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A Descriptive Study Of Ninth Grade Reading Programs In Schools Of The Second Education District Of Kentucky, Eloyse Jean Groves

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Questionnaries concerning the nature of the state-required Ninth Grade Reading Programs were sent to principals of secondary schools in the Second Education District of Kentucky. The program, which had been in effect for two years, was studied as to the different organization, curriculum, students, faculty, resources, conclusions, and projections of each school involved an then compared to a standard reading program. It was found that Kentucky is a forerunner in the area of state requirements as to provision for help in reading for ninth grade students. The type of referral and physical setting of the program were both found to …

"The Humanistic Teacher: A Student Directed Exploration", A Syllabus In Human Relations And A Report On Its Use, Christina Tischler Gibbons

MA TESOL Collection

This paper consists of two parts: a syllabus for a course in Human Relations entitled "The Humanistic Teacher: A Student Directed Exploration", and introductory materials which describe the motivations for planning the course, its goals, its testing and evaluation in 1974-75, and recommendations for its further use. The course is specifically designed for use in the Master of Arts in Teaching program of the School for International Training. Its primary goal is to help students focus on the meaning of being a humanistic teacher. It is organized so that students can work by themselves or in study groups but without …

The Vocational Preference Inventory As A Measure Of Probable Teaching Effectiveness, Landon A. Fitch

All Master's Theses

This paper is a report of a study investigating the potential of the Vocational Preference Inventory as an instrument to predict the probable effectiveness of students preparing to be teachers. The Vocational Preference Inventory was given to effective teachers and to student teachers who were rated most and least effective by their college supervisors. The resultant profiles from the Vocational Preference Inventory scores were compared. The profiles and the profile interpretations of the effective teachers and the most effective student teachers were much more similar than those of the effective teachers and the least effective student teachers.

It is strongly …

The University Can't Train Teachers: A Symposium Of School Administrators Discuss School-Based Undergraduate Education For Teachers, Paul A. Olson, Larry Freeman, James Bowman, Jan Pieper

Department of English: Faculty Publications

CONTENTS

Introductory Letter

Discussion Summary

Acknowledgments

List of Participants

Educational Reform and Informational Needs

"Manpower: Supply and Demand for Teaching Personnel" -- Leo Shapiro

The Idea of Community and the Education of Teachers

"The Transmission of American Culture" -- George D. Spindler

"In the United States District Court for the Eastern Division of Texas, Tyler Division, Memorandum Opinion Regarding the San Felipe Del Rio Consolidated Independent School District"

The Use of Higher Education Personnel in School-Based Undergraduate Teacher-Training Programs

Appendix-"Research Sharing"

School-Based Teacher-Training Centers ."The Portland Urban Teacher Education Project:

New Context for Teacher Preparation" -- John L. Parker

Certification; …

An Analysis Of The Attitudes Of Student Teachers Toward Self And Others Following Student Teaching In Two Contrasted Student Teaching Environments, David N. Kelsey

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Systems Approach To Higher Education Management And Its Application To An Orientation Program, Russell Ried Mcclure

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the School of Education at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Higher Education by Russell Ried McClure on July 25, 1969.

The New Course At Muresk Agricultural College, D K. Bartels

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

THE original aim of all the agricultural colleges in Australia was to train young men to be farmers.

Over the years, and particularly in recent years, the colleges in the Eastern States found that less and less of their students were coming from the farming community, and a diminishing number were returning to farming.

Muresk Agricultural College, W Southern

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

M URESK Agricultural College was established by the West Australian Government in 1926, on one of the earliest settled properties in the Northam district.

Analysis Of Public School Music Curricula Of The State Teachers Colleges In The United States, Louise Jackson Funk

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

There is very little literature pertaining to the Public School Music curriculas of the state teachers colleges in the United States.

Various questions, however, have arisen in each institution relative to the required music courses and to the number of hours that should be required of a public school music major. Music teachers disagree as to the text to be used in music courses. Of all the various public school music texts available it is difficult to find any one text that is most worthy of recognition as there seem to be many of equal value. Not only is there …

The Development Of The Commercial Curricula Of Teacher Training Institutions, Joseph Compton

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study is to trace the development of the curricula for commercial teacher training in the United States in order to discover its implications for the academic and professional preparation of teachers of business subjects. An attempt will be made to trace the evolution of secondary business education in order to discover the relationships existing between the aims and curricula of secondary business education on the one hand, and the preparation of business teachers and the curricula devised for their training on the other. Recommendations based upon the findings, will be made for the purpose of harmonizing …