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NAYLOR, HARRIET H. – 1967
THE MAJOR CHALLENGE NOW FACING VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS, ESPECIALLY IN VIEW OF SUCH COMPETING FEDERAL PROGRAMS AS THE PEACE CORPS AND VISTA, IS TO RECRUIT, TRAIN, AND HOLD A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF PROMISING VOLUNTEERS, PARTICULARLY AT THE POLICY MAKING LEVEL. SINCE FUTURE VOLUNTEERS WILL COME INCREASINGLY FROM THE RANKS OF THE TECHNICALLY EDUCATED…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Learning, Curriculum Development, Federal Programs
GLOVER, J.H. – 1966
THE CHIEF OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY OF SPEED-SKILL ACQUISITION WAS TO FIND A MATHEMATICAL MODEL CAPABLE OF SIMPLE GRAPHIC INTERPRETATION FOR INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AND PRODUCTION SCHEDULING AT THE SHOP FLOOR LEVEL. STUDIES OF MIDDLE SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN MACHINE AND VEHICLE ASSEMBLY, AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION, SPOOLMAKING AND THE MACHINING OF PARTS CONFIRMED…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Industrial Training, Job Skills, Learning Plateaus
Egan, B. – 1975
One of thirteen individualized courses included in a marketing curriculum, this course covers training of employees, employee evaluation, motivation and morale of employees, and decision-making. The course is comprised of three units: (1) Employee Training, (2) Solving Human Relations Problems, and (3) Preventing Human Relations Problems. Each…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Education, Decision Making, Disadvantaged
Nish, William W. – 1978
This paper describes an undergraduate training program for psychology students in the clinical, technical aspects of psychology. The program is designed to prepare students for work under the supervision of doctoral-level psychologists without having to obtain graduate degrees in clinical psychology. The program was developed in 1971 by Georgia…
Descriptors: Career Development, Clinical Experience, Course Descriptions, Field Experience Programs
McNamara, Robert J.; Kamen, Charles S. – 1967
This study of the Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) was prepared for the national office describing the in-school programs funded and in operation for the 1967-68 academic year. It was based on responses from 1257 project officials representing an enrollment of 102,468 youths. There were 490 urban projects, 703 rural projects, and 64 "mixed…
Descriptors: Demography, Disadvantaged Youth, Enrollment, Federal Programs
Painter, Lorene H. – North Carolina English Teacher, 1968
The duties, problems, compensation, and selection procedures of department chairmen in secondary schools need to be clarified. Present duties of an English department chairman include developing an educational philosophy and curriculum for the department; suggesting materials and teaching methods; protecting teacher welfare; working with all…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrators, Department Heads, Educational Administration
Jelinek, James John, Ed. – 1977
The manuscript contains 48 essays commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Far Western Philosophy of Education Society. Topics included are cultural awareness; the teaching of values; philosophy and teacher education; humanistic education; existentialism and education; the nature of man; and the educational philosophies of Abraham J. Heschel,…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Creativity, Cultural Awareness, Democratic Values
Fedje, Cheryl; Harouff, Marge – 1976
The handbook is designed to provide assistance to school personnel in the development and operation of a cooperative occupational home economics program. It can serve as a guide to the teacher-coordinator as a new program is developed or as a resource for strengthening an existing program. Topics covered in the handbook's 22 chapters are:…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Advisory Committees, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
Swartz, Ned K. – 1975
A mail survey was conducted to study the differences among group ratings of the same instructor. A population of 72 teachers of differing background levels, teaching in the field of trade and industrial education, was selected. Each instructor was rated by one school administrator, a local supervisor, two teaching colleagues, all of the students…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Evaluation Methods, High School Students, High Schools
Heissler, John M. – 1968
A fact-finding survey based on a questionnaire answered by 418 Illinois English teachers examined the teaching of language arts in grades 7, 8, and 9 in Illinois. It showed that teachers get very little supervision, that they feel that they need improvement in teaching composition, reading, and the "new grammar," and that composition…
Descriptors: Departments, English Instruction, Inservice Teacher Education, Junior High Schools
Department of Elementary School Principals, Washington, DC. – 1969
The 16 articles in this collection discuss the professional negotiation movement and its implications for principals. Included are a series of articles from The National Elementary Principal that deal with trends in professional negotiation and the principals' role. The collection is directed toward principals with the stated aims of: (1)…
Descriptors: Administrators, Collective Bargaining, Community Control, Curriculum Development
Office of the Army Headquarters Commandant, Washington, DC. – 1965
This instructional guide to civil defense shelter management is given as an aid to shelter survival techniques rather than to shelter comfort. The basis, purposes, and organization of shelter administration are outlined, with instructions on--(1) shelter management, (2) shelter teams and functions, (3) supplies and locations, and (4) daily shelter…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrators, Building Operation, Coordination
Dunn, Charles L. – 1973
The author reports on a program designed to improve the skills of staff members in recognizing, and adapting instructions to, the varied learning styles, abilities, and affective needs of pupils in an ethnically unbalanced "pocket of poverty" elementary school. The staff included paraprofessionals and teachers of reading, mathematics,…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Doctoral Dissertations, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Research
Robinson, Boyd Fillmore, Jr. – 1971
A "gatekeeper" is an individual within a communication system who, through a process of selection, restricts the flow of information to the receivers. To investigate certain demographic characteristics and opinions which influence county supervisors (gatekeepers) in the selection of publications for dissemination to vocational agriculture…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Communication (Thought Transfer), Criteria, Demography
Vermont Univ., Burlington. Extension Service. – 1972
A five-sided program for helping rural families in Vermont is summarized. Help is being given to agriculture, the home, the young people, the underprivileged, and the community itself. The overall aim is a balanced environment. It is pointed out that change characterizes rural Vermont and that a need for a balanced environment is slowly being…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Economic Progress, Economically Disadvantaged, Environmental Standards
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