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Download full textWolotsky, Hyman; And Others – 1970
The second booklet in the series Career Development in Head Start concerns the third component of career development, career ladders. Job descriptions are given for each step in the teaching ladder--the teaching assistant, traits, tasks, and training; the teaching assistant trainee; the teaching assistant; the senior teaching assistant; the career…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Ladders, Career Opportunities, Career Planning
Mothers as Early Cognitive Trainers: Guiding Low-Income Mothers to Work with Their Pre-Preschoolers.
Levenstein, Phyllis – 1971
The Mother-Child Home Program was planned as a home-based, two-year cognitive intervention method. Women with varied incomes and education, both volunteer and paid, made 30-minute home visits twice weekly to help mothers become cognitive trainers of their own toddlers (starting at age two). Mother-child verbal interaction was stimulated with gifts…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Home Programs, Home Visits
Maurer, Nelson S.; And Others – 1972
The program outlined in this publication is designed to develop paraprofessional workers as competent helpers and aides to the educational staff. It is designed specifically to assist directors of occupational- and adult education and supervisors and teachers of home economics. The publication is organized in three sections, an appendix, and a…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Child Care Occupations, Curriculum Development, Home Economics
Linder, William W. – 1969
A Cooperative Extension Service action program in seven Mississippi counties, utilizing a nonprofessional approach to reach disadvantaged families with educational programs, is reviewed. Subprofessionals were utilized as systemic links between professional adult educators (home economists) and disadvantaged clientele. The report is divided into…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Attitudes, Behavior Change, Change Agents
Austin, Ann E. – 1983
The literature concerning the work experience of faculty members, administrators, and clerical and support staff is reviewed. The experience of these employee groups is examined in relation to: the characteristics of their work and work environment, the extent of their autonomy and power, and their relationship to their institution. In addition,…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Environment, College Faculty, College Presidents
Smith, Daniel R. – 1988
This master's thesis reports the results of a questionnaire survey of nonprofessionals employed in the reference departments of 31 southeastern urban public libraries. conducted to determine the use, training, and educational and work experience characteristics of these employees, this study was intended to serve as a supplement to the existing…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Career Ladders, Continuing Education, Higher Education
Moore, Mary Ann – 1988
The growth in computing power available to institutional researchers today is more than matched by the increase in the demand for information. A significant part of this demand involves minor variations of a few routine questions. Nearly all administrators from the vice president to the department chairman want information about "their"…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, Computer Networks, Computers
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1979
This manual was developed to help principals identify and monitor human barriers (intentional and unintentional social behaviors that produce negative reactions) in their schools. It is also intended to help administrative staff, teachers, other school-site staff, students, parents, and community members and groups become aware of school-related…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Intergroup Relations
LEIBROCK, JOHN BEECHER – 1967
WRITTEN BY A FORMER HOUSEPARENT WHO HAS THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR INDOCTRINATING NEW HOUSEPARENT PERSONNEL, THE BOOK EXAMINES WHAT IS REQUIRED OF MATURE, EFFECTIVE HOUSEPARENTS IN A RESIDENTIAL SETTING WHICH SERVES DISTURBED ADOLESCENTS. TOPICS ON TREATMENT INCLUDE THE TREATMENT TEAM, HOUSEPARENTS AND EMOTIONS, A HOUSEPARENT SPEAKS OUT, SO YOU WANT…
Descriptors: Administration, Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Delinquency
Fantini, Mario D.
The general perspective suggested by this paper is for the states to capitalize on the "new" educational money made available to them by Federal legislation to adopt a strategy for reforming its schools which includes (1) using the problem of the disadvantaged as the means for initiating widespread reform for all children, and (2) making…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Compensatory Education, Curriculum, Disadvantaged Youth
Riessman, Frank – 1965
This conference paper maintains that to more effectively motivate disadvantaged students certain basic changes within the school system must be made. Educational intervention should not be limited to preschool education. The use of indigenous nonprofessionals in the schools may benefit the older disadvantaged student by providing him with a role…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development
Brown, Roscoe C., Jr. – 1969
This evaluation is focused on the actual operation and results of five decentralized projects. The following criteria were used in the selection of the specific projects examined: the projects would represent different categories of programs, different geographical areas of New York City, and different allocations in amount of the total budget.…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Cultural Enrichment, Decentralization, Diagnostic Teaching
New Jersey School Boards Association, Trenton. Div. of Special Services. – 1973
This is the last of a series of four bulletins which provide salary guide and fringe benefit information relative to noncertified personnel in New Jersey's 604 school districts. The major portion of the document is given over to an analysis of the data contained in the three previous bulletins. This volume also provides an index to those…
Descriptors: Attendance Officers, Clerical Workers, Enrollment, Food Service
Burgar, Paul S. – 1979
A study was commissioned by a large petrochemical concern in order to validate professional degrees as a job entry requirement. The investigations considered two issues: (1) "Are activities performed by professionals (chemists and engineers) measurably different from the activities of subordinate technical personnel?" and "What…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Comparative Analysis, Critical Incidents Method, Curriculum
HIRSCH, JAY G. – 1967
THE DIFFERENCES THAT EXIST IN THE FAMILY TYPES AND LIFE STYLES OF THE DISADVANTAGED HAVE IMPORTANT IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF POVERTY PROGRAMS. ORGANIZED COMMUNITY EFFORTS WILL REACH AND BE MEANINGFUL ONLY FOR THE STABLE POOR. POVERTY PROGRAMS WILL NOT BE SUCCESSFUL WITH THE DISORGANIZED POOR WHO ARE ONLY MARGINALLY ADAPTED TO SOCIETY.…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Compensatory Education, Cultural Influences, Disadvantaged
