The most effective way to understand what a child knows about the reading process is to take a running record. In "Running Records", Mary Shea demonstrates how teachers can use this powerful tool to design lessons that decrease reading difficulties, build on strengths, and stimulate motivation, ensuring that children develop self-sustaining…

What is Response to Intervention (RTI) and how can it benefit your school? Find out in "RTI Success", an all-in-one resource that provides information on this innovative model as well as step-by-step administrator guidelines and practical teacher tools for implementation. Despite ongoing federal initiatives meant to increase the profile…

Discusses the advantages of keeping a class log. Describes how to write a log and provides tables for directions and evaluation. (YP)

This evaluation handbook is a collection of forms, ideas and questionnaires designed to be of help to potential or actual adoptors/adaptors of Project Futureprint. They are arranged in order of chronological use from the beginning step of analyzing the present reading program at a specific school to the final form which is the Futureprint adoption…

Written in outline form to provide basic information to student teachers about the University of Utah's Child and Family Development Center preschool program, this manual describes a model preschool program based on creative thinking skills. Included are: a description of the program's creative philosophy which also contains a list of blocks to…

Guidelines for establishing and maintaining classroom learning centers are contained in this booklet. The following topics are included: (1) a rationale for creating learning centers; (2) how to orient the children to the new learning center and some important aspects to consider when developing a learning center environment; (3) ways to create…

The Workplace Educational Skills Analysis (WESA) is a systematic process used to identify and analyze basic educational skills required to perform a job or cluster of jobs. The WESA methodology consists of the following six stages: WESA design meetings, interview preparation, interviews and observations, data analysis and draft reports,…

The purpose of this handbook is to provide a resource for institutions, departments, faculty members, and articulation committees who are engaged in articulating courses and programs for credit within the British Columbia (BC) Transfer System. The handbook is based on best practices as observed and recorded by the British Columbia Council on…

Job shadowing is a one-on-one participatory activity that allows an interested student to spend several hours or a day with a host employer or business. Shadowing enables students to gain insight into career goals and see the relevance of their curriculum in the "real world." The booklet, which was developed for use by school coordinators and…

This self-instructional module, the ninth in a series of 16 on techniques for coordinating work experience programs, deals with evaluating on-the-job training. Addressed in the module are the purpose of and procedures for evaluating students' on-the-job training and procedures for conducting evaluation interviews to discuss students' on-the-job…

This monograph, which was developed for home economics teachers, describes six alternative assessment techniques and contains sample assessment instruments and guide sheets. Discussed in the introduction are factors contributing to the increasing popularity of alternative assessment and the distinguishing features of the alternative assessment…

This guide is designed to help cooperative vocational education teachers-coordinators in New Jersey to understand the apprentice training opportunities open to their students. Covered first are the history of apprenticeship and an overview of apprenticeship today. Next, strategies are presented for linking apprentice training to cooperative…

A revised user manual for the Planning, Budgeting, and Monitoring (PBM) process of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) is presented. The logical development of NTID's tactical, one-year planning process is outlined, along with activities (e.g., interdivisional planning) and products (e.g., mission profile). For each chapter,…

This training package, one in a series of instructional modules consisting of an instructor's guide and a student activity packet, deals with records management. Included in the instructor's guide are general directions for implementing the presentation; a detailed guide for teaching the lesson that includes performance objectives, suggestions for…

This self-instructional module, the twelfth in a series of 16 on techniques for coordinating work experience programs, deals with regular coordination activities. Addressed in the module are: (1) the nature and scope of the regular coordination activities that must be conducted by teacher-ccordinators, and (2) the effective management of regular…