This practicum addressed the need to expand and change the speech-language pathology service delivery system within Harris County (Texas), which was experiencing severe shortages of speech-language pathologists with numbers of students going unserved. The practicum involved planning training sessions on alternative service delivery strategies and…

Interviews were conducted with 20 out of 40 primary teachers who, 3 or 4 years earlier, had participated in inservice workshops on Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI), a research-based approach that emphasizes using children's mathematical knowledge to teach mathematics and who had consented to do the interviews. Although all but one teacher were…

A 2-year pilot program in Toronto, Ontario, used in-school learning centers (LC) to enable 60 variously handicapped students in three junior schools to withdraw from self-contained classes and mainstream into regular classes. To develop the program, a Special Education Work Group performed such activities as writing issue papers, visiting 12…

The Bilingual Pupil Services Program (B.P.S.) has been administered for ten years by the Office of Bilingual Education of the New York City Public Schools. In the 1983-84 school year the project provided in-service training of para-professionals to work with students of limited English proficiency (LEP) in grades one through six in the already…

The purpose of this module is to help the professional school counselor acquire and demonstrate a number of specific competencies in the area of information processing. Included are 33 indicators, or statements describing skills, in the general areas of referral, pupil appraisal, and resource management. This document is one of seven staff…

This module for school counselors presents a series of learning activities related to the skills required to implement a systematic planning model. The three global skills in this model are: assessing client needs, program design, and program evaluation. This model is designed to result in a guidance program based on the individual counselor's…

The document presents the final report of the Model Vision Project (MVP) Outreach Phase, funded to demonstrate appropriate educational, diagnostic, training, and other services to severely multihandicapped, visually impaired children. Roles of various staff are reviewed, and individuals serving as consultants are listed. Summarized are the goals…

This final evaluation report examines the activities of the P.S. 243 Follow Through Resource Center in Brooklyn, New York during the 1980-81 school year which was established to disseminate and demonstrate the Bank Street Follow Through model. The report includes an evaluation of training and implementation of the Bank Street model at two adopting…

Program Methods and Materials for Training Career Educators (Project FOCUS) established and accomplished three major objectives: (1) to identify, select, and provide inservice career awareness staff development training for elementary school teachers; (2) to design, develop, and evaluate a replicable, exportable, and practical staff development…

Major issues regarding the feasibility of training on-site educators to become evaluators of multicultural programs in classrooms are discussed. The issues evolved from a 10-month training/research project in California. Four sections comprise the report. Section I provides an introduction to the project. Section II discusses the two phases of the…

A problem-solving evaluative approach is described for an ESEA/Title III program in Topeka, Kansas. One problem in the program was to identify the reading curriculum needs of the 34 elementary, 11 junior high, and 3 high schools with a total enrollment of 25,000 students. There were 1,000 students 2 or more years below their expected level who had…

A model responsive educational system being evolved by the Far West Laboratory is designed to serve children from ages 3 to 9. The major objectives of the educational system are to help children develop self-concept as it relates to learning in the school and the home, and to develop intellectual ability. An autotelic environment is stressed. The…

The Field Studies Program in Elementary Education is the 1973 Distinguished Achievement Award Entry from Lowell State College, Lowell, Massachusetts. This master's degree training program for experienced and inexperienced teachers focuses on the following objectives: a) the coordination of innovative educational programs in public and parochial…

This volume of the Total Creativity Program outlines the rationale for teaching the thinking-feeling processes on which the program is based. It also suggests ways of implementing the program in the classroom. Although the program can be implemented by individual teachers, pilot studies found that a group training program was often helpful in…

Suggests the following three steps for effective management of playground aides: (1) developing better screening procedures for hiring noncertified staff; (2) devising a systematic inservice training program on supervising student behavior outside of the classroom; and (3) establishing a system of school discipline that involves visible support…