Basic steps in planning outdoor education day camping programs are outlined to assist and to serve as a planning guide for teachers. Day camping programs are defined as usually consisting of an outdoor grade level environmental activity which provides all students within a particular grade the opportunity to be exposed to outdoor environmental…

It is essential that priorities be realigned and that we return to the concept of education as career preparation. This should include the full range of educational endeavors from preschool through graduate school and adult education. Each state should have a complete plan for occupational education that includes priorities, immediate and…

These materials are intended to provide suggestions for the development of legislation for programs of delinquency prevention and treatment administered by state and local public agencies. Recommendations for both content and language are offered as aids to planning the improvement, coordination or unification of existing law, or on the drafting…

The Reading is FUNdamental program is funded by the Ford Foundation and sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution. It is designed to motivate children to read through experiencing the joy and pride of owning books of their own choice. Its purpose is to help develop and give technical assistance to a variety of model projects throughout the country.…

THIS STATEWIDE CONFERENCE, UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE INDIANA STATE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGES, WAS CONCERNED WITH METHODS COURSES FOR PROSPECTIVE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS. THE CONFERENCE MADE GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION, BUT CONCENTRATED ON THE EXISTING WEAKNESSES OF METHODS COURSES.…

This handbook includes assorted checklists, calendars, guides, and forms to help in managing a high school reading laboratory. The program is based on a diagnostic-prescriptive, skill-centered approach to the teaching of reading. Procedures related to the philosophy of the program, organization and storage of materials, record keeping, and testing…

In order to standardize procedures for corporate affirmative action programs (AAP) in compliance with all of the diverse federal legislation and regulations, the authors present an AAP manual format which has been approved by each interested federal agency and by the Office of Federal Contracts Compliance. (MF)

This article describes an operating college advising services model which uses paraprofessionals. The article recounts the ways in which the model has been implemented in one college, describes the model's salient characteristics, indicates that the model is research-based and, most importantly, includes replication guidelines for practitioners in…

Increasing numbers of employers are responding to employee child care needs by revising their benefit packages, work schedules, and recruitment plans to include child care options. This guide details ways to develop effective child care programs and policies. Section 1 of the guide describes employees' growing child care needs and employers'…

The purpose of this dissertation is to identify and validate the areas and indicators of quality international education programming in two-year U.S. colleges. Analysis of such indicators will provide colleges seeking to internationalize with a baseline of information from which to work. The validation process involved a review of literature on…

Describes an integrated guiding program in book form, Mathematics for the Teacher of Physics''. (DD)

The article describes the process of teaching abacus to moderately retarded blind students as a means of developing concepts of numbers, addition and subtraction, and money values. (Author)

The author enumerates 23 activities which she has found helpful in teaching high school students about child development. (HMV)

This guide is a joint effort from the Forum for Youth Investment and the Finance Project designed to help decision makers and community leaders both learn the importance of a good children youth and families (CYF) resource map and lay out the process of creating or improving a CYF resource map of their own. The handbook has been designed to…