The environmental technician, a new but necessary subordinate of a professional environmentalist, might be employed by a health department, natural resources commission, state agriculture department, municipal water plant, or by business or industry in self-inspection and corrective activities. The Program of Teacher Education for Environmental…

A 9-month pilot evaluation of the developing Special Education Instructional Materials Center (SEIMC) Network utilized two approaches: a process evaluation with site visits to determine the status of activities at the SEIMC's at the universities of Wisconsin and Southern California; and a user survey of 588 mail questionnaires, follow-up…

Recommendations are made for tentative regulations for the operation of an Educational Materials Coordinating Unit in the area of handproduced educational materials for the visually handicapped. General administrative recommendations for all media are provided in addition to recommendations by the braille, large type, and tape recording groups.…

All training materials prepared by the New Jersey Community Action Training Institute are briefly described in five sections of this catalogue. Sections are--training packages (syllabuses, curriculums, and schedules of each Institute training program, some with evaluations), training handbook, booklets, and brochures, case studies, discussion…

Approximately 2,700 books, pamphlets, and articles from all over the world published before October 1967, are listed in this annotated bibliography on public expenditure decision making. Emphasis is on the economic criteria of decision making derived through use of systematic and analytical methods. Entries are organized into 33 general…

In planning a program, school and community needs must be recognized; administrators, selected; and a step-by-step program for trainees, evolved. Objectives established should (1) develop an understanding of the philosophy of the elementary school, (2) acquaint aides with the assigned classroom schedule, and (3) develop an awareness of…

The Gallup-McKinley County Schools developed this curriculum guide in an attempt to aid teachers involved in teaching English as a second language to Spanish speaking students and students of Indian descent. The guide provides a brief description of the value systems of the three ethnic groups--Spanish American, Zuni, and Navajo. A phonetic…

The list of services includes religious workers, 20 American or organizations of and for the deaf, and 12 educational, rehabilitative, or professional services. Government sponsored research projects and graduate theses on deaf education are enumerated; a review of publications and a bibliography of periodicals on deafness are provided; a…

Summarizing discussions held during the Second Annual Child Abuse/Neglect Conference (Houston, 1977), this paper presents the following: the historical background of the special legal relationship between the Federal and tribal governments; current tribal-state relations (emphasis on state jurisdiction, Bureau of Indian Affairs' services, and the…

This student guide supplements a career development unit on coping in the world of work designed to assist students in developing coping strategies to deal with work entry and job adjustment problems. (Other components of the unit--instructor's handbook, handout/transparency masters, and filmstrip/sound cassette programs, are available…

One 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, this module focuses on the operation and functions of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, the functions of the state advisory…

The major purpose of a project has been to develop an instructional program for training water treatment technicians through the cooperative efforts of industry, the regulatory agency (West Virginia State Department of Health), and vocational education. After the appropriate job competencies were identified, a program was developed combining a…

This master plan is divided into three sections. The first consists of an historical profile of Thomas Nelson Community College (TNCC), a statement of the college's mission, and descriptions of the college's organizational structure, student characteristics, educational programs, and financial, personnel, and facility resources. The second section…

Part of a 13-volume series designed to be used as a group inservice or a self-learning system to train school administrators and counselors for their role in career education, this module focuses on the factors which have led to the growth of the career education concepts. The module is one of six for administrators and four for counselors…

Part of a 13-volume series designed to be used as a group inservice or a self-learning system to train school administrators and counselors for their role in career education, this module follows Module 1 and contains a more detailed examination of the various career education models from selected States with particular attention given to the…