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Thomas, George I. – 1969
While most administrators are primarily interested in the economies offered by the extended school year, it is the opportunities for increasing educational quality which should receive primary attention. The knowledge explosion in the past 70 years dictates this focus. There are four basic ways of rescheduling the school year: (1) The staggered…
Descriptors: Acceleration, Computer Oriented Programs, Economics, Educational Improvement
National Commission on Resources for Youth, Inc., New York, NY. – 1968
This document reports a 1967 summer pilot program designed to serve as a model for uniting the Youth Tutoring Youth concept with the Neighborhood Youth Corps. An introductory section overviews the project in which 200 14- and 15-year olds who were not achieving well in school and who had fallen below grade level in reading were trained to serve as…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Disadvantaged Youth, Instructional Materials, On the Job Training
Western Washington Univ., Bellingham. – 1966
Teachers involved in the Visual Communication Education project attended a summer program in 1966 at which the following edited lectures were made by resource people who represented diverse points of view: (1) "The Design and Technical Foundations of Visual Communication" by Kenneth G. Scheid examines supply and deman, technological…
Descriptors: Commercial Art, Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Design Requirements
Institute of International Education, New York, NY. – 1969
The present report on courses in English for speakers of other languages lists 301 academic-year offerings at 299 institutions and 125 summer offerings including separate orientation programs at 114 institutions. Also listed are degree and certificate programs in English for speakers of other languages offered at 44 institutions and 29 other…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Language Programs
Voegel, George H. – 1970
A 6-week summer workshop on instructional development took place at William Rainey Harper College (Illinois) in 1968. Six outside consultants and 10 faculty members discussed topics relating to (1) developing instructional concepts for courses, units, and learning steps; (2) developing instructional objectives, criteria and conditions of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum, Instructional Improvement
Howard, Pierce; Arlin, Marshall – 1974
Twenty-six principals from schools in North Carolina participated in five days of leadership training. They then participated in a 2-week staff development workshop within their own schools but met together again for leadership analysis after the end of each day's staff session. A faculty environment survey was administered to all staff before and…
Descriptors: Feedback, Leadership Training, Organizational Development, Principals
Plumb, Valworth R.; Ojala, Leonard N. – 1974
This document describes a three-part, flexible, individualized teacher education program which spans the preservice/inservice continuum. The first part, Secondary Teacher Education Program (STEP), is a five-phase program which features early and continuous contact with secondary school classrooms and students, individual learning packages called…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Individualized Programs, Inservice Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Civil Service Commission, Washington, DC. Bureau of Training. – 1972
This booklet was compiled from information received from employment agencies involved in the federal summer jobs program over the past five years and is intended to provide employment staffs with a reference to various ideas, techniques, and resources useful in training summer employees. Ideas and techniques are presented in outline and summary…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Employment Programs, Employment Services, Job Training
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs. – 1971
Testimony concerning the Summer Feeding Program was heard during the June 25, 1971 hearing from R. S. Gribbs, mayor of Detroit, Mich.; K. Gibson, mayor of Newark, N. J. and, Arnold Robles and Edward Koplan, program administrators of Los Angeles County, Calif., and City of San Antonio, Texas. Testimony concerning the withholding of funds for…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Breakfast Programs, Community Surveys, Federal Government
Gallien, John J. – 1971
Described is an ESEA Title I project carried out in Orange County, Virginia, a rural area. Project components included the training of 16 special education teachers during an 8-week summer program and a 6-week summer instructional program for 194 educationally disadvantaged students in grades 1-8. Student classes served as practical sites for…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children, Inservice Teacher Education
Starkovich, Paul – 1972
The report describes the Summer Sessions for Preschool, Rubella, Deaf-Blind Children conducted in 1970 and 1971 by the Northwest Regional Center for Deaf-Blind Children in Vancouver, Washington. The summer programs were primarily designed to evaluate preschool deaf-blind children in a learning and living situation. The report is intended not only…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Evaluation, Exceptional Child Services, Multiple Disabilities
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. – 1972
This directory lists the institutions awarded support by the National Science Foundation for 276 summer institutes in 1972 for secondary school teachers of science and/or mathematics. The introduction gives information on "unitary" and "sequential" institutes, eligibility and selection of participants, applications, and information concerning…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Mathematics Teachers, Science Teachers
Erickson, Lawrence; And Others – 1972
This study measured the effectiveness of teacher education programs in modifying cross-cultural attitudes through Osgood's Semantic Differential (SD) techniques, coupled with factor and pattern similarity analyses. The five concepts rated were desegregation, discipline, instructional technique, professionalism, and students. Subjects were 51 black…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Institutes (Training Programs), Integration Studies, Racial Integration
Cooperative College-School Science Program, College Park, MD. – 1972
The report describes the summer institute of the cooperative College-School Science Program, Prince George's County/University of Maryland, which met from June 21 to July 28, 1972 in Riverdale, Maryland. Participants consisted of twenty-five teachers who were enrolled for six hour credits from the University of Maryland. The overall objectives of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Program Descriptions
STANLEY, JULIAN C. – 1966
A SUMMER PROGRAM IN THE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENTS WAS HELD AND ITS RESULTS REPORTED. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN, STATISTICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER USAGE, PREPARATION OF RESEARCH PROPOSALS, SPECIAL TOPICS, AND INDEPENDENT STUDY WERE DISCUSSED. TO AID IN THE EVALUATION OF THE PROGRAM, EACH OF THE 30 PARTICIPANTS ANSWERED A QUESTIONNAIRE…
Descriptors: Design, Educational Experiments, Graduate Study, Program Evaluation
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