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An Inservice Program For Developing Teacher Lesson Plans, Jane Kennedy

Masters Theses

This paper deals with change and the inservice program that brought about the change. A log is included that documents the process from the establishment of need, through three workshops that direct the change, to the final writing of a manual of yearly goals and objectives for each teacher participant.

The writer of the paper is an elementary principal of a small rural school. The faculty participants were both elementary and high school teachers who were deeply ingrained in unchanging teaching methods. Several had taught in their fields for so long that they felt no need of establishing a plan …

A Study Of The Utilization Of The Harper Community College Sixteen Millimeter Film Collection And Instructors' Motives For Using Those Films, Roger Joseph Rezabek

Masters Theses

This study examined two aspects of sixteen millimeter film utilization at Harper Community College in northeastern Illinois, near Chicago. The first aspect of the study dealt with quantitative film usage by each of the seven subject area divisions of the college. The second aspect dealt with instructors' motives for selecting and using a particular film in a given instructional situation.

The data on film utilization showed that approximately 14% of the titles in the collection were used an average of more than five times per year. At the same time, over 16% of the titles in the collection were used …

Students' Needs And Perceptions Of The University Counseling Center At Eastern Illinois University, Eugene Hughley Jr.

Masters Theses

In May of 1980, this survey was conducted to determine students’ needs and perceptions of university counseling at Eastern Illinois University. 158 students were surveyed using questionnaires. Three areas were focused on: (1) Students’ perceptions of the university counseling center, (2) Students’ needs for counseling, and (3) Students’ willingness to go to the counseling center for help with these needs. The findings suggested that students were generally unaware of the services offered at the counseling center and perceived the center as appropriate for help with educational and vocational problems, but less appropriate for personal and social problems. Students’ chief concerns …

Selmaville Community Consolidated School District No. 10 Board Policies, Vernon G. Shook

Masters Theses

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

The purpose of this field study was to develop a better understanding of the policies, rules and regulations of the Selmaville Community Consolidated School District No. 10. The Board of Education has authorized this revision of the District No. 10 School Board Policies.

Educational policy making has long been regarded as the most important function of the Board of Education. Boards have come to recognize the need for committing their policies to writing and organizing them into a usable manual. With this in mind the Board of Education with the assistance of the administrative staff and faculty …

High School Self-Contained Classroom: A Program Description, Dennis Downey

Masters Theses

The purpose of this field study is the description of a program involving a self-contained classroom for those freshmen entering high school who exhibit difficulty in adjusting to the high school setting. The program seeks to aid these students in developing confidence in themselves and their decisions, improving or altering negative self-concepts, encouraging feelings of accomplishment and satisfaction in participating in high school activities, enhancing relationships with others, and emphasizing successes in the academic area.

Chapter one examines the major problem areas facing students as they make the transition from the junior high to the senior high school. A major …

A Feasibility Study On Minimum Competency Testing, Cerro Gordo School District, Josephine Howerton

Masters Theses

In the Cerro Gordo Public School System, Cerro Gordo, Illinois, a feasibility study of Minimum Competency Testing was begun in the Spring of 1980.

The preliminary work included contacting Supt. H. R. Starkey, who with the Cerro Gordo Board of Education, gave approval to conduct this study.

A special survey questionnaire was distributed to the community and faculty. These questionnaires were returned to the school, which were in turn given to this writer.

The report will attempt to describe the opinions and feelings of the members of the community and faculty about competency testing as indicated in the survey.

The …

A Needs Assessment Survey For Parent Involvement In Ina Community Consolidated District No. 8, Ina, Illinois, Clyde D. Hayes

Masters Theses

The Needs Assessment Survey for Parent Involvement in Ina Community Consolidated District No. 8, Ina, Illinois was created to: 1) provide for parent involvement in program planning as mandated by state law, and 2) give the local board and administrator help in setting goals consistent with public needs and expectations.

To address initial needs assessment, teachers were asked to list a maximum of eight needs under each of five areas. The five areas were staff, building, equipment, grounds, and curriculum. The administrator also prepared a similar list based on his personal observations and past discussions with board members. From these …

Agricultural Education In Eastern Illinois - Transfer Of Learnings To The Gambia, Joseph N'Dong

Masters Theses

Dr. Robert Shuff my advisor, and I, decided that it would be useful that my field experience be geared toward finding out for myself how vocational agriculture is managed in institutions around Eastern Illinois University. The intent was to help me determine if any of the methods in use could be recommended for adoption in Gambian Institutions. My advisor arranged the visits as outlined in the log of activities in the final paragraph of the introduction.

