Six graduate students responsible for the creation of a peer-counseling walk-in clinic discuss the training techniques used for peer counselors at UCLA. A psychology course featuring didactic and informational lectures, small laboratory sessions, and personal growth groups was instrumental in generating three basic attributes in the peer…

Planning methodology should concentrate first on outcomes before emphasizing inputs and processes. In developing a plan for planning for a State community college system, such questions as these must be answered: why plan? who plans? what is to be included in the planning? what is the time frame for planning? Five general processes, each a…

This report explores the need for cost-benefit analysis in non-traditional education for the disadvantaged and presents practical suggestions and steps needed to carry out an effective analysis, based upon the experiences in the Community College of Vermont. Steps in such an anslysis include: (1) understand the informational needs of the various…

This paper presents a planned, goal oriented, skill building, in-service training program that is based on district goals. The participants are professionals, chosen by local school districts, who train teachers, aides, parents, and volunteers in the use of the Primary Education Project/Individually Prescribed Instruction systems. The report…

Three documents are presented that deal with planning for the community college system in Vermont. "Central Vermont Regional Site Planning" discusses the populations to be served, geographic location, program emphasis, and interagency linkages. Goals, operational responsibilities, action steps, evaluation, staff responsibilities, and a…

This publication is one of four parts of the Project Continuing Education for Health Manpower performed by Syracuse University for the Regional Medical Programs Service. Continuing education is defined as systematic efforts to acquire, maintain, and develop the abilities, skills, knowledge, and attitudes of persons already engaged in providing…

The document is a continuation of CE000452. Five monographic chapters are presented there. The concluding five monographic chapters of this publication concern the health care practitioner as instructor by Hilliard Jason; an approach to a rational scheme for financing continuing education for health manpower by Leon M. Lessinger; the use of…

Implementation of the Integrated Career Development Curriculum (ICDC) in Meeker, Colorado schools is described in this report. The main section of the report contains a historical description of implementation, a description of obstacles, a description of successes, and recommendations for improved implementation. Attachments contain a report on…

The purchase of a Mobile Training Unit (MTU) allowed the Indiana Career Resource Center to disseminate Career Education materials throughout the State. This report presents the effects of that Mobile Unit Program. During the months between July, 1972 and May, 1973, the MTU made more than 67 visitations to Indiana schools and was used in a dozen…

Career Education poses a challenge for in-service education and requires management decision making from all the discipline areas and teaching levels. The major theme of this paper is that sound planning and management of a systematic in-service delivery system is basic to implementing career education. A planning format is presented for use in…

This volume concerns a procedure for setting the districtwide goals and objectives to be used in planning STEP (System for Trenton's Educational Planning.) The report contains the analysis of a Trenton community opinion survey conducted in March-April of 1971. One vital element of the analysis is the development of "indicators of…

Presented are development and evaluation of a school's 3-year program using closed circuit television (CCTV) with emotionally disturbed children, aged 6 to 13 years. The major program objective is to help the children develop skills and knowledge necessary for their continued participation in school through the 12th grade. The school has five…

The program, Man in the Marine Environment, conducted by the Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University, between July, 1970 and June, 1971, consisted of two major components: (1) research, and (2) direct educational outputs in the form of a series of credit seminars and a public speaker's program. Research, as described in the procedures…

Designed to be used with "A Guide for Cooperative Vocational Education" (ED 037 564), this resource manual summarizes selected facts and suggestions to help state staffs in developing and planning cooperative vocational education programs. Sections are: (1) an introductory section describing cooperative vocational education, (2)…

This summarizes a more detailed report "Compensatory Education in Massachusetts: An Evaluation with Recommendations." The first part outlines four critical courses of action which will strengthen compensatory education: (1) establish appropriate program objectives; (2) establish sound evaluation components in all Title I projects; (3) establish…