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Newsletter Vol.8 No.5 1980, National Center For The Study Of Collective Bargaining In Higher Education And The Professions

National Center Newsletters

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Newsletter Vol.8 No.4 1980, National Center For The Study Of Collective Bargaining In Higher Education And The Professions

National Center Newsletters

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Eastern Alumnus Vol. 34 No. 1 (Fall 1980), Eastern Illinois University Alumni Association

Eastern Alumnus Volume 34 (1980-1981)

1980 Homecoming; Alumni Support Tarble Arts Center; Alumni Leaders Take Office; Zia Bowl Highlights; etc.

Volume 14 Number 1, Eiu College Of Education

Eastern Education Journal

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Newsletter Vol.8 No.3 1980, National Center For The Study Of Collective Bargaining In Higher Education And The Professions

National Center Newsletters

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Eastern Alumnus Vol. 33 No. 4 (Summer 1980), Eastern Illinois University Alumni Association

Eastern Alumnus Volume 33 (1979-1980)

Diamond Jubilee Edition: EIU Alumni Association Has a Birthday; An Open Letter from the Association President; etc.

Newsletter Vol.8 No.2 1980, National Center For The Study Of Collective Bargaining In Higher Education And The Professions

National Center Newsletters

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Volume 13 Number 2, Eiu College Of Education

Eastern Education Journal

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Eastern Alumnus Vol. 33 No. 3 (Spring 1980), Eastern Illinois University Alumni Association

Eastern Alumnus Volume 33 (1979-1980)

Alumni Weekend/80 Planned; Eastern Graduate Trades GM for Geology; Community, Industries Support Eastern Arts Center; Eastern's New AD; Women's Teams Win; etc.

Newsletter Vol.8 No.1 1980, National Center For The Study Of Collective Bargaining In Higher Education And The Professions

National Center Newsletters

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Career Awareness Program K-8, North Wayne Community Unit #200 Schools, Richard T. Wilson

Masters Theses

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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 …

Eastern Alumnus Vol. 34 No. 2 (Winter 1980-81), Eastern Illinois University Alumni Association

Eastern Alumnus Volume 34 (1980-1981)

97 Counties on EIU Campus; An Easterner in Kuwait; etc.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …