The policy statement outlines New York State standards regarding: (1) the driver's education program; (2) vehicles in the program; (3) administration, supervision, and organization of summer school programs; (4) teachers in the program; and (5) pupils in the program. A glossary defines terms and instructional objectives. Program policies…

This resource book provides information on part-time master's degree programs at colleges in Northeastern New York State. The various programs are organized into three groupings: major graduate fields, individual programs, and colleges. Provided are lists of specific programs and the college(s) where they are offered; an alphabetical listing of…

A LIST OF GOALS AND SUGGESTED IMPLEMENTATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN WAS GIVEN. AMONG THE OBJECTIVES WERE THE FORMATION OF LANGUAGE CONCEPTS, THE LEARNING OF RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN WORDS AND SENTENCES, THE DEVELOPMENT OF AWARENESS OF SELF, AND DEVELOPMENT OF FAMILIARITY WITH ENVIRONMENTS. SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF…

The model described here was developed for use as a program planning guide by teachers, many of them business and other lay people, at the secondary school level who offer adult education courses on how to make management decisions and solve problems. Ten features of the model are listed: (1) The purpose is to assist owner-operators or managers to…

The purpose of this booklet is to introduce teachers and students to the Blacksmith's Shop, one of the many craft programs available for student participation at the Brookville Homestead site developed to recreate life as it was in the early days of Long Island's settlement. Active participation in the blacksmithing craft activity is designed to…

Nissequogue River State Park is one of the last large tracts of undeveloped land on Long Island (NY) and is a refuge for organisms displaced by the rapid and extensive growth of suburbia. A reconstructed 120 year old barn and stable house the Outdoor Learning Laboratory which consists of interpretive displays (bird and mammal identification,…

Since 1971 a fully equipped learning laboratory building and the open fields, woodlands, salt water marshes, and beaches of Sunken Meadow State Park have been available for year round day use by students and educators in New York's Suffolk and Nassau counties. Funded by the New York Office of Parks and Recreation and local Boards of Cooperative…

This program guide was designed to assist occupational education administrators and health occupations education personnel in planning, developing, and implementing programs to prepare youth and adults for work as dental laboratory technicians. The content is presented in five sections. The first, an introduction, discusses what dental laboratory…

Information is provided about the four-year undergraduate colleges of the State University of New York for 1979. The profile concerns the location and a brief description of the campuses; the general availability, type, and requirements of housing; campus activities; enrollment figures for fall l977, tuition costs, admission criteria, academic…

This guidebook is intended to provide resource information needed to develop comprehensive vocational education for handicapped students in rural areas as well as to synthesize suggestions from successful experiences in special vocational education programs currently in existence. The guidebook provides information on the following laws and…

This practitioner's guide to helping employment program clients find, retain, and advance in jobs is based on the experiences of Moving Up, an employment program operated by New York's Vocational Foundation, Inc. (VFI). The guide begins with an overview of Moving Up, which has become a national model for helping disadvantaged minority youths…

The culmination of educational experiences in the outdoors is the resident outdoor education program. Involving teachers and pupils living and learning in the natural environment, the program emphasizes the development of human values and provides students with learning opportunities that focus on direct, real, and relevant experiences. Intended…

This document presents a training module designed to help adult literacy program providers in New York and elsewhere to use the principles of social marketing to improve recruitment and retention in adult education programming. Literacy program providers are taught to view the social marketing process as a process of exchange between themselves as…

This guide contains descriptions and credit recommendations for almost 800 credit courses in a wide variety of subject areas conducted by some 70 organizations in New York State. The organizations include business and industry, labor unions, professional and voluntary associations, government agencies, and other organizations whose primary…

This guide introduces a program of foreign language instruction intended for a wide variety of students with various interests and competencies. The program provides for a basic course, two strands (The State Diploma and the Local School Credit) and several options. During the basic course, a diagnosis is made of individual students' aptitudes and…