Chapter one involves my meeting with Mr. Louis Christen, Director of Coles County Extension Service. During the interview, he described the history, function and …

Planning To Improve The Public Relations Program In The Mattoon Community Unit School District #2, Mattoon, Illinois, Howard Price Powell Jr.

Masters Theses

The purpose of the field experience was to improve the public relations program in the Mattoon Community Unit School District #2, Mattoon, Illinois. Since no one had been specifically assigned the responsibility for co-ordination of public relations, it was decided that a public relations committee would be established under the direction of the assistant superintendent of schools. I was in charge of the committee and was directed to report to the assistant superintendent of schools.

Since the Illinois Education Association had already set up a series of training sessions for Region 34, it was decided to take advantage of these …

Health Curriculum: Kindergarten Through Tenth Grade, Linda Kay Niendiek

Masters Theses

Objectives

The purpose of this field study was to develop a health curriculum for grades kindergarten through tenth grade of Teutopolis Community Unit School District #50. The reasons for developing this health curriculum were:

1. To assure a continuous program of health instruction throughout the Teutopolis School System.
2. To assure a program of instruction that follows a logical continuum rather than a repetitious one.
3. To assure that students are familiar with the physical, mental, and social aspects of health.

Procedures

Teachers in the elementary grades met on several occasions, in small groups, with the health education teacher to discuss what health …

Administrative Internship, Mt. Zion Community School District #3, James D. Price

Masters Theses

Ideally, the best approach to learning administration for educational institutions is to observe the work of administrators in the field. While it is overly pretentious to advocate ascertaining all functions of one office, it is possible to develop a working knowledge of the primary responsibilities involved in several positions, namely, the central office administration.

Under the direction of the Superintendent of Schools, the Assistant Superintendent, and the Director of Guidance for Mt. Zion Schools this writer has acquired such working knowledge. Although the basic theory for role development of each of these positions is transmitted in this paper, it is …

The Need, Development And Implementation Of A Student/Parent Handbook For Warrensburg-Latham High School, Roger T. Mitchell

Masters Theses

The project selected for completion of my degree evolved from numerous situations experienced during my first year as Assistant Principal at Warrensburg-Latham High School, where I was primarily responsible for dealing with student discipline.

Early in the school year it became evident that the existing student handbook was not as diverse or explicit as I felt should be necessary. In continual discussions with the principal it was concluded that a new student handbook should be implemented for the following school term. I operated through the remainder of the 1978-79 school year with the existing laminated folder type handbook, which consistently …

The Positive Approach: In-School Alternatives To Suspension, Gary Bryan Layton

Masters Theses

The purpose of this field experience was to develop what the writer felt would be the major areas or components of a workable program concerned with in-school alternatives to suspension. Upon completion of the development of the eleven components of the alternative program to suspension, the writer chose to entitle the program, The Positive Approach, In-School Alternatives to Suspension.

Due to the large number of out-of-school suspensions in school systems each year, and the widespread disillusion with out-of-school suspension as a disciplinary procedure, school administrators are beginning to develop in-school alternative programs to suspension.

The instituting of an in-school alternative …

A Fieldtrip Handbook For Mattoon Community Unit School District, Number Two, Thomas W. David

Masters Theses

Classroom teachers have traditionally used fieldtrips to supplement their curriculum and to enrich learning. To assist teachers of Community Unit School District Number Two to plan and to prepare for fieldtrips, a fieldtrip handbook was selected as the field experience for a Specialist Degree in Educational Administration. A report of the field experience and the handbook as appendix A combine to give the reader an in-depth understanding of the experience. The report was organized along the following lines: Introduction, Log of Activities, Selected Activity Analyses, and Summary. In the report the purposes and techniques in developing a fieldtrip handbook are …

An Examination Of And Plan For The Integration Of Audiovisual Services Into A Community College Learning Resources Center, Vicky R. Smith

Masters Theses

This field experience study paper examines the role audiovisual services should play as part of a learning resources center in a community college. The specific institution chosen was Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, Illinois. Moraine Valley is one of thirty-nine community colleges in the state of Illinois. Organized along a "cluster college" concept, the institution has worked toward providing a varied educational program for its constituents.

