This module is the second of a series of three separate, but unified by process, minimodules, all of which are part of a larger set of twelve individualized performance-based modules, each based on a major competency needed by vocational administrators for effectively administering vocational education in local education agencies. The module…

This is the third of four modules on developing a comprehensive program of job placement services in a school setting. The purpose of these modules is to help the placement coordinator plan, implement, and evaluate a program of job placement services to meet student needs. The content area of the four modules are (1) pre-employment, (2) job…

This module on developing student leadership qualities is one of a set of seven on vocational students and is part of a larger series of thirty-four modules constituting a core curriculum intended for use in the professional preparation of vocational educators in the areas of agricultural, business, home economics, and industrial education.…

This module on implementation of change is one of a set of eight on administration and supervision and is part of a larger series of thirty-four modules constituting a core curriculum for use in the professional preparation of vocational educators in the areas of agricultural, business, home economics, and industrial education. Following the…

This module on applying curriculum specifics to vocational education is one of a set of four on stages and structure of curriculum development and is part of a larger series of thirty-four modules comprising a core curriculum intended for use in the professional preparation of vocational educators in the areas of agricultural, business, home…

This module on evaluation procedures for local programs is one of a set of five on evaluation and research and is part of a larger series of thirty-four modules constituting a core curriculum for use in the professional preparation of vocational educators in the areas of agricultural, business, home economics, and industrial education. Following…

This inservice training module is designed to sensitize participants to the prevalence of role sterotyping and the manner in which sterotypes are perpetuated in our social institutions. It is intended for presentation to mixed groups of parents, educators, and community members. It may also be used by high school students. The module consists of…

This instructional package, one of two designed for low reader-educable mentally impaired students, focuses on the vocational area of small engine repair service. (Low readers are identified as those at a reading level of grades 3-6.) Contained in this document are fifty learning modules organized into twelve units: sharpening and grinding mowers;…

The document summarizes a one day training session conducted at the CEGEP (community college) of Hull in the Province of Quebec on June 3, 1974 for 88 professional educators representing 43 different occupational clusters. The purpose of the workshop (and of the document) was to restructure job oriented community college programs towards the…

Neither video technology nor computer technology has had the impact on formal education that many had predicted. Both media have enormous and growing potential for this purpose however. Instructional packages that can be used as supplementary material to teaching seems the most appropriate approach to develop for higher education. Video modules…

This manual is the final report on a two-year project to enhance the effectiveness of teaching assistants. It is designed as a workbook for persons conducting instructional programs for teaching assistants and is specific to teaching assistants in engineering and the natural sciences. The manual contains an introduction and six chapters. Chapter…

This module is designed to provide practice in observing the verbal interaction in a group and to provide an opportunity to participate in a discussion group and receive feedback. Specific activities include the formation of a group of 16-20 people and participation in three exercises; the fishbowl, the fishbowl and reversed roles, and group…

A series of 10 teacher-prepared Learning Activity Packages (LAPs) in advanced algebra and trigonometry, these units cover absolute value, inequalities, exponents, radicals, and complex numbers; functions; higher degree equations and the derivative; the trigonometric functions; graphs and applications of the trigonometric functions; sequences and…

This learning module is designed to provide the prospective teacher of English as second language with a contrastive overview of the syntactic structures of Spanish and English and to enable him to: (a) state the English language patterns that are difficult for a Puerto Rican Spanish-speaker, (b) explain the specific causes for indications of…

This training product was developed for the Teacher Corps and designed for use by the intern to help him or her learn ways of quickly establishing rapport with troubled youth. Specific objectives are: (a) that the intern will be sensitized to the affective nature of the commitment to teaching troubled youth; (b) that the intern will be able to…