In December, 1977, a conference was held to bring an awareness of various problems in school desegregation to teacher, community and school district leaders in the Los Angeles area. At the conference, a business community network formed and implemented by the Council for Peace and Equality was described. School integration in Pasadena, San…

Professional development of faculty is a more inclusive term than "faculty development," since it connotes concern for improving the conditions of student learning, awareness of changes in the role of the teacher and involvement with the health of the institution. The idea of professional development generates responses along a…

Conducted to determine priority areas for program improvement activities in Alabama's vocational education system, the specific objectives of this study were to develop a list of areas that are in need of vocational education research and that should be addressed through exemplary programs; develop a list of needs for curriculum development…

The Title I Great Cities Training Programs were desiqned to provide school paraprofessional personnel in Detroit, Michigan, with the knowledge, skills and techniques that will lead to higher levels of achievement among the Title I target student population. This evaluation report provides a description of program structure, training curricula, and…

A dual workshop/questionnaire approach was used in a needs assessment of adult basic education (ABE) students conducted in Prince George's County, Maryland, in spring 1980. The workshop advanced and clarified the concept of career development to teaching and administrative staff. Participants completed a needs assessment questionnaire according to…

The document contains 10 papers on assessment in the career development of the handicapped, and is one of three volumes of selected papers presented at a November 1981, international conference on the career development of handicapped individuals. Part I contains four papers presented in a special session on assessment issues, and Part 2 contains…

Intended to provide school principals and administrators with suggestions for leading a schoolwide writing improvement effort, this book describes the writing process and addresses the kinds of considerations of which administrators should be aware. Chapters in the book discuss (1) the composing process and the teaching of writing, (2) evaluating…

Assembled in a loose leaf notebook, this collection of independent on-the-job activities is designed to facilitate employee development and intended to help improve an organization's performance appraisal system. The on-the-job development activities described derive from job descriptions, performance appraisal forms, and discussions with job…

Upon completion of this learning unit on children with special needs, Child Development Associate (CDA) trainees should be able to advance children's physical and intellectual competencies, build children's positive self-concepts and individual strengths, promote positive functioning of children and adults in group settings, bring about…

A long-term plan to improve the training of teachers was formulated in the fifteenth Congress of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. The concept behind this new plan emphasizes equal proportions of qualities desired of teachers, including some ideological, political, moral, and psychological components. There has been a shift in the role of…

A report is given of a comprehensive review of research on inservice education. The review process began with 6,000 abstracts and references. About 150 of the documents reported some quantitative findings. Fifty-nine studies met topic criteria and also had statistics which could be synthesized. These studies were sorted into four categories of…

This document contains a computer search of ERIC database on the topic of sex equity in guidance and counseling and a narrative which highlights documents, identifies issues and trends, and suggests implications for guidance professionals. The impact of sex stereotyping, double standards of health, the increased social awareness of sex bias and…

The second year progress report provides information on a program to provide early intervention for high risk infants and their adolescent mothers at the National Children's Center, Washington, D.C., which provided two infant stimulation classes 5 days per week for 15 handicapped children (6 to 36 months). Program accomplishments are reported in…

Since training is an integral and intrinsic component of the college union program and operation, this manual is designed for use by college union and student activities programmers. A section on the training concept and design gives a brief introduction then discusses an approach to planning a training program, seminar planning and development,…

This monograph is one in a series designed to report, in narrative form, discussions that took place during a series of mini-conferences for local K-12 career education coordinators on the subject of staff development in career education. The monograph covers two broad concerns: the substance of staff development in career education; and how staff…