The enrollment of minority students is increasing while the pool of minority teachers is decreasing. The model program described in this document was used as a way to increase the number of future minority teachers, particularly blacks, for the classrooms in a large urban school district in Florida. The target group consisted of Florida Future…

This practicum was designed to explore the impact that exposure to conflict management had on emotionally and behaviorally disordered high school students. High school students who participated in this study were from the west coast of central Florida. The practicum objectives were for students to show a 25% increase in the use of conflict…

This project developed and tested an objective instructor assessment instrument to measure competencies of instructors who train Florida's child welfare and juvenile justice staff. Data from the literature review were used to identify and rank effective teaching competencies. A competency based instructor assessment scale was then developed using…