Suggestions for the successful implementation of a needs analysis for faculty/staff development are presented, based upon the experiences of a consortium of four South Carolina technical colleges. The report first defines a needs assessment as a process to determine the difference between what exists and what is needed, and then presents a…

Designed to systematically assist local districts to delineate, organize, plan, and implement career education programs, this planning guide presents a twelve-part task analysis. The twelve task analysis sheets are designed to suggest methods and techniques for local school districts of use in achieving twelve goals established by the Nebraska…

This summary of the presentation given at four Head Start Regional Bilingual/Multicultural Conferences consists of materials related to the Head Start Strategy for Spanish-speaking Children. Keynote addresses focus on Head Start policy implications, the future of Head Start in the 1980s, and the relation of bilingual/bicultural programs to the…

The purpose of this project has been to develop an information base about successful desegregation/integration strategies for use in developing a set of models and guidelines to aid schools in planning staff development activities. Part of the development of the data base included interviews with administrators, teachers, students, and parents,…

This workshop package is designed to assist those persons responsible for the implementation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the attainment of sex equity in elementary and secondary school settings. The objectives of this first workshop session include providing participants with: (1) an opportunity to assess personal awareness…

This is the second of three volumes that constitute the final evaluation report of Project STAR (State Technical Assistance Resources), an undertaking of the Maryland State Department of Education designed to help 36 elementary schools improve their reading programs. This volume is divided into five parts. The first part contains a discussion of…

School people are accustomed to researchers soliciting their participation in studies; and they feel, with some justification, that these studies end up rewarding the researchers and not the subjects. We tackled this problem by designing a study where each teacher was the researcher and the object of study was her own teaching. This approach gave…

This report describes a proposed magnet vocational program for 11th and 12th graders which is intended to reduce minority student isolation and facilitate desegregation in the Cleveland Public Schools. The need for such a program, its basic characteristics and multicultural aspects, its potential impact on participating students and the community,…

The session outline and accompanying participant materials in this guide comprise one component of a multicomponent workshop developed to help implement Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, written to attain sex equity in schools. The guide includes an overview of the workshop package which consists of five three-hour sessions: three…

Educational policies and programs in overseas universities of developing nations are explored in a series of nine articles. In "Development and the Role of the Humanities," Sir Cyril Philips calls for a reconsideration of the role of the humanities in the educational policies of developing nations and international aid-giving agencies.…

This publication responds to a paper by Judith Stecher which strongly urges that a law related/humanities curriculum be included at the elementary school level. Currently most elementary teachers are concentrating their efforts on just two skills--reading and computing. A recent study of elementary schools in the northern counties of California,…

A description is given of a model designed to assess teachers' concerns and personal doubts as they participate in programs to implement educational innovations. The model is intended to be used diagnostically in order that those responsible for inservice programs can provide appropriate support for individual teachers engaged in a change effort.…

The development of a comprehensive set of instructor training materials for competency based vocational education is described. These validated modules and supportive materials are on the following topics: 1) program planning, development, and evaluation; 2) instructional planning; 3) instructional execution; 4) instructional evaluation; 5)…

This information analysis paper reviews the literature on career development programs and practices, identified by a computer search of the ERIC data base from November 1966 through December 1979. The introduction highlights issues and trends: the infusion of career development concepts into curriculums; evaluations of programs in career guidance…

Teachers need to improve certain teaching and writing competencies if they are to improve student writing competencies. Teachers from the Atlanta school district were surveyed to determine their opinions for improving writing instruction. Survey results indicate that teacher education programs can be improved by: (1) making information on writing…