Describes a model career education program at Dallas' Skyline Career Development Center where students receive a balance of academic and occupational education leading to a career. (DW)

GUIDELINES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR THE PREPARATION OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ARE PRESENTED. THEY ARE THE RESULTS OF A SERIES OF CONFERENCES THAT INCLUDED ELEMENTARY, HIGH SCHOOL, AND COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY TEACHERS AS WELL AS ADMINISTRATORS, SCIENTISTS, MATHEMATICIANS, AND REPRESENTATIVES OF…

This volume contains evaluation reports of programs implemented primarily during the summer of 1968, in the Los Angeles Unified School District, funded through Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Elementary level programs concentrated on educational enrichment, the development of staff in the areas of human relations and…

This 3-year program has three goals: (1) to devise a curriculum for disadvantaged 4-year-olds, (2) to develop a model for introducing new curriculums into a school setting, and (3) to develop parent group-work programs to foster achievement, inner control, and cognitive development in the child. The sample consists of 50 Negro and 50 white…

This paper describes the purpose and function of the "mini-sabbatical" for college faculty. This short term sabbatical is of one week duration. During this period the teacher visits an educational institution other than his own with the object of observing, interviewing, and discussing his field of interest with faculty members…

This document is the presenter's guide to SO 008 871. The document is the result of three and one-half years of effort to improve social studies in the secondary schools in Iowa. Perspectives, part one of the two-part series, presents information and background to aid in the reform, innovation, and evaluation of social studies programs. This…

This report gives details of an inservice program designed to help teachers learn and understand the Mathematics Continuous Progress-Skill Mastery Program and Management System in Chicago schools. The program consists of locally-developed curriculum guides and behavioral objectives, criterion-reference tests, and mastery record key-sort cards.…

An ethnic heritage studies project of the Cleveland Public Schools is evaluated. The prupose of the project is to create a program for research and curriculum development in ethnicity which will serve as a model to educational institutions throughout the country. Program efforts focused on five major activity areas including curriculum…

This paper describes how a five-day supervisor training program was designed and offered cooperatively for the personnel department of a city of 100,000 population. It includes the content and related learning experiences which were developed for the training and an evaluation of the results. The course covers basic supervision skills for newly…

The publication provides the basic steps and insights to developing a philosophy of career education. It provides change agents within local schools with the background and results of the program developed in Milford, Nebraska. The publication is separated into two parts; they are: (1) position statements and philosophy, and (2) principles and…

This issue of the Indiana Social Studies Quarterly on the High School Geography Project focuses on efforts which have been made nationally to have the project diffused and utilized by teachers. The following articles are included: (1) Second Thoughts About the High School Geography Project by Nicholas Helburn, Project Director; (2) Dissemination…

In this paper, an attempt is made to establish a hierarchical order of purpose for the elementary school principalship. In rank order, these purposes are (1) clinical supervision, whose central purposes are the improvement of instruction utilizing objective systematic feedback techniques and effective knowledge of group dynamics; (2) professional…

The purpose of this report is to present a description of the instructional program, funded in part under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, and the findings of the study which assessed pupil performance in reading and mathematics and related estimated costs to pupil performance. The following projects were utilized as…

This volume presents annotations of resources on performance-based teacher education. The materials, produced after 1967, include films, slide/tapes, modules, programmed texts, and multimedia kits for training pre- and in-service educational personnel. The materials are indexed according to both competency categories and key words, descriptions,…

The second interim report of the Watertown, South Dakota, public schools career development project covers the year ending September 13, 1972. This second year continued program development and implementation and began dissemination of project information. Individual development was emphasized in the elementary and junior high programs, with…