G. The state policy by which funds are distributed should be explicitly stated in the State Plan. Specifically, the formula for allocation of support to area vocational centers needs clarification. If support for these centers is calculated differently from that for other districts, this fact should be made clear. If not calculated differently, the method of allocation should provide for protecting the state's investment in the area centers.

H. Annual reports on the use of all discretionary funds should be provided to the State Board of Education. The reports should include program locations, descriptions, results and cost of programs. In addition, each exemplary or research project funded should be followed by an annual written description and evaluation. The public should have access to such reports.

I. Schools should legitimize occupational objectives by performing an employment placement function (Goal 3, Question 9).

J. Attention should be given to a plan for re-orienting the secondary school guidance personnel in the state to the relevancy and opportunities available to people without baccalaureate degrees.

K. Public hearings on the State Plan should be conducted sufficiently in advance of the time the State Plan is submitted for approval for suggestions to be considered.

L. There should be state-wide planning to determine the number of qualified teachers that will be needed at various times in the future. M. Long-range forecasting of the needs for administrative and supervisory personnel should indicate necessary programs to prepare or upgrade personnel.

V. Cooperation, rather than competition, between all agencies within the state must be achieved.

A. The Advisory Council and the Office of Vocational Education should continue to work in the spirit of cooperation exhibited during the spring of 1970.

B. Specifically, a system for coordinating the activities of the State Board for Vocational Education and those of the Technical Education Committee must be developed.

C. Local vocational and technical education instructors should hold combined meetings several times annually to review curriculum content and to discuss student problems or other appropriate topics.

D. Vocational personnel should acknowledge the existence of technical programs by including the results of an investigation of technical programs in the local plans.

E. Requests for additional space to house vocational or technical education programs should include a detailed analysis of any existing facilities which might serve both vocational and technical education.

F. A coordinating committee to review and approve new vocational and technical education programs should be established. Regional committees representing both agencies might accomplish this task, or this responsibility might be delegated to a state organization outside vocational and technical education. Evaluating the urgency of need for new programs, determining the appropriate instructional levels, assessing available or required facilities, and judging the relative efficiency of new programs should be the chief functions of these commit

tees.

G. The trend to include representatives from one agency on advisory committees of the other should be encouraged and expanded.

VI. Specific objectives for pre-service teacher education, and inservice education of teachers and supervisory personnel should be included in the State Plan to provide adequate preparation of supporting personnel and these programs should be implemented by the appropriate teacher education institutions in the state.

A. A relevant in-service program should be established for supervisors of local vocational programs.

B. An effort must be made to attract and to train and upgrade qualified teaching personnel and administrators for the vocational programs in the state.

C. Opportunities for re-training and advanced training must be provided within the state.

SOUTH DAKOTA

Chairman-Glenn A. Barnes

Vice Chairman-Harold Buckingham

RECOMMENDATIONS ON OUTCOMES OF 1970 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION OBJECTIVES

Secondary School Programs: Concerning secondary vocational education, it is recommended that:

1. The Trade and Industries programs be greatly expanded to meet the emerging needs for workers as the trend for employment opportunities moves from agrarian to industrial and from rural to urban.

2. The Distributive Education program offerings and enrollments be increased to be more compatible with the proportion of workers in this field.

3. Greater use be made of the "cooperative/part-time" concept of vocational education by all vocational services at the secondary school level.

4. Guidance counselors be given training in vocational education and be provided with occupational data, materials and information in order to help students understand the opportunities available and the training needed to enter the world of work.

5. The State education officials work to achieve a vocational student-guidance counselor ratio of 200:1. Post-Secondary: Concerning post-secondary, it is recommended

that:

1. An intensive recruitment program be implemented to encourage a larger per cent of post-secondary students to enroll in the Area Vocational Schools, and maximum use be made of all news media and public information techniques possible.

2. Emerging occupations pertinent to South Dakota be identified and training programs be instituted to help fulfill such employment needs.

Adult: Concerning recommendations for adult education, it is recommended that:

1. More comprehensive offerings in adult classes be developed in production and technical agriculture.

2. The area vocational schools expand their role in all service. areas in training and retraining of adults to meet the ever-changing and advancing technologies.

3. The secondary schools throughout the State assume a greater responsibility in the training and re-training of the adults of their communities for the world of work. Further, that special study be given to the ways and means by which the State Department of Education and the Vocational-Technical Division might best promote this responsibility.

4. A special study be made to determine the need for training in those occupational areas especially suitable for women, and further, that action be taken with respect to the findings which result in program implementation.

Disadvantaged: Concerning the disadvantaged population, it is recommended that:

1. Special programs in all services and at all levels be organized where feasible to train the disadvantaged in marketable skills. 2. Priorities be set in determining how and where pilot classes for the disadvantaged might be organized and conducted most effectively in the State.

3. Special consideration and effort be given to establishing work-study programs for the disadvantaged.

Handicapped: Concerning the handicapped population of the State, it is recommended that:

1. Teachers throughout the State (all services) be oriented to problems inherent in training the handicapped, referral procedures, training agencies, assistance programs, etc. for the handicapped.

2. Work-study programs compatible with individual handicaps be given special emphasis.

Special Programs: Among the State staff's top priorities relating to objectives set for 1969-70 school year were those related to (1) research and (2) exemplary programs. While a modest beginning has been made in these two areas, much remains to be done. Consequently, it is recommended that:

1. Additional funds be provided for research activities. Further, that a joint committee be formed comprised of representatives of the State Advisory Council, State Board for Vocational-Technical Education staff, teacher education staff and teachers to identify problems in vocational-technical education requiring research effort as a basis for sound program planning. 2. A thorough study be made of the kinds of exemplary programs that would make the greatest educational impact on the State's disadvantaged and handicapped population and bridge the gap between school and earning a living for young people. State residential vocational schools (not applicable).

Consumer and homemaking education: Concerning consumer and homemaking education, it is recommended that:

1. An increased number of programs be established to serve the needs of adults in those areas of the State designated as "depressed."

2. As in-depth study be made of the wage-earning opportunities for women in a typical community of the State and that a pilot program be established in that community to demonstrate student selection, training procedures, and placement on the job. Cooperative Education: Concerning cooperative education, it is recommended that:

1. Increased emphasis be given by all services to developing cooperative education programs at the post-secondary level. Work-Study (Not Applicable for 1969-70 FY) Teacher Education: It is recommended that:

1. Consideration be given to the development of pre-service and in-service training for Distributive Education teachers at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.

2. Expanded itinerant-teacher training services be provided to all services that will:

(a) Give more assistance to beginning teachers and teachers new to the State on an individual and small group basis (b) Offer in-service workshops through district and/or State meetings designed to up-grade teachers on the job

(c) Teach extension courses of a graduate level within districts of the State where feasible.

3. Closer coordination be effected among the staffs of the respective teacher education institutions and departments to facilitate teacher recruitment, undergraduate and graduate courses, extension classes in the field and research efforts.

4. Each of the cooperating colleges' and universities' teacher education departments add to their staff one or more qualified vocational teacher educators in order that one such person may be attached to each of the five area vocational schools. Such action would provide itinerant teacher education service on an area school district basis for the up-grading of in-service teachers.