Factors that differentiate between first-year teachers who remain for a second year and those who resign after 1 year of employment with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools were investigated in this 1969-70 study of BIA teachers working from the BIA area office in Gallup, New Mexico (n=78), and Aberdeen, South Dakota (n=49). Data were…

Designed to treat reading problems which are beyond the scope of regular classroom reading instruction, the clinic program provides for short, moderate, and long term remediation. Diagnosis of pupils referred by the schools is conducted by a team consisting of a reading clinician, psychologist, nurse and speech and hearing specialist. Based on the…

The three primary objectives of the Project Conquest program are (1) to raise the reading ability of mentally able disadvantaged children to where they can function successfully in regular classrooms, (2) to improve their self-concepts and academic aspirations, and (3) to train regular classroom teachers in remedial reading techniques. Children…

Videotape and closed circuit instructional television (ITV) have been used for training Internal Revenue Service agents, and its use should be expanded. Experiments show that for every hour of conventional instruction converted to ITV a 25% time savings with equal or increased learning effectiveness can be expected. Although the capital cost of…

Prepared by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, this 1971 Migrant Education Program evaluation reports on the uniqueness of the migrant program in Wisconsin. The training of 5 teenagers in dramatics in the Lake Mills project, the open classroom program in Wantoma, the camping experience activity in the Oakfield project, and the student…

Hearings on child care are presented. Goals of this care include enabling mothers to take jobs by which they can support themselves and their children and improving the first five years of life for many children. Various aspects surrounding the setting up of a government support child care program include time factors, cost, standards and…

Presented are recommendations for research and development in the field of competency based inservice training for Minnesota coordinators of special needs, those people at the local school district level who are responsible for services to handicapped and/or disadvantaged students in vocational education. Recommendations are given in the form of…

Described is an in-service training program for faculty of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science which was designed to help faculty members implement a new curriculum, focused on competency-based objectives. An overview of workshop activities and an assessment of the results are included. (JMD)

At a conference for part-time staff of the East Anglian Region of Britain's Open University, role-playing was used to improve counseling skills. Two role-plays of counseling situations are summarized and discussed and the Role-Playing--Observer's Check List, used in the session, is appended. (JMD)

Shows how business letter writers at an inservice workshop improved their skills by ovserving their own writings from the viewpoint of others and by making their styles more flexible. (RL)

Community college business teachers' opinions as to their inservice development needs should be considered in professional development programs, according to this summary of the author's doctoral study. Five specific recommendations are made based upon the twenty-four listed study findings and conclusions. (MF)

The views of 12 principals from elementary schools across the country are contained in this collection dealing with inservice and preservice training problems for principals. (Author/DS)

In a study on the professionalization of adult education in Germany, the backgrounds of entrants to the profession and the need for training curricula appropriate to their working situations are examined. It was concluded that special inservice training courses in adult education should be offered in addition to subject-related and other…

An Ohio Department of Welfare special project involved teams from five disciplines to test curriculum modules for reporting, treatment, and prevention of child abuse and neglect as required by Ohio law. In addition, inservice training sessions for vocational home economics teachers suggested supplements to secondary curriculums to incorporate…

Reports a survey of the extent to which school districts in British Columbia systematically provide for administrator identification, selection, and training. (Author/IRT)