The necessity to provide instruction in reading is widespread in community colleges, due primarily to the liberal enrollment policies these colleges generally have. The program at San Jose City College uses the Davis Reading Test and the Iowa Silent Reading Test as part of its entrance battery and assigns students to either regular or one of two…

This study focuses upon programs designed for full-time paraprofessional employees in human service agencies given time off with pay to attend school. The programs discussed are those whose curricula are designed to connect with and supplement the participants' work and which also grant degrees. Questionnaire returns from 162 such programs…

Critics argue against differentiated staffing on the bases that (1) limited compensation ranges lower teacher morale, (2) the loss of the services of trained teachers and the impersonality of the large group organization lower student incentive to achieve, and (3) salary savings are at the expense of the quality of the instructional program. Since…

The "STAY" Program is a feasibility study of a proposed trimester year-round school program requiring that two-thirds of the students be in attendance at any one time. This study is intended as a technical guide for those school administrators and board members who plan to experiment with, or those who have installed, year-round…

The objectives of the program were to provide reading remediation and curriculum enrichment through the use of audiovisual resources and to train teachers in using new instructional media and developing new instructional techniques. The program was coordinated by a full-time teacher with the help of one paraprofessional assistant in each…

Fifty-one research studies are summarized in this report and the supplement to it. These studies concern the effectiveness of various aspects of the school program. The studies are classified by area of inquiry and level of research. Areas of inquiry are study of needs, curriculum development, child study, data processing, organizational projects,…

The intention of this paper was to propose certain principles and strategies for the "professional" use of paraprofessionals in education. It was stated that uncredentialed persons on school district payrolls are given few genuine opportunities to interact professionally with children, parents, and helping agencies, thus creating a waste…

This collection of 20 papers, initially presented at the International Reading Association convention in Anaheim in May 1970, is aimed both at those preparing to teach and those actively teaching. Part 1, Basic Reading Skills: Methods and Content, has three articles on word recognition skills, each aimed at different grade levels, followed by…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not short-term training (60 hours) could produce paraprofessional counselors, competent in counseling skills, who would work effectively in their home-community on drug related problems. Three distinct areas of concern were evaluated: the effect of the program on the trainees with regard to…

A look at college reading/study skills programs reveals the haphazard preparation of practitioners trained in child-oriented theory from which they are supposed to extrapolate methods applicable to adult populations. And since reading is often under the auspices of the English department, teachers are inclined to be trained primarily in…

To investigate the role of the teacher aide in second language programs, the California Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (CATESOL) has issued a questionnaire to teacher aides in the Title VII bilingual projects in California. The questionnaire and conclusions drawn from replies are presented here. Information is…

The levers or mechanisms by which reform in teacher education can be attained come from five sources: the school, the community, government agencies, the university, and professional associations. Examination of the pertinent policies and practices of these five components suggests that levers for change in teacher education may be defined as…

The purposes of this study were to develop a curriculum in early childhood education for the preparation of paraprofessionals for the staffs of pre-schools, and to propose strategies for its implementation at Essex County College (New Jersey). Tyler's principles for curriculum design served as a guide. A questionnaire was developed to seek…

This publication, part 3 of a three-part report, presents hourly wage rates and salaries or annual earnings actually being paid in the school year 1976-77 by 1,060 public school systems to personnel employed in 10 selected support positions. It provides data on the lowest, highest, and average hourly wage rates actually paid to individuals in each…

The Career Opportunities Program (COP), authorized by the Education Professions Development Act (EPDA), has not yet been fully assessed, but the positive results indicate that the participants and their society were enriched by it and such an endeavor on the part of the federal government should continue. (JD)