Prepared by participants in the 1968 National Defense Education Act Institute on Wood Technology, this syllabus is one of a series of basic outlines designed to aid college level industrial arts instructors in improving and broadening the scope and content of their programs. The guide is divided into three sections, the first of which deals with…

The first dozen years of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Summer Institutes Program, 1954-65 are reviewed. The full report entitled "An Investment in Knowledge" is scheduled for publication in 1969. The forerunner of NSF Summer Institutes was held during July and August of 1954 at the University of Washington. Fifty-three high…

To provide participants with intensive training in programed instruction, to make them more knowledgeable consumers of programed instruction materials, and to develop programming skills on a professional level so that they could apply the systems approach in development of instructional materials, two training institutes were initiated. A total of…

This report describes an attempt to revise and pilot-test an achievement quiz, a background information form, and an attitude inventory considered inadequate when used at the Summer (1968) Institute on Evaluation at the University of Illinois. In the original achievement quiz, most items tested recall or information and few tested the student's…

The book is intended to clarify for school administrators, teachers, parents, and other citizens the meaning and significance of outdoor education in the school curriculum. Social and educational factors influencing the outdoor education program are presented. The discussions are centered around the following: our changing society; education for a…

A follow-up study was made of a 1966 summer retraining program designed to increase the range of teacher competencies in dealing with disadvantaged youth within the classroom and teacher understanding of the concerns of parents of disadvantaged youth as a major means of effecting educational change. The 4-week program involved about 150 teachers…

This report evaluates a Summer Teacher Training Institute in poverty areas in New York City. The program encompassed two distinct types of training: (1) the Reading Institutes, designed to train reading teachers for the elementary and junior high schools in disadvantaged areas, and (2) the Teacher-Training Institute, set up to train both…

Guidelines are given for establishing temporary (summer) speech clinics for areas not regularly serviced for speech therapy. Information is provided concerning possibilities for financing and administering the program, selection of caseload, staff and personnel, suggested equipment, responsibilities of the state department of special education,…

Thirty-six teachers, 17 inexperienced and 19 experienced, were observed systematically (under the Flander's system of interaction analysis) while engaged in teaching migrant children in 3 Michigan elementary schools. The purpose of the study was (1) to evaluate a training program especially devised to prepare teachers of disadvantaged youth and…

The second of a series of five reports of selected literature included in the ERIC system (three of which have been completed), this bibliography carries extensive annotations, and a brief review of program descriptions and evaluations relating to the school dropout. The bibliographical listing is in four sections: state and city reports, programs…

The Summer Study-Skills Program (SSSP) described in this report is sponsored by the Educational Counseling Service of the Board of National Missions, United Presbyterian Church. Under the SSSP, tenth-grade minority youth from small towns or rural areas of the southeastern and southwestern United States who are educationally disadvantaged but are…

A study team for the Delaware Department of Public Instruction sought to discover a rescheduled school year design that could be adopted and used to increase the efficiency of staff and school facilities in Delaware. Through a search of the literature, visits to three school districts, and a conference with a nationally recognized consultant,…

Because of outside pressures, interscholastic debate is currently experiencing a period of criticism and self-examination, a factor which should cause debate directors to seek innovations in their programs. The best opportunities for experimentation are at workshops and summer institutes. One suggestion is that teams be given options in alloting…

A survey of high school speech teachers revealed that the average speech teacher in selected schools has nine or fewer hours of academic credit in speech, does not read speech journals, may belong to a speech organization, and has less than seven years of teaching experience. This evidence shows a need for teacher workshops and summer institutes…

A guide used by inservice teachers and agency caseworkers in three 2-week summer institutions (1973) for teaching visually handicapped children and adults how to read with the Optacon, a portable optical-to-tactile-converter, is presented. The institutes are said to have been of a two-year special education pilot project to demonstrate usefulness…