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Direct linkMelissa B. Holler – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Throughout the United States, there is a persistent shortage of special education teachers. School administrators recognize this phenomenon and must work collaboratively to resolve the issue of special education teachers choosing different career paths. The literature shows that special education teachers leave the field within the first…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Public Schools
Peer reviewedNapoleon, Larry; Freedman, Debra; Seetharaman, Koushik; Sharma, Priya – Journal of Food Science Education, 2006
This article describes the outcomes of a needs assessment concerning current training needs and performance targets for non-degreed employees in the food industry. Focus groups were used to gather data from 5 food-processing companies: a fresh vegetable company, a canned vegetable company, 2 snack food companies, and a meat company. Focus group…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Needs Assessment, Employees, Job Training
PDF pending restorationFiene, Richard – 1992
A multi-dimensional training program is being implemented in Pennsylvania to improve the quality of early childhood and child care programs. Training opportunities are provided for early childhood program and day care center staff, group and family home day care providers, and unregulated child care providers. The overall training plan is designed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Caregivers, Cooperative Programs, Day Care
Download full textWalker, Thomas J.; And Others – 1995
Three Pennsylvania universities focused on defining the functional role and identifying the training needs of work-based mentors for Pennsylvania's system of school-to-work transition, in order to design a training protocol. Interviews were conducted with 81 experienced employees concerning their view of the mentoring role and the activities that…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cooperative Programs, Course Content, Course Descriptions
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1988
This document contains transcripts of oral and written testimony from witnesses at a hearing on H.R. 18 and H.R. 460, which would create a National Youth Corps. The National Youth Corps proposal links two other proposals, the Conservation Corps bill and the National Youth Service bill, into a comprehensive bill to provide alternatives for youth in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Basic Education, Citizen Participation, Community Development
Local Government Research Corp., State College, PA. – 1979
Eight feasibility studies, conducted since 1973, investigated the need for non-traditional approaches to two-year postsecondary education programs in areas of Pennsylvania not served by locally sponsored community colleges. The proposed institutions were modeled on a concept of "colleges without walls." This concept involves (1) using…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Community Surveys, Costs
Mitchell, Robert B., Ed. – 1996
The following are among the 34 papers included: "An Assessment of Support Staff Training in Public Two-Year Colleges" (Kuceyeski); "Attitude and Motivation of Vocational Student Teachers toward Teaching Commerce and Entrepreneurship" (Pihie, Elias); "Barriers Adult Office Education Students Encounter in Pursuit of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Students, Advisory Committees
