This resource guide suggests ideas for implementing needs assessment, evaluation, monitoring, and planning for staff development programs. It grew out of experiences of 148 Georgia school systems that in 1974 initiated staff development programs. It maintains that leaders of staff development programs ought to be able to conduct a learner needs…

A needs assessment methodology is described which can be used (1) to assess the competencies required for functioning in a particular position, (2) to provide data for planning inservice and preservice educational programs, (3) to assess job performance, and (4) to provide information for personnel planners. Quadrants are formed using four…

This publication is a text and reference manual for operating personnel of both large and small wastewater lagoon systems with support from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). As a text, this inservice training manual is intended to be used in a correspondence course wherein the trainee or operator would read and study each chapter before…

This report asserts that counselors must become student advocates, working with students to assure that they get help to fulfill all their educational needs; guidance counseling has become a highly skilled profession. Most come into the profession full of promise, wanting to perform as student advocates. Student advocates are needed to fulfill the…

Unemployment of those aged 16 to 23 is due largely to inadequate job preparation. Most educators have little exposure to the world of work outside of education, and may unknowingly provide incorrect, restrictive or out-of-date information to students. This Educators-in-Industry Handbook is designed to provide G.E. plant representatives with…

The purpose of the project was to develop video tapes to be used as minilessons in the instruction of child day care center personnel. The tapes are of experienced and qualified teachers working with small children in 22 licensed day care centers in the Louisville area. Five curriculum units form the framework for organization of the taped…

Some of the problems encountered in nursing arise out of the multiplicity of preservice educational programs and the predominance of registered nurses (R.N.s) who are prepared below the baccalaureate degree level. To facilitate the efforts of nurses already in practice to earn a bachelor's degree, the Extended Degree Program in Nursing (ENURS) of…

An item generation procedure is described which was utilized in the development of Computer Managed Review and Examination courses for the education of nurses in remote areas. The major emphases are the processes of domain definition, item writing, and item edition. Specific discussion is presented concerning methods of item construction to assess…

The guide is part of a six-volume resource and planning program to involve the community in career education. A major concern of minority groups is addressed, replacing core academic subjects with courses designed to channel minority group members into lower level jobs. A community participation model is presented, designed to be responsive to the…

This training checklist, designed to assist in educating and training federal court personnel, was developed to assure that every new officer received all of the training required for the adequate performance of his (or her) duties. The checklist is not a lesson plan. Substantive material and information available to the trainer (and listed here)…

The Federally sponsored regional training workshops for adult education personnel in cultural/ethnic understanding were designed to increase the level of awareness of cultural/ethnic differences. A training design was developed following an analysis of the Culturally Oriented Teacher Education Materials developed by the Phelps-Stokes Fund, a…

This paper analyzes the planning and implementation of a foundation-sponsored fellowship program designed to provide urban secondary school principals with opportunities for inservice professional development. The discussion is presented in the form of a case study that uses data gathered through questionnaires, interviews, and participant…

Services were provided for 16 deinstitutionalized developmentally disabled adults (DDA) through the use of senior citizens as advocates. Program objectives included provision of 20 hours per week of supervised one-to-one training in daily living skills for each DDA and the development of helping relationships between the DDA client and the senior…

This is a guide for a proposed course to teach community college faculty members how to design, prepare, and evaluate an individualized learning unit (ILU). It represents a synthesis of the methods and techniques for developing ILU's that have been reported in the literature and the preferences and opinions of experienced practitioners in the…

Students in English methods courses must be encouraged to develop a multicultural awareness and to become concerned with "language arts" as opposed to "English arts." In order to be prepared to enter into and function as teachers in a pluralistic world, English teaching majors need to study and practice multicultural teaching strategies and to…