The Grant Wood Area Education Agency (GWAEA) is a regional education service agency centered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, serving 39 public school districts and 36 private school districts in a seven-county area. Area education agencies (AEA) in Iowa are separate legal entities, not arms of the State Department or the school districts who decide to join…

Visits to 10 schools and residential centers in eight countries were made to investigate international applications of ecological models in the psychoeducational treatment of behavior disordered children. The ecological approach differs from other approaches because it views the problem as a disturbance in the relationship and reciprocity between…

This document contains accounts of nearly 200 programs currently in operation in California intermediate and secondary schools. The programs described were selected from among a large number of programs nominated by personnel from schools, district offices, and offices of county superintendents of schools. Teams of state department of education…

The implementation handbook, over two-thirds of which is comprised of appendixes, describes a three-phased career education program in Texas involving 40 gifted and talented high school seniors. Phase I, the Guidance Laboratory Experience, features self-investigation and evaluation, career exploration, resource speakers, isolation of career areas,…

This paper is an overview of a teacher evaluation program developed by two elementary school principals in Ralston, Nebraska. The program's development is traced from its planning stage through implementation. Points of emphasis show how administrators and teachers jointly developed teacher standards of competence and show how this relationship…

AN ANALYSIS OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE OF THE CHAMPAIGN SPECIAL SERVICES PROGRAM OUTLINES THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EDUCATION TO SCHOOL PERSONNEL, COMMUNITY AGENCIES, PARENTS, AND CHILDREN. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPECIAL SERVICES PERSONNEL AND REGULAR SCHOOL PERSONNEL IS SHOWN. THE PROGRAMS FOR EACH EXCEPTIONALITY ARE…

The paper describes a junior high school mentor program for gifted students. Noted among responsibilities of the coordinating teacher are finding a mentor to guide the student and arranging for the student's classes to be covered while he is away on field trips or in meetings. College students, nonpracticing teachers, hobbyists, and professional…

The author reviews trends in South African special education for learning disabled (LD) students and describes the approach used at a special school for LD students. (CL)

The seven descriptive position papers were prepared after selection for the Multi-National Workshop on Basic and Functional Education for Adults. Those selected are significant innovative programs of adult education in the U. S. which may have direct applicability to improving program practices in various parts of the world. The programs described…

The annotated bibliography on programing for the gifted contains approximately 85 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents published from 1960 to 1973 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). It is explained that…