This book focuses on the process of implementing an alternative school within a public urban system. To identify and illustrate the problems inherent in organizing and operating an alternative school the West Philadelphia Community Free School was taken as a case study. Observations and analysis are here offered on two different levels: (1)…

During its first year 1972-73, the project was concerned with total implementation of an innovative plan for scheduling high school classes--the Trimester/Modular Scheduling Plan and inservice education for teachers to help them update their teaching strategies and adapt them to the classtime allotments of the new scheduling plan. Four of the…

There are many questions regarding the adoption and the use of the Continuing Education Unit (CEU). Who supports CEU? The National University Extension Association, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and many other State and institutional sponsors recognize the CEU. What is the CEU? Ten normal classroom hours of noncredit continuing…

Exploring the problems and needs of a new system of credit, Milton Stern, in "Continuing Education," Journal of Higher Education, vol. 39, no. 8, 1968, pp. 468-470, and Robert J. Pitchell in "The Washington Scene," The National University Extension Association Spectator, Jan. 12, 1969, both report on the 1968 National Planning Conference. In…

The principal objective of Project Sesame is to improve opportunities for pupil learning by developing a model for the coordination of smaller school districts' innovative ventures; a related objective is the stimulation of professional staff. This Project Sesame document lists educational games (K-12) developed at workshops by teachers in a…

Plans for the evaluation of the Time Shared Interactive Computer-Controlled Information Television System (TICCIT) and Programed Logic for Automatic Operations (PLATO) are discussed. These projects represent attempts to implement innovative curricular systems and to demonstrate the effectiveness of computer assisted instruction. Plans for the…

This Scrapbook is a description of how eight 12th grade students, with help from the professional staff of the Social Science Education Consortium, planned and put on a community environmental fair in Boulder, Colorado. The Boulder Experiments Fair grew out of an environmental education project conducted by SSEC and funded by the Office of…

This study attempts to sum up the present state of knowledge on the process of innovation in education through a synthesis of previous writings on the subject. The author approaches this material from an international and comparative point of view and shows the need for more systematic reporting of cases of change from other parts of the world.…

This course syllabus is part of the competency-based elementary teacher education program that was developed by the University of Toledo. It contains the ten learning modules which comprise the second course in the sequential elementary education program: a) Instructional Simulations and Academic Games; b) Preparation of Locally Produced…

This course syllabus is the third unit in the elementary teacher preparation sequence developed at the College of Education, University of Toledo. The nine competency-based learning modules included in the syllabus are a) Learning Theory and Motivation; b) Identifying and Specifying Behaviors; c) Observing and Recording Behaviors; d) Behavioral…

This course syllabus is part of the comprehensive competency-based elementary teacher education program developed at the College of Education, University of Toledo for the U.S. Office of Education. The first course in the elementary education sequence consists of 12 learning modules: a) Performance Skills and Inquiry; b) Group Process--Principles…

This course syllabus includes revised competency-based elementary teacher education learning modules that were developed at the University of Toledo as part of the Ohio Model. The module titles are a) Teaching Science in the Elementary School, b) Concept Attainment, c) Social Studies Planning, d) Selection and Application of Instructional Media in…

This work has been done as part of the effort to plan the National Institute of Education (NIE). The report, one of a series, proposes and analyzes alternative ways of organizing and managing (1) the proposed National Institute of Education, (2) the relationship between NIE and the rest of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's…

Over ten years ago, in a report on the process of education, Jerome Bruner dealt with the advantages of using film and other audiovisual materials. First he said that film can help use and develop attention. Secondly, he identified film as one of the "devices for vicarious experience." He said that film can be used as a dramatizing device, as a…

This study investigated innovative trends in scheduling classes in relation to the traditional method of scheduling. The nongraded organization was examined in relation to the schools-within-a-school type of organization. Another aim of the study was to offer recommendations about scheduling and organization to administrators on the basis of the…