This study investigated the attitudes and understanding of participants and nonparticipants toward a program to improve the quality of instruction by Ohio Cooperative Extension Service personnel. Using a questionnaire and rating scales, data were obtained on personal background, teaching methods and techniques, and educational aids and practices,…

This final report describes activities of the Early Integration Training Project (EITP), which provided multidisciplinary inservice training to child-care personnel in Ohio to facilitate the inclusion of young children (birth through age 5) with disabilities in typical community early childhood programs. The 3-year project has provided a 15-hour…

Year 2 (1998-99) of Ohio's School-to-Work (STW) system focused on continuing to get information out to practicing school counselors through workshops, articles, and modules and on helping counselor educators understand STW so they could infuse STW into their training programs for preservice school counselors. A multi-university work team, together…

A PROJECT WAS UNDERTAKEN TO DEVELOP A SERIES OF PACKAGED, INTEGRALLY RELATED, SELF-ADMINISTRABLE WORKSHOPS WHICH COULD BE USED BY TEACHERS FOR INSERVICE AUDIOVISUAL EDUCATION. EACH WORKSHOP PROGRAM WAS PRODUCED AROUND A PARTICULAR TOPIC, FOR EXAMPLE, OVERHEAD PROJECTION. THE PROGRAMS WERE LATER TESTED, REVISED, AND EVALUATED IN SAMPLE SCHOOLS.…

An evaluation report of a workshop conducted by the Office of Research, University of Pittsburgh (May 18-21, 1970) for vocational and special education teachers in the Cincinnati Public Schools is presented. Summary of the workshop, objectives, consultations, inservice workshops, and evaluations by participants and staff are enumerated. Such…

This curriculum was developed by the Ohio Higher Education Partnership Project (OHEPP) as a training tool to promote greater levels of participation in personnel preparation by parents of children with disabilities. OHEPP has the following three objectives: (1) develop and support parent-faculty "teams" throughout the state; (2) provide…

This paper presents a model of a teacher needs-based (TNB) professional development program. The TNB model formed the foundation of three externally funded professional development programs. The objectives of this model are to maximize the effects of a professional development program, and to help participants sustain their learning over the long…

Project HAND-UP (Helping Adolescents Needing Direction-Unlimited Partnership) was a 2-year program to enhance dropout prevention services to at-risk youth by establishing a closer linkage between Job Training Partnership (JTPA)-Ohio and the Ohio Department of Education's Occupational Work Adjustment (OWA) programs. The project's major activities…

This publication contains over 80 descriptions of grant-winning entrepreneurship education programs offered in Ohio public schools. Each program description contains information on some or all of the following: sponsoring school(s), project title, purpose, target population, program format and content, site and time of program offering, project…