This handbook presents the minimum qualifications required for full-time faculty and academic support personnel at Illinois Valley Community College (IVCC). Section A presents Board of Trustee policies regarding: hiring professional staff, full-time faculty, and full-time academic support personnel; establishing competencies for faculty and…

This guide presents an equitable system for allocating non-instructional staff positions within the postsecondary vocational schools of Georgia. Chapter 1 first discusses the background/development of allocation formulae for three groups of non-instructional personnel: administrators and other non-instructional professional personnel,…

TO IMPROVE ELEMENTARY MUSIC INSTRUCTION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, 19 SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY TEACHER-AIDES ATTENDED AN INSTITUTE IN MUSIC HELD AT UNION COLLEGE (BARBOURVILLE, KENTUCKY) FOR TWO WEEKS, JUNE 19-30, 1967. FOR TWO HOURS EACH DAY THEY STUDIED THE USE OF PHONOGRAPH RECORDS, GROUP SINGING, CLASSROOM INSTRUMENTS, RHYTHMIC DANCE, AND THE…

THIS REPORT OF A NATIONAL PLANNING CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION FOR DISADVANTAGED YOUTH CONTAINS SUMMARIES OF THE CONFERENCE'S PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND TEXTS OF SEVERAL ADDRESSES. THE PANELS CONCENTRATED ON THE NATURE OF THE 1965 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT (ESEA) TITLE I PROGRAMS, THE EXTENT OF THE SCHOOL'S RESPONSIBILITY TO ELIMINATE…

This report is an evaluation of a pilot form of preschool education in Queensland, Australia. Following background information (Chapter I) about the sampling methodology used in and the administration of the study, the classroom environment and the teachers' work program are described in Chapter II. The effect of the early education classroom…

The described teacher inservice training materials are designed for the use of elementary teachers who wish to develop teaching strategies and organizational skills in bilingual classrooms. The contents of the learning modules in this instruction program are outlined, and the activities and resources involved in their use are described. Ordering…

This report discusses the views of early childhood supervisory and instructional staff regarding staff development activities across 11 Early Childhood Education Programs in Philadelphia. A comprehensive staff development questionnaire was completed by supervisory personnel, teachers, assistant teachers and aides in the Spring of 1978. Cumulative…

THIS REPORT IS AN EVALUATION OF A SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAM FOR DISADVANTAGED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN FOUR OAKLAND SCHOOLS. IN HALF-DAY SESSIONS THE CHILDREN WERE OFFERED READING, MATHEMATICS, AND ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES, FIELD TRIPS, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES. THE EVALUATION IS DERIVED FROM THE ATTENDANCE DATA, RESPONSES OF PARENTS, TEACHERS,…

THE CALIFORNIA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS TO DETERMINE IF THE RACIAL AND ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF EMPLOYEES WAS CONFORMING WITH STATE LAW. AT THE K-12 LEVEL ABOUT 75 PERCENT OF THE STUDENTS IN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE OF THE ANGLO CAUCASIAN GROUP. MEMBERS OF THAT GROUP HOLD 91 PERCENT OF THE…

AS A RESULT OF THE SUCCESSFUL EXPERIENCE IN FOUR PILOT SCHOOLS, IN WHICH APPROXIMATELY 350 AIDES WERE EMPLOYED WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF PRE-SERVICE ORIENTATION OR TRAINING, A GRANT WAS SOUGHT AND ATTAINED FROM THE U.S. OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR A PILOT PROJECT TO TRAIN TEACHER-AIDES. FORTY AIDES AND FORTY TEACHERS WERE SELECTED FROM FOUR…

A study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of six approaches to beginning reading instruction (basal, linguistic, phonic, programed reading, i/t/a, and unifon) in schools serving educationally disadvantaged children and to determine the effectiveness of lay aides in project classrooms. Subjects were approximately 4,000 pupils in primary…

Recent years have witnessed an accumulating volume of research in the areas of classroom management, parent training, teacher training, and training of paraprofessionals. While much of this research has demonstrated significant results experimentally, many of these approaches have yet to be adopted as part of the counseling and personnel services…

Developed to aid school-level administrators of the School Volunteer Program (SVP), this handbook is organized into five sections as follows: (1) what the responsibilities of SVP leaders are, including SVP resource person and volunteer chairman job description; (2) with whom SVP leaders work, including communication network, division of…

The first author set out to design and secure funding for an hypothesis-based program in a public school setting. The natural history of what happened to that study as it proceeded from design, to funding, to actual implementation, to final reporting serves as the case history of two idealistic evaluators' wildest nightmares. (Author)