Education & Pedagogy

The guide suggests cocepts and goals for career education and describes career development. It is based on an already existing career education program in Bingham County, Idaho and is intended for use in planning, developing, and implementing a program. The guide defines career education concepts and makes recommendations for implementing these concepts: career education, self-awareness, career awareness, career exploration, decision-making, career preparation, and career placement and followup. specific sggestions are also made concerning: the responsibilities of the superintendent, principal, counselor, building coordinator, and teacher; faculty orientation programs; inservice programs; and community involvement. Appendixes provide some teaching aids for use with community resource people, field trips, and writing activities related to career education. (PR)

The comprehensive career education staff development questionnaire presented in the document was developed for use in inservice education programs in career education. Detailed instrument development and a suggested method of administering the questionnaire are described. Three subscales are designed to measure variations among staff members of their affective acceptance, commitment, and change orientation. The questionnaire has three purposes: (1) to measure the magnitude of change toward career education, (2) to measure variations among staff members, and (3) to generate an attitude profile of educational staff toward career education and change orientation. The instrument should help local educational personnel to make more realistic decisions regarding their inservice programs. (Author/MF)

The pamphlet is international in scope and contains 32 brief news items and abstracts of 20 documents of interest to adult education and vocational education. The books and articles abstracted deal with the following topics: training and employment of mother's helps; vocational education; Canadian adult basic education; educational leave; career preparation; continuing training; behavior modification; training courses for management staff; involving apprentices in vocational courses; further training for foremen; teacher and student attitudes towards vocational education; personnel development; pedagogical problems connected with the personality of the young worker; quantifying program effectiveness; entry of young persons into employment; manpower forecasting for the engineering industry; education, unemployment, and economic growth; causes of labor turnover in the construction industry; factors influencing occupational mobility; and pre-vocational education. All materials have 1973 or 1974 publication dates. (PR)

This selective abstract bibliography prepared by ERIC Clearinghouse on Early Childhood Education is a guide to recent ERIC documents on bilingual education of children. Citations have been divided into four sections: (1) selected ethnic groups (Spanish speaking, native Americans, Chinese, Portuguese and Filipino); (2) migrants; (3) second language learning; and (4) general (bibliographies, legislation, media, multicultural research, teacher training). Citations included are from "Resources in Education (RIE)," January 1974 through March 1975, and from "Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE)," August 1971 through October 1974. There are 116 abstracts from "RIE " and 74 citations from "CIJE." Descriptor (subject index) terms are included for all citations. (GO)

The philosophy of the special education program at the University of North Florida is to develop a competency based teacher training program at the masters level. The program is designed to produce teachers who can quantitatively demonstrate they can produce academic achievement gains and desirable behavior changes in all special education students whether they are in self contained special education classes, regular classes, resource rooms, or being prepared to be returned to the mainstream. The program's basic component revolves around 13 generic competencies that are felt to be basic to the training of all teachers. Results of a study involving 30 graduate students support the validity of each of these competencies. (Author/SBH)

Practices and patterns in teacher education were explored at this meeting. Speeches are reprinted in this report on the following subjects: (1) the nature of educational alternatives; (2) the need for quality education for children of every race; (3) training programs designed for a varied group of professionals within a community of service-related professionals; (4) the importance of theory and practice in teacher education with emphasis upon the kinds of theory and their implications; (5) the issues of research, evaluation, and the knowledge base in teacher education; and (6) possible components of instructional settings in the future and the training of teachers for these situations. (JD)

The book illustrates the value of the arts to special education, describes arts education programs and activities, reviews research on positive changes in children as a result of arts experiences, and considers ways to incorporate arts education in personnel preparation. Possible contributions of art, music, dance, drama, and creative writing to special education are examined. Recent and in-progress research is reviewed. Features of various arts-in-education approaches are described, and three prototype programs are cited. The role of the National Committee - Arts for the Handicapped is discussed, and 24 model site projects are described. Current gaps in personnel preparation are identified, and suggestions for collaboration, training, and research and development are given. (CL)

