Adult Basic Education Administrator's Institute.

Overview & Synopsis

The 1969 Adult Basic Education Administrator's Institute, held at Montclair State College in New Jersey, was designed as a pilot national institute to bring together not only ABE administrators from Region II of the U.S. Office of Health, Education, and Welfare, but administrators and supervisors from outside the region, including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The general theme was Program-Planning-Budgeting System. This report from the conference consists of excerpts from a series of addresses given on newer developments in adult basic education, including: the scope and future of adult basic education; the psychology of the adult learner; techniques for discerning the needs of adults; the systems approach in education; instruction supervision; adult basic education job description models; teacher training; copyright laws; the function of the regional office of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; and adult basic education in Puerto Rico. (DM)