The report provides a general description of the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP) projects, abstracts of individual projects, and a means of identifying individual projects by location and common characteristics. After an introduction, the overview summarizes the activities of each of the five types of HCEEP projects -…

This staff development module is designed to: (1) introduce significant facts basic to understanding the cultural and historical heritage of three Asian-American cultures; (2) develop an accurate knowledge and awareness of the experiences of Asian-Americans; and (3) relate the geography and past history of China, Korea, and Japan to the United…

This bibliographic resource guide provides information on source, content and availability of project curricula and training materials developed for the Child Development Associate (CDA) program by CDA Pilot Projects and Head Start Supplementary Training/CDA programs. Materials cited reflect a variety of approaches to CDA training to meet the…

This study explores the potential benefits of multigenerational day care programs. Two small preschool programs serving predominantly low income black families were chosen for comparison. The programs were matched for child/staff ratio, level of staff professionalism, and characteristics of families served. The programs differed, however, in their…

This model proposes the TAP Team approach as an on-site delivery system for local school staff development in large, urban school systems. TAP emphasizes in-service training for both upgrading skills of staff and for helping staff acquire new skills in the areas of coping strategies, classroom management, communication skills, instructional…

When curriculum developers and project directors plan in-service training courses for the purpose of improvement of instruction in special programs, they often fail to include support staff members such as learning disability teacher consultants, guidance counselors, social workers, school librarians, and other support personnel in the target…

This paper presents a discussion of the integration of handicapped children into preschool programs. The paper is divided into five sections. The first section defines some of the terms frequently used in discussions of mainstreaming. These terms include mainstreaming; normalization; P. L. 94-142, the law providing for education for all…

The Demonstration Training Program (DTP) undertaken by the Detroit Medical Foundation (DMF) was designed for Primary Care Unit staffs (PCUs) or Physician Corporations (PCs), area health center providers under contract to the Michigan Health Maintenance Organization Plans, Inc. (MHMOP). The major goals of the program were to design an appropriate…

The Committee which prepared this report has surveyed the present approaches of teaching reading and communication skills in the Detroit, Michigan schools. The staff has examined previous studies of the Detroit Public Schools. The staff has conducted computer searches, reviewed relevant literature, consulted with nationally known reading…

This book describes a practicum project that analyzed the organizational structure of the regional service teams at the California State Department of Education and designed a strategy to reduce the organizational problems caused by consolidating application procedures for seven state and federal categorical aid programs. The practicum design…

The planning and implementation processes of the Long Island Faculty Development Program are described. Originally sponsored by the American Historical Association's Faculty Development Program to improve history instruction, this project includes faculty representatives from four Long Island universities, colleges, and junior colleges. The…

This annual evaluation report for Fiscal Year 1975 of North Carolina Title I, Elementary Secondary Education Act programs is organized into nine sections. These sections focus on, respectively: basic state statistics, state education agency Title I visits to local education agencies, changes in state educational agency Title I procedures, effects…

Attempts to answer the question "What does research say about getting innovations into schools?" are based on the experiences of a nonprofit organization that has been engaged in staff development efforts to bring about change in schools. The paper presents a general description of the organization's operation; its relationship to other change…

This collection of nine papers grew out of a series of presentations made by advanced graduate students participating in a seminar in Higher Education during the spring term, 1975. The purpose of the seminar is to afford advanced students an opportunity to explore in depth the topics considered in the more general way in the course sequence and in…

The master's thesis is directed toward compiling information regarding recruitment and training of bilingual teachers, with particular emphasis on teachers of Mexican Americans. It establishes a rationale for bilingual teacher education programs and inservice education. The study answers questions about (1) the responsbility for staff development,…