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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:13:00 EST
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- Effective Vocational Education for Students with Special Needs: A
- Framework--L.A. Phelps, T.R. Wermuth
- This document reports on a preliminary framework that can be used to
- examine and, thereby improve programs for special needs vocational
- students by improving both policy and practice. This framework
- provided the structure used by NCRVE in developing the National
- Recognition Program for Effective Vocational Education Programs
- Serving Students with Special Needs.
- MDS-112 November 1992 $2.00
-
- Emerging Uses of Computers for Education: An Overview of Tools and
- Issues for Vocational Educators--M. Lewis
- Public vocational education uses computers only in a limited way,
- due in part to limited funding, and a lack of appropriate
- expertise. This report explores feedback from a sample of
- vocational educators, which indicates that computers could, in
- fact, be very helpful in vocational education, if the barriers
- preventing their use were addressed.
- MDS-151 AUGUST 1992 $ 5.95
-
- Collaboration for Instruction of LEP Students in Vocational Education--
- E. Platt, J. Shrawder
- A rapidly growing number of youth and adults in the United States
- have limited English ability. This has implications for both the
- American economy and the educational system. This document includes
- interviews with vocational and language teachers. When these
- teachers collorate, students benefit. Vocational classrooms can be
- ideal settings for English language development, and improved
- language skills make it easier for students to learn vocational
- skills.
- MDS-157 November 1992 $7.00
-
- Collaborative Efforts Between Vocational and Academic Teachers:
- Strategies that Facilitate and Hinder the Efforts-- B.J. Schmidt
- This study reports outcomes of structured interviews to determine
- strategies that facilitate, and hinder, high school vocational and
- academic teachers in working together.
- MDS-164 OCTOBER 1992 $ 2.00
-
- Helping Teachers to Understand their Roles in Integrating Academic and
- Vocational Education: A Practitioner's Guide--C.R. Finch, B J.
- Schmidt, and S L. Faulkner
- This guide is designed to help the educational practitioner
- understand more fully how teachers fulfill the roles required of
- them in the integration process. For each of the themes, a number
- of subthemes address specific ways to help teachers understand
- their roles in integrating academic and vocational education. The
- guide is based on interviews conducted at 10 exemplary integration
- sites.
- MDS-276 DECEMBER 1992 $2.00
-
- Using Professional Development to Facilitate Academic and Vocational
- Education Integration: A Practitioner's Guide--B.J. Schmidt, C.R.
- Finch, and S. L. Faulkner
- This guide describes professional development approaches that can
- be used to assist administrators, teachers, and counselors in
- integrating academic and vocational education.
- MDS-277 DECEMBER 1992 $2.00
-
- Local Accountability in Vocational Education: A Theoretical Model and
- Its Limitations in Practice--B. Stecher and L. Hanser
- Local accountability systems, although often informal, have many of
- the same elements that are being incorporated into formal
- regulations. This document analyzes local accountability systems
- in vocational education.
- MDS-291 NOVEMBER 1992 $4.50
-
- Helping Vocational and Academic Teachers Collaborate to Improve
- Students' Reading and Writing Skills: An Over-Time Inservice
- Activity-- B. J. Schmidt, L. A. Beeken
- This report details procedures used to provide a Reading/Writing
- Institute for vocational and academic teacher teams. The
- strategies followed can serve as a model for staff development
- personnel.
- MDS-299 WORKING PAPER $ 2.00
-
- Students at Risk: Selected Resources for Vocational Preparation,
- Volume 2--S. Kallembach, Z. Burac, M. Coyle-Williams, J. Benesh,
- C. Bullock, L. Iliff
- This resource guide is intended for administrators, teachers, and
- others serving at-risk students. Approximately twenty-five percent
- of all students that drop out of high school and are at risk of
- reaching adulthood unable to adequately meet the requirements of the
- workplace, the commitments of relationships in families and with
- friends, and the responsibilities of participation in a democratic
- society. Vocational education can play an important role in
- increasing the opportunitites and successes of this at-risk
- population. To avoid duplication, many entries appearing in the
- first volume were omitted from this book. For a comprehensive
- listing, readers may wish to obtain the first volume (MDS-111)
- as well.
- MDS 434 September 1992 $7.00
-
- Two Worlds: Vocational and Academic Teachers in Comprehensive High
- Schools--J.W. Little
- Vocational and academic teachers occupy two separate worlds in
- comprehensive high schools. Vocational teachers have remained nearly
- invisible in the mainstream literature on high schools, despite the
- considerable attention devoted to the problem and prospects of a
- vocational curriculum. This paper attends to the place that
- vocational teachers occupy in the professional community of high
- school.
- MDS-438 September 1992 $3.25
-
- Annotated Resource List: School-Business Partnership--Compiled by
- TASPP (Technical Assistance for Special Populations Program)
- This guide contains selections of relevant publications, programs,
- and organizations.
- MDS-477 OCTOBER 1992 $2.00
-
- Annotated Resource List: Women and Girls in Vocational Education--
- TASPP
- The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1990
- contains a number of provisions designed to improve the academic and
- economic outcomes of women and girls in vocational education. This
- annotated resource list is designed to support efforts to improve
- the access of women and girls to high quality vocational education.
- MDS-478 $2.00
-
- Annotated Resource List: Supplemental and Support Services in
- Vocational Education--TASPP
- This annotated resource listing is intended for professionals working
- to achieve the goals of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied
- Technology Act of 1990. It contains descriptions of publications and
- organizations with a focus on effective practices for disadvantaged,
- disabled, limited-English proficient, and teen paernt populations.
- Resources for both secondary and postsecondary settings are included.
- MDS-480 $2.00
-
- To order:
-
- Send request and/or purchase order to:
- NCRVE Materials Distribution Service
- Western Illinois University
- Horrabin Hall 46
- Macomb, IL 61455
-
- For telephone orders call: 800-637-7652
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