The Learning Resources Center was organized to provide support for the instructional program. Originally comprised of four separate administrative units, i.e., library, audiovisual center, learning laboratory, and study skills center, the growth …

The Establishment Of A Student Self-Scheduling System At Greenville High School, Bill Wells

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study is to explain the mechanics involved with a scheduling system which will reduce student schedule changes and promote a smoother start to the academic school year.

The study will not only trace the history of self-scheduling at Effingham High School beginning in 1975 but will outline the method used to continue a similar scheduling system at Greenville High School in 1978.

As a guidance counselor at Effingham High School starting in the school year of 1974, I was dissatisfied with the scheduling system. Not surprisingly, the other two guidance personnel plus most of the teaching …

A Five Year Financial Projection Of Dieterich Community Unit #30, Elliott Kent Tuttle

Masters Theses

The basic purpose for this paper was to study important financial information pertaining to Dieterich Community Unit #30 School District from the recent past, and the present, and to use the data to project the financial position of the district over a five year period starting in 1978-79 and ending in 1983-84.

The paper was not intended as a true research project which used considerable statistical information but rather a project that might produce information very useful to the institution in financial areas in the next few years. The information and data used in the study were produced primarily from …

An Analysis Of Procedures Used In The Formulation Of School Board Policies In Cerro Gordo, Illinois, Harry R. Starkey

Masters Theses

The purpose of this field experience was to develop a comprehensive and viable school board policy manual for the Cerro Gordo CUSD #100 Board of Education.

On August 12, 1976, the superintendent, being new to the school district, recommended to the board that it develop policies to guide the day-to-day operation of the schools. This task was assigned to the superintendent. Much time and effort were devoted to this project leading to the final approval of the school board policy in the late spring of 1980.

The author of this school board policy manual used the existing policy manual of …

An Investigation Of The Gerontological Educational Background And The Need For Training Of Practitioners In East Central Illinois, Kathryn L. Carey

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was two-fold. The first was to investigate the gerontological educational background of persons presently working in the field of aging. The second purpose was to determine if there was a need for and interest in further training, and if so what particular topics the respondents would find most critical to their interests or beneficial to their work. The subjects were fifty-four persons involved in serving the over sixty-five population in a ten county area within the East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging, Area Five.

A three page questionnaire was used as the investigative instrument …

A Study In The Development Of A Handbook For Student Personnel Workers On First Semester Freshmen, Alexander B. Russell Jr.

Masters Theses

Statement of Problem:

There are many reasons why a youth goes to college and there are many reasons why first semester freshmen do not pass the first semester. As a student personnel worker your job is to screen these students and find out a little about them, so some sort of program can be organized. Of course, there are advisement centers and Guidance and Counseling Programs at most colleges, but how effective these programs are remains to be seen.

It is essential to understand the first semester freshman from the first day they come riding into college on a sea …

Dr. John Milton Strahl: His Life And Professional Contributions To Physical Education And Athletics At Greenville College, John Andrew Holak

Masters Theses

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of the study was to collect and arrange information leading to a compiled history that would accurately record the life and professional contributions of Dr. John M. Strahl to physical education and athletics at Greenville College. Another intent of the thesis was to bring into focus the significant effect of one man on an institution of higher education, a national organization, and numerous students and colleagues.

Procedure: The historical method of research was used to compile the biographical information necessary to complete the study. The primary source of information was Strahl; however, extensive use …

A Survey Of Selected Illinois High School Girls’ Track And Field Programs, Sally J. Smith

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to assess the current status of the high school girls' track and field programs in Illinois. Track and field for Illinois high school girls' has been in existence for seven years and is recognized as a growing sport. Coaches throughout the state were selected to participate in the study and a questionnaire was used to gather information. Information was gathered concerning the initial organization of the girls' track and field program in each school, the percentage of male and female coaches, their educational and coaching background, teaching loads, other coaching duties, number of participants …

Curriculum Development For Cooperative Education, Ann Ferris

Masters Theses

The Cooperative Education program at Lake Land College strives to provide training for students in any vocational/technical career. This is accomplished by individualizing curriculum plans using courses available on campus and securing a training station for them in local business or industrial establishments. Title VIII funding for the school year 1979 - 80 provided an opportunity to develop curriculum packages for ten of the most requested career areas. These ten areas were identified by using current students' career choices as well as by examining the records of past Cooperative Education students.