College and university involvement in programs of continuing education or inservice training for practicing journalists is reviewed in this paper. Continued and increased involvement is forecast for the 1980s. Surveys addressing the need for continued education and surveys conducted to discover in-house newspaper training programs are reviewed. Also identified are schools that have been involved in conducting inservice training institutes or similar programs for journalists and professional development programs conducted by various newspaper organizations. A list of programs providing fellowships, scholarships, or grants is given. It is suggested that continued education for journalists in both professional fields and subject areas will benefit society generally and higher education specifically. (MKM)

This guidebook is designed to assist school administrators and teacher-coordinators in planning for cooperative occupational education programs. In addition, ideas and concepts are presented to assist other school personnel and laymen with the operational detail of vocational programs in cooperative occupational education. Major section titles included in the guidebook are the following: Definition, Types of School Plans, Benefits of Cooperative Education, Role of Teacher-Coordinator, Program Planning and Development, Advisory Committees, Surveys, Scheduling Options for Cooperative Education, Teaching, Coordination Activities, Forms and Agreements, Evaluation, Public Relations, The Role of Administrator, The Role of the Guidance Counselor, Child Labor Laws. The final section contains a list of references in the area of cooperative occupational education. (LRA)

This review of literature and research studies is designed to establish documented background for the development of a model teacher preparation program for reducing problems associated with school desegregation. The review is organized into three parts. Part One presents literature pertaining to the historical development of minority group education, school desegregation, and multicultural education. Literature and research studies supporting the enhancement of the desegregation process through multicultural education are presented in Part Two. The final section reviews the challenges facing teacher education programs preparing people to work in multicultural settings. A series of nine steps to assist teacher personnel in curriculum development is provided. (Author/MK)

A review of the literature on the American educational system as well as results from the author's national survey on curriculum articulation provide the basis for a proposal that would restructure elementary, secondary, and higher education in the United States. The proposed system would offer all American citizens two free years of college level training and would require prospective teachers to receive twice as much professional and specialized training as is presently necessary. The book covers a wide range of topics, including educational attainment and job profiles, the relationship of aptitude to achievement at all levels of education, articulation in public and private educational systems, accrediting associations, and myths in education. (Author/WD)

This report presents descriptions of the products resulting from a project designed to identify, synthesize, and interpret research and exemplary practices for preparing educators in preservice, graduate, and inservice programs to practice educational equity. The following four products were produced: (1) an annotated bibliography of resources for preparing educators to provide educational equity; (2) a collection of nine papers that examine different aspects of educational equity; (3) case studies of 13 teacher education programs; and (4) guidelines toward implementation of multicultural teacher education. A copy of "Standards for Accreditation of Teacher Education" produced by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) is appended. (JD)

This publication contains the text of 28 papers that were presented at the First World Congress of Comparative Education Societies, which was held in Ottawa, Canada in August 1970. The focus of the Congress and of the papers was on two main topics: the place of comparative and international education in the education of teachers, and the role and rationale for educational aid to developing countries. A brief introductory section discusses the purposes of the Congress, the major questions examined by the Congress, and future plans of the Congress. An appendix lists all the registrants for the Congress. (JG)

Educational objectives, which were developed during a 5-day workshop by vocational education teachers and which relate to career development, are presented in this report. (The workshop was designed to address that part of the North Dakota State Plan concerned with developing career education curriculum materials and personnel expertise for use in vocational programs.) Each objective, presented in broad and specific terms, includes an activity or suggested technique with ideas for resource materials/sources, where applicable; suggested subject area; and suggested grade level (secondary and/or postsecondary). The workshop agenda, four student forms designed for use in career development, and an overall evaluation of the workshop by participants are included. (SH)

One of twelve individualized performance-based modules, each based on a major competency needed by vocational administrators for effectively administering vocational education in local education agencies, this module focuses on the operation and functions of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, the functions of the state advisory council, and how to organize, utilize, and evaluate local advisory committees. The activities are primarily based on having the learner read a list of suggested materials and participate in a discussion or meeting related to the subject. Included in the module are an introductory section, terminal objective, summary of content, procedures, suggested resources, pretest, posttest, learning activities, and an answer sheet. (SH)