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Ciavarella, Michael A. – 1984
A project was conducted to implement six invitational counselor preparation workshops for the purpose of improving and updating counselors' skills and competencies in the areas of career development, guidance, and education. The following objectives were addressed during the project: to assess the present training practices of counselor education…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance, Counselor Qualifications
Rosica, Thomas C. – 1986
The papers presented at this conference review current research on effective educational practices for low-achieving students and identify those that might be applied to programs funded under Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981. A function assumed by several conference participants was to act as reactor to papers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Compensatory Education, Data Collection
Smith, Thomas J.; And Others – 1988
This guide to youth unemployment problems is based on the belief that a comprehensive system of program initiatives offers the best solutions. The principal focus is on vocationally at-risk youth. The first chapter defines and describes the target group, and outlines needs and appropriate responses. The second section describes the following eight…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged
Iowa State Dept. of Education, Des Moines. Bureau of Compensatory and Equity Education. – 1988
Iowa's guide to developing and implementing programs for the state's limited-English-proficient (LEP) school population addresses issues in developing policies, identifying student needs, and planning educational programs. The first chapter discusses the legal and educational rationale for providing equal education to the LEP population, outlining…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Manitoba Dept. of Education, Winnipeg. – 1984
This guide provides teachers with a business exploration curriculum for grade 9. The course is designed to introduce beginning students to the language of business, to careers, to consumerism, to economics, and to technology. An "Overview" section presents the rationale, describes the program structure, and lists program goals and…
Descriptors: Accounting, Behavioral Objectives, Business, Business Education
Wolf, James M.; Kessler, Anna L. – 1987
This monograph presents information to help educators consider how to determine the best age for each child to begin his or her formal schooling. Trends in state requirements for school entrance age are described, and research in areas such as mental age, reading readiness, child development, screening instruments, and experimental preschool…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Failure, Age Grade Placement, Child Development
Agee, Janice Lowen – 1987
This annual report describes some of the major activities currently under way across California to implement educational reforms. The achievements described focus on raising standards in California schools, providing technical support to school districts, and charting progress at the local level through a statewide accountability program. The…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Programs, Annual Reports, Bilingual Education Programs
Further Education Curriculum Review and Development Unit, London (England). – 1982
This report reviews the existing provision of caring courses in Great Britain, analyzes the curriculum of such courses, identifies curriculum overlap, and suggests an alternative one-year vocational preparation course. The seven courses examined deal with maternal and child welfare, prenursing and nursery care, personal health care, family health,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Course Content
Butterfield, Robin; Larvie, Colleen – 1981
This guide presents an overall plan for implementing Level IV of the Indian Reading Series, which features stories and legends of Northwest tribes in a supplementary reading and language arts development program for elementary grade Indian and non-Indian children. Introductory sections present the rationale of the program's language experience…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian History, American Indian Literature
Butterfield, Robin – 1981
This guide presents an overall plan for implementing Level V of the Indian Reading Series, which features stories and legends of Northwest tribes in a supplementary reading and language arts development program for elementary grade Indian and non-Indian children. Introductory sections present the rationale of the program's language experience…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian History, American Indian Literature
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Equal Educational Opportunities. – 1985
The curriculum guide for Ohio's secondary level programs in English as a second language (ESL) begins with background information on factors to consider in developing an ESL curriculum, including limited-English-proficient students' characteristics, the language acquisition process, skill areas to be covered, instructional goals for four major…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Difficulty Level, Educational Objectives
Young, John; Lum, John – 1982
A guide to bilingual education for Asians contains chapters on bilingual and multicultural education characteristics; the learner; Asian and Asian American learners; bilingual program designs, methodology, and classroom activities; instructional materials and resources for Asian bilingual education programs; and teacher competencies, staff…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, Certification, Classroom Techniques
Pfannkuche, Anthony; And Others – 1979
The manual designed to accompany a seminar for teachers concerning some of the central issues in contemporary foreign language teaching and focusing on how adults go about acquiring language includes materials for five sessions, in three sections. The first section covers language learning and acquisition in general, and contains a survey of the…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Course Organization
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Kosmo, Susan J.; Hartz, John D. – 1977
Materials contained in the 16 volumes that make up the Rural America Series suggest practices through which rural schools can meet local community needs and realize their potential for career program delivery. This handbook, one of five in subset C, describes a variety of school-based activities designed to assist students in accomplishing that…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Community Involvement, Community Resources
Lee, Connie W.; And Others – 1977
Five areas of concern relating to the Vocational-Technical Education Consortium of States (V-TECS) are documented in this report. First, following an introduction which discusses the purpose of the V-TECS system (to develop materials for performance based instruction), the organizational structure of the sixteen state consortium is presented,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Catalogs, Competency Based Education, Computer Programs
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