This booklet suggests ways in which institutions--Catholic schools in particular--can move beyond public relations and advertising to engage in the broader arena of marketing with its focus on consumer satisfaction. The first of the book's three chapters reviews the concept of marketing, providing definitions of key terms, clarification of…

The study examines the status of behavioral management services for disabled persons in Alberta, Canada, and offers recommendations regarding alternative service delivery models for the Northwest Region of Alberta. Existing systems are addressed in terms of centralized service models, outreach service models, and combined residential and outreach…

The paper describes a computer bulletin board program operated by physically handicapped high school students. Through the bulletin board system, resource people have been contacted, students' written communication and interpersonal relationships have been strengthened, and professional contact has been strengthened. Administrative implications…

Intended for use by education, health, and child care specialists, the manual describes the development of an interdisciplinary community-based screening program for infants and toddlers. Part I examines four basic planning considerations: needs assessment, personnel, instrumentation, and parents' needs. Part II focuses on aspects of program…

In this presentation a faculty member at Salem College, shares problems and advantages in the teacher induction program in North Carolina. Revised standards and guidelines for the preparation of educational personnel were adopted by the state in 1983 to establish quality assurance for teachers and administrators in North Carolina. New policies…

Designed as an effort to gather, package, and disseminate useful programmatic information on aging education, this publication is divided into seven substantive sections. Following a preface and acknowledgements, an introduction presents a model of intergenerational programming, a definition of an intergenerational activities committe, purposes of…

The Pre-Professional Laboratory Experience course is a semester-long early field experience involving prospective teacher education candidates in routine classroom activities and observation experiences on the elementary and secondary level. The set of handbooks which was developed to accompany the course includes a student handbook, a supervising…

The information in this report is based on the experiences of Cornell University and the University of South Carolina in responding to the needs of gay students in their residence halls. A starter kit on developing gay issue programming for other campuses is presented which includes a Gay Programming Checklist and a description of a sample…

This guide is designed to serve as a resource for secondary and postsecondary occupational educators who are interested in initiating or expanding articulation agreements. It is designed in an informal question and answer format with content based on results of a research project which collected information through interviews with secondary and…

Using Madeline Hunter's Clinical Teaching Model as a guide, the Geary County Unified School District (Junction City, Kansas) established a staff development program that increased student achievement, assisted teachers in setting practical goals for the improvement of instruction, served as the impetus for the district's Effective Schools Program,…

As part of an effort to develop a multifaceted agenda for dealing with employment-related child care problems of workers, members of the New York City Chapter of the Coalition of Labor Union Women gathered all the available contract clauses on child care, laid out the categories of problems which often need to be addressed, assembled the known…

The 15 papers in this publication are grouped under three categories: issues in inservice education, intervention strategies, and institutional approaches. The major issues raised are: (1) What are the key issues in inservice education? (2) If some issues are deemed more important than others, who has the right and/or power to decide which, and in…

This handbook is designed to assist educators in establishing a project that uses volunteers as tutors in an adult education program. It is based on the experiences of a model project conducted by the State College Area School using Kiwanis volunteers. A section on recruitment/publicity lists the activities conducted and resulting publicity items.…

The report presents a framework for the application of a curriculum model to computer programs designed for special education students, specifically slow learners and learning disabled students in regular and special education classes. The program content includes selected basic skills instructional components that are transferable to a computer.…

Three premises are basic to Writing Across the Curriculum: (1) when learning involves writing, more learning is achieved; (2) learning to write involves learning to manage and coordinate the component skills of writing within real writing tasks; and (3) through writing, students can learn how to actively touch the content of a class. The role of…