This document, which is designed for individuals responsible for curriculum development and delivery at further education (FE) colleges in Britain, offers guidance on curriculum planning, implementation, and evaluation and contains an instrument for monitoring quality throughout the curriculum change process. The first half of the document details…

This guide explains the purpose and use of the Individual Career Plan (ICP) document as a tool that students can use from the middle grades onward to help them through the career planning process. Section 1, which provides a rationale for ICPs, examines their role in the career development process and use in the middle grades and high school.…

These guidelines were developed for serving students with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in school settings. An introduction reviews the frequency of TBI, range of severity, and legal responsibility for special education services. Guidelines are offered for creating prevention and awareness programs and for implementing staff development. A section…

The analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation of an instructional development project addressing the difficulty of completing the forms needed by students to obtain grants and other financial assistance for college is presented. Most students who attend college require financial assistance from their parents and/or loans and…

This color coded manual provides guidelines and required or recommended forms for the identification of artistically gifted and talented students in South Carolina at the elementary and secondary levels. A multi-step procedure is outlined which is divided into three stages: initial screening, specific screening, and final screening. The major…

This manual is intended to assist those Peace Corps field staff and volunteers who are considering or planning an all-volunteer conference (that is, an inservice event that is designed to provide personal, programmatic, and technical support to Peace Corps volunteers). The first chapter reviews current practices (including objectives, designs, and…

This booklet provides basic health and safety information for child care providers. The first three sections focus on (1) how illnesses spread, ways to reduce their spreading, health checks and daily observation of children; (2) communicating with parents; and (3) medical emergencies, fire, earthquake, weather emergencies, and other emergencies.…

Many communities have economic development efforts, which are generally undertaken in an attempt to create productive employment opportunities and to strengthen the local tax base. Unfortunatley, the economic development efforts of many communities, especially rural communities, are not productive ones. Many rural development efforts fail because…

The document contains the coordinator's guide, recruitment guide, practicum guide, training model, curriculum guide, bibliography, and evaluation guide for TABS, (Trained Aides as Baby Sitters), a training program that prepares individuals to be competent sitters for deaf-blind children and that provides a curriculum tailored to the needs of the…

To help educational administrators, this guide offers strategies and instruments for performing an internal review of school district management. It also provides guidelines for external reviews and briefly mentions followup procedures. After discussing the purposes and uses of school management reviews, the author identifies 32 types of…

Four interrelated parts make up a school health program: an administrative component; a health services component that determines the total health status of the student and seeks remedial action for health problems; a healthful school living component that designates the plans, procedures, and activities that provide a school environment conducive…

This handbook was developed to provide educators with a process to aid them in reviewing the reading curriculum in the local school. The handbook provides checklists and other methods to help teachers formulate a philosophy of and rationale for reading instruction; develop developmental, recreational, and functional student outcomes; develop a…

Teacher competency is the focus of this book, which serves as a guide for educational administrators who want to improve their teachers' effectiveness. Topics covered include testing teachers for competency, administrator role in improving principals and teachers, teacher evaluation, inservice education, and teacher centers. (Author/LD)

This resource booklet is intended to present a new set of tools and procedures for making meetings more participative. It is aimed at anyone who plans programs, meetings, conferences, classes, workshops, seminars, or conventions--from corporation presidents to managers to youth group leaders. Unit 1 identifies some of the issues and problems…

As an informational aid for community college development officers, this report describes the process of applying to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) for funds to cover the indirect costs associated with federally sponsored college programs. The report argues that while more community colleges should avail themselves of…