One of eight sections of a handbook for use by vocational teacher educators in improving vocational teacher education linkage with business, industry, and labor, this second section is designed to promote the use of advisory committees to foster such linkages between teacher education departments and the private sector. Although the guidelines are…

This guidebook is written to assist groups planning to create a responsive and efficient teacher center. It includes a general description of teacher centers, goal options, steps in setting up and staffing teacher centers, program management, and facility planning. Examples of work materials, equipment, catalogues, and curriculum materials are…

Describes the activities of the International Center of Pedagogical Studies at Sevres. Principal activities include the methodological perfection of French and foreign teachers of languages and other disciplines, and the dissemination of information on educational developments to international organizations. (Text is in French.) (AM)

A description of the kinds of services libraries may provide to students in nontraditional programs and an examination of the kinds of training needed by librarians who perform such services. (LS)

The statewide plan for the continuing education of Florida library and media personnel described in this document is intended to increase the ability of those personnel to provide timely, accurate information and efficient library service to Florida citizens. The goals of the plan and its proposed activities are outlined, including the linking of…

Developments in four areas of teacher education have led to new conceptions for program planning. The first area involves the paramount importance of the relationship between students and teachers. A prerequisite for change in an educational system is the preparation of teachers for a new model of their teaching role which incorporates both…

Guidelines and standards are presented for use in writing proposals to establish Area Continuing Education Councils, each of which will be responsible for planning and coordinating good continuing education programs for a broad section of the library, media, and information community in its geographic area of Pennsylvania. Topics covered include…

An important and widely noticed trend among health professions and occupations in the 1970s has been the increasingly widespread use of credentialing mechanisms. These mechanisms are intended to ensure that health services are provided adequately and with at least a minimum degree of competence. This report is intended to enhance and broaden…

From October, 1977, through December, 1979, 13 one-day continuing education workshops were given by the University of Missouri Extension for nurses and other health-care professionals. A total of 520 different health care professionals attended the sessions, with multiple registrations bringing the total enrollment in the program to 925. Programs…

This paper describes a continuing education course designed to introduce school librarians to computer and communications technology as applied to indexing, cataloging, and networks, and to the principles and techniques of systems analysis. It is based on the premise that although computer and communications technology presents school librarians…

This final report describes three 10-day training programs for health professionals which were conducted in 1975, 1976, and 1977. All included a mixture of general sex behavior information and special health and mental health topics, methods of presentation (e.g.; lecture, panel, audiovisual, etc.), and types of presentors (e.g.; researchers,…

The means by which different delivery strategies can be matched with or made to accommodate to different inservice goals are discussed. A framework for assessing when one delivery strategy is more appropriate than another is provided. The framework for planning inservice delivery outlines distinct but complementary strategies that focus upon three…

Over the past six to eight years the Center for Occupational and Professional Assessment at the Educational Testing Service has conducted many efforts in the area of professional self-testing to identify individual strengths and weaknesses as well as to determine what professionals learn from exposure to new information. The results of these…