Commercial vocational material catalogs, educational curriculum guides, and the …

The Transportation Program In Illinois School Districts, Lenard A. Defend

Masters Theses

This field study, which is an examination of the transportation program in a local school district in Illinois, gives special attention to what is expected of a local district by the state of Illinois. Many of those expectations are found in the school code as regulations for the local school district in its transportation program.

Though this field experience, which was done in the Shelbyville Community Unit Schools during the fall semester, 1979, is a summary of transportation practices in one school district, it does contain information of a general nature which may be of interest. Much of the information …

The Development Of A Responsibility Education Program With A Student Handbook Of Rules, Rights And Responsibilities For Intermediate Students, Lynne Pellegrini Padovan

Masters Theses

The development of a Responsibility Education program with a Handbook of Student Rules, Rights and Responsibilities for intermediate students was the object of this field study.

The approach used in the development of this Handbook of Student Rules, Rights and Responsibilities was the utilization of information gathered in visits to responsibility education programs throughout the state of Illinois conferences with initiators of responsibility education programs in other states, Illinois Office of Education materials, group discussions with intermediate students a study of Glasser behavior management theories and techniques, local and state directives on students' rights and responsibilities and the personal observations …

The Development Of A Student Handbook For The Argenta-Oreana Middle School, Michael Schmitz

Masters Theses

The development of a student handbook for the Middle School students of the Argenta-Oreana School District was the object of this particular field study. The handbook previously used by the students was merely an overview of the rules and regulations and was definitely lacking in detail and explanation. Our high school has a student handbook, but the distinct differences between the operation of the high school and the middle school would not permit the use of the same handbook for both buildings. It was through experiences of my four years of employment as middle school principal, directives from the board …

Mct - A Competency Test For Westville, Illinois, Eighth And Twelfth Graders, Larry Huber

Masters Theses

In Westville, Illinois, Minimal Competency Testing (MCT) began in the spring of 1979, after the writer of this paper and a colleague attended a meeting in Peoria, Illinois. This two day workshop focused on the Peoria MCT program and provided the initial impetus for Westville's developing program.

Westville's preliminary MCT work preceded our initial inservice day in August of 1979. Our MCT work in Westville concentrated totally on grades 8 and 12. At this initial meeting of all district staff members, we asked all present to submit suggested skill statements. A special survey instrument was used for this purpose. Next …

An Evaluation Of The First Year Of The Instructional Media Intern Program In Northeastern Illinois, Roger Joseph Rezabek

Masters Theses

This Thesis is an evaluation of the first year of an instructional media intern program in northeastern Illinois, near Chicago. Included as part of the evaluation is a description of the program in video cassette format. The script of the recording is one part of this paper. A copy of the video cassette is on file at The Audio Visual Center, Eastern Illinois University and with the author.

There were eight interns in the first year's program during the 1973/74 school year. Each intern had an immediate supervisor who was a media specialist in the district. There were three district …

The Library Skills Learning Package: An Evaluation, Kathleen H. Jenkins

Masters Theses

The evaluation of the effectiveness of the Library Skills Learning Package as a means of teaching basic library skills to students enrolled in Speech Communication 1310 at Eastern Illinois University is the purpose of this study. The Library Skills Learning Package is a printed self-contained, instructional program consisting of explanations and procedures for use of specific resources and exercises which require the student to use a source in order to answer the questions.

The evaluation takes two forms: (1) attitude measurement and (2) performance measurement. Two null hypotheses are tested. Hypothesis #1: Students displayed no significant attitudes or opinions, pro …

A Report On Curriculum Development Through The Use Of An Adoption Cycle, Charles Dallas Langley

Masters Theses

This project is divided into five areas. The first four areas are Sections I through IV, with the fifth area being the Appendices. Within this abstract the content of Sections I through IV will be discussed, followed by the purpose of the content of the Appendices.

Section I describes both the State and local conditions in which this two-year field study was developed. My project goal was to involve parents, teachers, administrators and Board of Education members in a systematic development of Curriculum on a kindergarten through twelfth grade basis.

I recommended we use an adoption cycle, which is a …