This handbook provides overall guidelines for the secondary division of the Virginia Association of the Distribtive Education Clubs of America (VA DECA). The handbook was written to clarify and promote the educational value of DECA activities; to outline procedures and provide material for local chapter improvement and development; to provide for…

This guide is designed for use by advisors, officers, and other members of local chapters of the Young Homemakers of Virginia. It contains recommendations and suggestions to help local chapters conduct their programs and work toward their educational purposes in a professional, effective manner. The guide is organized in two sections. The first…

This manual is intended to assist health occupations education (HOE) teachers in planning clinical experiences for their students. Addressed in the individual sections of the guide are the following topics: the purpose, philosophy, and legal aspects of clinical experiences in HOE; the HOE clinical structure (teacher qualifications, the role of the…

The structural ambiguity of American professional schools is considered, with attention to the academic branches of business and medicine. Differences in the nature of clinical-academic tensions in business and medical schools are explored, along with the structural sources of these differences. Trends within professional schools during the early…

A review of the literature on teacher preparation and inservice programs in rural areas encompasses dilemmas facing rural education, what colleges and universities can do, and implications for colleges and universities. Part 1 describes dilemmas facing rural educators, not only in terms of class load, multiple preparations, extracurricular duties,…

This paper, on the state of inservice teacher education, is divided into five parts. The paper's first part, which focuses on the context in which teaching occurs and on the role of the teacher, points out that, while the common denominator in the study of teaching is the teacher/learner relationship, social issues also affect teachers and…

This descriptive study investigates the variability in the curriculum pacing decisions of classroom teachers. The effects on the reading achievement and performance gains of first and second grade students in a compensatory education program program are examined. Data were collected from: (1) the Metropolitan Readiness Test results used to select…

This handbook describes the model learning resources center in operation at Daviess County (Kentucky) State Vocational-Technical School and details its objectives, materials, and methods of operation. The manual is organized in six sections. The first section describes the learning resources center, and details its philosophy, purpose, objectives,…

Focusing upon reading problems and their identification, this handbook presents guidelines, procedures, techniques, and prescriptions for teaching basic reading skills to students who need assistance in becoming mature readers. The skills focused upon in the handbook are those of comprehension, oral reading, reading readiness, silent reading,…

The Language School in Seattle has conducted extracurricular foreign language classes in 31 local elementary schools for several years. Each school has a parent coordinator, the courses are tuition-supported, and the objectives are to establish language learning interest and cultural awareness using the Total Physical Response method. A dramatic…

In this article, the author describes the current state of research on web-based instruction and posits new directions to expand the current paradigm. Issues of faculty attitude and support toward distance education, instructional immediacy, and the Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education (Chickering and Gamson, 1986) relative…

The child brings to the classroom a socially conditioned way of behaving, both verbal and nonverbal, which reflects both the maturational process and sociocultural conditioning, and a socially conditioned view of what the norms of the dominant society are and what that society expects of him or her. The school attempts to transmit the cultural…

The nature of society, technology, and education is related to the future and there is a need to explore the implications that each has upon industrial arts education. The incredible advanced technologies that have affected society are starting to affect education and are sure to change many characteristics of industrial arts education. As…

The curriculum guide presents the activities component of the Human Development Program for preschool and kindergarten students. The Human Development Program (HDP) is an affective curricular approach developed by psychologists. Major objectives of this program are to help children assume responsibility and build self-confidence. After a brief…

The curriculum guide presents the activities component of the Human Development Program for the first grade. The Human Development Program (HDP) is an affective curricular approach developed by psychologists to aid teachers in instilling responsibility and self-confidence in children. The guide presents topics and directions for 180 sequential…