In India, environmental education (EE) is introduced at various levels. Goals of this country's EE programs include: improving the quality of environment to create awareness among the people on environmental problems and conservation; developing skills to solve environmental problems; creating the necessary atmosphere for citizen participation in…

This course, developed from military curriculum materials for use in vocational and technical education, is designed to provide training in the skills and knowledge necessary to perform as a trainer in on-the-job training programs (OJT). The package includes information on the role of OJT, how to conduct training, evaluation techniques, and…

This booklet, one of seven publications of the Vocational Education for Special Students (VESS) program, contains models developed at Iowa Central Community College for work experience instructors, vocational instructors, and school representatives to use in training programs for handicapped and disadvantaged students. The models provide training…

As part of a nationwide effort to professionalize the role of sheriff, this manual is designed to aid sheriffs who are in the process of planning or conducting a training program. In chapter 1 eleven specific objectives are identified for a department giving a training program: (1) to provide each deputy with the ability to function by himself;…

This is the first of three reports geared to educator training and which encompass alternative approaches to collaboration and expert input, as well as a range of diverse topics related to adult learning. This particular document is a colleciton of papers presenting alternative models for collaboration that relate to various aspects of adult…

A study undertaken by a fourteen member consortium representing five schools each of medicine, dentistry, and nursing had as its objectives to: (1) generate, assess and collectively approve a comprehensive list of teaching skills and strategies that approximates observed and representative behaviors in clinical sciences teaching in medicine,…

A continuing education program in health systems management and administration, conducted for tribal and Indian Health Service (IHS) personnel, is described in this catalog. The first section states the goals of the program, which provides, on a national level, training to help tribes and tribal organizations administer health programs and to…

THE AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN TRAINING AFRICAN HEALTH SPECIALISTS IN THE UNITED STATES, BUT LEADERSHIP TRAINING HAS BEEN GIVEN LITTLE ATTENTION. SUCH TRAINING SHOULD HELP THEM OVERCOME DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MODERN TECHNOLOGY AND TRADITIONAL CUSTOMS, DEFINE ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE, RESOLVE STATUS DIFFERENCES, AND GET COOPERATIVE…

EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP IN HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATIONS MUST BE GOAL-ORIENTED. HIGH-LEVEL LEADERSHIP MUST DEFINE ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS AND CHANNEL ACTIVITIES TO ACHIEVE THESE GOALS. STUDIES WERE MADE BY HUMRRO IN MILITARY LEADERSHIP AND SMALL GROUP EFFECTIVENESS. IT WAS FOUND THAT POTENTIAL SQUAD LEADERS, SELECTED FOR ABOVE-AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE AND…

An integrated job preparation model with development rationale is presented for use by social action agencies in serving Puerto Rican/Hispanic youth clientele. Findings of background research to isolate demographic and cultural variables of the primary target audiences are summarized. An organizational evaluation is also described which studied…

For more than twenty years controversy has existed in the Armed Forces over the kind of knowledge and training electronic maintenance technicians should have. The Navy and Air Force have conducted research projects in this area, and for the Army the Human Resources Research Organization (HumRRO) has developed several methods to improve the…

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…