The Kw'atindee Bino Community Teacher Education Program provides field-based teacher training for Dogrib paraprofessionals who presently work in northern Canadian schools in program support positions, but who are unable to leave their home community to attend a traditional college program. The program addresses the failure of the current public…

This manual offers guidelines for vocational educators who want to develop and conduct short-term training programs for business and industry. The guide is organized in six chapters. Chapter 1 reviews some of the opportunities in short-term training, discusses commonly applied principles of competency-based training, and suggests a practical model…

This self-instructional module, one of 16 on techniques for coordinating work experience programs, provides preservice and inservice educational materials for teacher-coordinators supervising on the job training. The three goals stated for this module are (1) to know the types of information needed to obtain an appropriate training station, (2) to…

This paper provides a critical review of economic models of employers' decisions to train workers: what training is undertaken, where it is undertaken, and who finances it. The focus of the review is on the provision of job training to workers with no unusual training problems. The first two sections consider the nature of on-the-job training more…

Training after high school in the United States was studied to determine who is trained and the extent of training, as well as economic consequences of training. Data sources were the Current Population Survey (CPS) of 1983, the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) of Labor Market Experience (NLS Young Men, Mature Men, and Women cohorts for 1967 to…

A project was conducted in Idaho to develop, implement, evaluate, and disseminate a cooperative construction and mining training program to provide preapprenticeship training in construction trades, equipment operation and construction truck driving, apprenticeship-related instruction, and classes in more technical areas for journeyworker…

This handbook is intended to guide cooperative education coordinators, teachers, inservice coordinators, and teacher educators in conducting time-use analyses. Chapter 1, an introduction to the guide, discusses the issue of evaluation in cooperative education, the benefits of time-use analyses, and common objections to time-use assessment.…

This report proposes a training framework for community development and extension education in support of Integrated Rural Development Programmes in the Northern Region of Ghana. The first chapter clarifies the basic concepts of the Northern Region Rural Integrated Programme (NORRIP) and discusses the role of community development and extension…

In 1979, Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) legislation was changed to remove income from the eligibility criteria for Title IIC upgrading and retraining programs. In order to assess the impact of this change upon CETA prime sponsor and private industry council (PIC) activities across the country, a telephone survey was made to all…

The Vocational English as a Second Language (VESL) in Industry Project was designed to develop and implement a competency-based VESL curriculum to be used with industry-linked VESL language training. Language needs for limited-English-proficient workers in companies in the greater Seattle, Everett, and Tacoma areas were identified through a…

This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in helping students develop telephone usage skills. The guide is one in a series of core curriculum modules that is intended for use in combination on- and off-the-job programs to familiarize youth with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary for…

This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in teaching students to use a microcomputer to develop and manage a visitors book (a record of who visits a business). The guide is one in a series of core curriculum modules that is intended for use in combination on- and off-the-job programs to…

This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in teaching students the uses and costs of the tools used for various jobs. The guide is one in a series of core curriculum modules that is intended for use in combination on- and off-the-job programs to familiarize youth with the skills, knowledge, and…

This trainer's guide is intended to assist supervisors of work-based career training projects in teaching students the following aspects of producing printed circuit boards: planning and drawing circuit diagrams, using the equipment and tools needed to produce printed circuit boards, using an oscilloscope and probes, calculating the cost of a…

To help classify and map the field of administrative inservice, five generic administrative inservice models may be identified and their strengths and weaknesses determined based on what is known about effective inservice practices. The models are a traditional model, institutes, competency-based programs, the academy, and networking. A review of…