The manual describes specific procedures by which an educational consultant can train classroom teachers and other social agents how to increase the social and academic performance of acting-out children in first and second grades. The intervention procedures require 30 days to implement and to train teachers to regulate their attention so as to…

This report describes the training of two kinds of paraprofessionals in child care in Denmark: the family helper who has considerable educational background, and the family day care mother for whom there are no educational prerequisites. The funding, the training, and the curriculum design of the paraprofessional programs are discussed. There is…

This exemplary project is designed to help all students bridge the gap between school and work by creating change through an inservice program for counselors and through the implementation of a program of occupational information, orientation, and exploration for grades K-12. Phases of the project are: (1) staff recruitment and planning, (2)…

Programs and services conducted at Huntsville Hospital (Alabama), as part of an approach to lifelong education, are briefly described. Centralized within the hospital's division of education, activities include: those held in cooperation with educational institutions and other health agencies, competency-based modular nurse internship, and…

A one-day workshop on drug education program development combined didactic features with innovative group techniques to generate a practical list of needs, resources and possible programs for use in public schools. Participants discovered that by using inservice training and paraprofessional personnel, many of the needs of their schools might be…

Ways in which the Health Education Consortium has determined and is meeting the continuing education and inservice education needs of hospital personnel in Northwest Mississippi are described. (MS)

Explains the responsibilities of the South Australian Health Education Project team. Describes the project's work in the areas of curriculum writing, resource development, inservice training, and program evaluation. (GS)

Describes Decentralized Individualized Inservice Training (DIIT), a new police training system implemented by the Suffolk Country (New York) police department to reduce training time, increase learning transference, and improve performance. DIIT's minilibraries of video cassettes at each training location provide individualized instruction and…

Arizona Community Nutrition Workers gain college credit and job competence through Personalized Systems of Instruction. (Author/BB)

Described is the carefully designed, 18-month, four-phase program developed by Royal Typewriter to train salespeople to become effective sales managers. Traditional management selection procedures have been discarded, and every successful salesperson is permitted to evaluate management as a career and to exhibit his development potential. (AJ)

Describes the presentation of two design programs in the 1971-72 academic year. Indicates that faculty member participants could keep up-to-date and expand their teaching skill by making use of these activities. (CC)

Describes the basic ideas underlying the Governor Cahill Career Development Vocational Education Pilot Project. (Editor)

Describes Project Omega for Research in Remote Sensing Education, a program in space education designed for inservice training of elementary social studies teachers. Explains a few research areas dealing with the classroom applications of Landsat imagery. (CS)

New Medicare regulations will soon mandate upgrading of laboratory technicians' knowledge and skills; a Colorado demonstration project responded successfully to the needs of small-town and rural technicians with a creative approach (now being bought and used by others) and circuit-flying instructors. (AJ)

The study examined the professional development system of an early childhood education program which was influenced by the Reggio Emilia Approach to early learning. This multi-site program thrived within low-income, inner-city communities of Chicago. Literature connected to the program's historical context of the Settlement House and the Reggio…