessment methodologies by describing problems that occurred during internship programs for school administrators in Louisiana. A state conference internship's guidelines lacked a formalized learning contract for participants. At the time, more teachers sought access to administrative…

Student experiences in an exchange program linking the University of Hawaii and the Graduate School of Business in Lyon, France illustrate the positive impact of foreign internships. The students were enrolled in internship programs in travel industry management. The reports written by the students reveal that the experiences have affected the…

A sourcebook of curriculum and teaching materials pertaining to primary prevention in mental health and social work is presented. Contents include: two articles addressing the theoretical dimensions of primary prevention and the relationship to social work education and practice; five articles describing preventive content that can be integrated…

Issues of university independence versus the responsibilities entailed in full acceptance of its cultural, social, and economic role are discussed. To define the university's environment, the concept of service is critically examined, and implicit strategies for the development of relations between the university and the community are identified.…

Information is presented on internships in the Washington, D.C., area that enable students to explore the effects of technology and science on society. Science and engineering student interns work in nonlaboratory environments, and nontechnical students may work in issue areas and newly emerging public policy challenges. The directory includes…

This guide is designed for college students who are involved in college-sponsored, off campus work experience programs, to help them meaningfully integrate these experiences into their ongoing educational programs. It would also be useful to anyone entering their first working situation. Basic steps which are outlined include selecting and…

The Women's Management Development Project (WMDP)--initiated at Goucher College in 1977 to provide job reentry opportunities at the professional or management level to college-educated women in the Baltimore, Maryland, area--is described. The program involves a 6-month course of cognitive and experiential training, combined with individual and…

This three-part manual was designed to assist students at Sinclair Community College in earning credit for job-related internships. To help students locate and secure internship positions, Part I provides: (1) an interpretation of the Strong Campbell Interest Inventory; (2) an exercise requiring students to delineate the duties, responsibilities,…

Designed to assist administrators, teachers, and counselors with the development, implementation, and administration of a student internship program, this administrative handbook begins with a program description of an internship program in Montgomery County, Maryland, in which students are released from school for part of the day or part of the…

The revised annotated bibliography contains abstracts of 345 documents published between January 1960 and March 1968 on specific instructional methods and techniques for groups and individuals. Among methods included are: job instruction, apprenticeship, demonstration, coaching, internship, correspondence and independent study, programed…

Concerned with speech and hearing services, the handbook provides guidelines, policies, or information on the following subjects: a calendar for the school year; dates of reports due; names and addresses of speech therapists; schools served and administrative personnel connected with them; screening procedures; survey reports; case loads; the…

The Arkansas Vocational Education Leadership Development Extern Program was designed to prepare vocational education coordinators, directors, and other supervisory personnel for positions as leaders of vocational education within the state, specifically for the secondary grades in local school districts. An innovative, sequentially structured…

Nontraditional strategies for graduate student recruitment, training, and placement were developed to meet speech-language personnel shortages in northern Mississippi rural schools and to upgrade the existing services professionally. Candidates provided speech-language services in the project area simultaneously with their graduate training.…

The Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center (the Met) is a unique public high school in Providence, Rhode Island. The Met has no classes, no grades, no tests, and no easy rides. With guidance from adults, each student builds a customized education focused on five learning goals: communication, social reasoning, empirical reasoning,…