The paper id divided into five parts, introduced by the research rationale and a definition of the DACUM (Designing a Curriculum) approach to curriculum, learning, and evaluation in occupational training. As a process, DACUM is a group-accomplished occupational subject area skills analysis; as a product, it is a graphic representation of those…

Setting goals is not a new thing for schools. Most schools have devoted considerable effort to thinking through the outcomes they hope students will achieve as a result of their school experience. This training unit on setting goals is designed to sharpen school people's skills in deriving and refining instructional goals to reflect the current…

Numerous problems face the nation's schools. These problems differ widely in their content, in their scope, in the types of people to whom they are important, and in the intensity with which people complain about them. Many schools try to pinpoint the causes of these problems and to look for solutions before the problems themselves are well…

An overview of the issues, problems, successes, weaknesses, and implications of the process of preparing teachers for vocational education, the report contains discussions of the origin and evolution of teacher preparation, the professional development concept, nature of programs, management of teacher preparation, special problems, and future…

The curriculum guide deals with prevocational basic skills at the secondary level of vocational education and industrial arts. It addresses the subject in behavioral terms, as prominent components of the career education concept. The objectives presented are designed to be compatible with individualized systems and/or application to small and…

The Florida State Standards Council was created by the Florida Police Standards Act (1967) to improve the state's training program. The adoption of mandatory 200-hour recruit training has provided a program which is meeting local needs for more and better trained law enforcement recruit personnel; there is need for the development and…

The developmental scheme of the systems approach could be applied effectively to the design of foreign language teacher education. After the performance objectives had been formulated and the learning tasks analyzed and characterized, the design of the system could be undertaken. This would involve--(1) functions and component analyses, (2) the…

In a project designed to improve the recruitment, training and utilization of undergraduate social welfare workers in fourteen of the Southern states an attempt was made to arrive at a better understanding of just what the baccalaureate level social worker was to be. The definition was needed both for setting college curriculum objectives and for…

This handbook is focused directly on training possibilities to meet the dollar needs of older persons. Part I consists of a course of study designed specifically for persons seeking a supplemental income through a small, possibly home-based, business enterprise. Part II suggests a cooperative plan with local agencies or groups, particularly the…

Paper One discusses a training program for community mental health workers which was developed utilizing the "New Careers" concept in which the poor are trained to serve the poor. The intention is to share the lessons learned through the generic training program with others engaged in New Career Training Programs. A description of the…

All over America today Human Resources Development (HRD) Departments and/or Agencies are emerging. HRD is an adult and continuing educational process designed to help alleviate some of the adult problems of today with the hope that the future will be more rewarding for all. Today, changes in social and technological conditions are proceeding at…

Hearings on the bill to establish the Peace Academy are presented. The bill proposes to create an educational institution in the United States to further the understanding of peace among nations. Major objectives of this institution are to consider the dimensions of peaceful resolution of differences among nations, to train students in the process…

This paper describes preservice and inservice training for the staff of the Responsive Care Program. The Responsive Care Program was designed to facilitate the development of children's social and cognitive repertoires. The Responsive Care Model was first implemented at Syracuse University with preschool children. Assumptions are that optimal…

Describes and praises ways in which the Holmes Group report, committed to redesigning the education of teachers, goes beyond prior movements to reform teacher education. Urges the active cooperation of universities, granting agencies, politicians, faculties, teachers, and others in supporting and accomplishing the required changes. (IW)

Possessing generic or employability skills is vital in the current labour market. The vocational education and training (VET) sector, like other education sectors, must ensure its clients gain and develop generic skills. This volume of readings summarises NCVER managed research into generic skills undertaken in 2001 and 2002. The work covers four…