Professional development is the central focus of the collection of five papers included in this monograph. Casting views in the framework of "advocacy," each paper addresses one of the following topics which are of central interest in the field of vocational education: accountability, work experience, assessment, career clusters, and postsecondary…

Granted that live, interactive television can provide effective university instruction for industrial employees, the University-Industry Television for Education (UNITE) system, operated by the University of Minnesota, presents a number of problems for its industrial users. In reexamining their own commitment to UNITE and the sizable financial…

The orientation and in-service training of adjunct faculty members is one of the most neglected aspects of an institution's faculty development program. Few institutions provide any consideration at all and, of those which do, most conduct little more than brief orientation sessions at the beginning of an academic term. There can be little doubt…

This paper describes a child development project implemented in an attempt to demonstrate that a full range of child development services can be centered in an elementary school. Child development services are defined as a broad array of support systems to children and their families which facilitate the children's progression through life--their…

In December 1973, the Committee to Improve Performance of School Personnel was established. The task of the Committee was to create an effective system of improving professional performance which could be put into practice in any school situation in Kentucky, a system which could be utilized with all professional staff members whether they be…

The guidelines on leadership development for urban 4-H Clubs contain two brief introductory sections: the first, rationale, presents definitions of the roles of volunteers, professionals, and paraprofessionals in 4-H Clubs; the second, purpose and objectives, explains the principles behind the curriculum. The section on curriculum format is…

The module is one of a series of eight developed to provide inservice training for administrators of career education programs. It attempts to identify the essential components of comprehensive career education program development. A careful examination is made of the major components of program development: curriculum, staff development, guidance…

These conference proceedings are divided into two parts: (1) teacher training institutions and the need for multicultural education, and (2) models that have been developed to facilitate staff training and development. Papers presented in the first section are said to indicate that preservice education in the area of multicultural education at…

The Bilingual Mini-Head Start program aims to maintain contacts with migrant children from their home base through a series of northern work locations. The project has served migrant children over a 6,000 mile circuit in three different states, showing its flexibility at each site in adapting to take advantage of local programs as well as…

The purpose of the project was to design and present an inservice education program for work experience teachers and coordinators in order to improve their operational effectiveness at the school/classroom level. A series of five three-hour programs were conducted at five California locations. A total of 503 participants, representing 211 school…

This final report of the 1974-75 Florida Right to Read Effort staff development program provides an evaluation by participating administrators, reading contacts, and teachers. The first two sections of this report give background information about the National Right to Read Effort as well as the Florida Right to Read program. The third section…

These conference papers deal with many topics of current interest to community college educators in the United States and Canada. Subjects discussed include: staff development as institutional change; adult education; personhood development in the community college; community-based education priorities and alternative futures; community college…

The purpose of this manual is to provide guidelines and assistance to local education agency planners in the needs-assessment process. In the first section, the needs-assessment process is discussed within the overall framework of the program development cycle. Subsequent sections treat each step in the process, providing a model. Issues are…

Contained in this publication are project descriptions and evaluative assessments made by a team selected to critically examine vocational education projects in operation during the 1971-72 school year. The projects were designed to attain one of these four basic goals: (1) Provide career development activities utilizing various models, (2)…

A list of carefully selected readings on ways to organize the information flow within a company, this bibliography presents 68 annotated references to literature illustrating the problems of putting information across to industry and establishing information services within industrial firms. The publication is primarily aimed at the information…