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Humphries, Barbara B. – 1985
This report describes attempts to inform regular elementary teachers about the needs of handicapped students and to change negative attitudes about special education. Informal staff workshops addressed legislation, common characteristics of handicapped students, and successful techniques for incorporating students with various disabilities into…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Knowledge Level
Miller, Ronald C.; And Others – 1987
The report documents the evaluation of a New York City program, the State Incentive Grant to Improve Pupil Performance, in which high school special education teachers received training in general education curriculum and instructional techniques to fulfill a new regulation allowing high school special education students to meet general education…
Descriptors: Graduation Requirements, High Schools, Inservice Teacher Education, Knowledge Level
Miller, Ronald C.; And Others – 1987
The report documents evaluation by the Office of Educational Assessment of implementation by the New York City school system of the State Incentive Grant to Improve Pupil Performance which provided training to 5,000 teachers and 3,400 paraprofessionals serving handicapped students in elementary, intermediate, and junior high self-contained…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Junior High Schools
Kratovil, Jane; And Others – 1986
The model workshop manual is intended for use with state and local special education and sex equity staff. The manual contains a model workshop format, information on problems faced by disabled students, and suggested workshop activities. A sample workshop agenda, accompanying materials and resources developed, compiled, and field-tested at two…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Equal Education
Menges, Robert J. – 1985
The impact of 2-week summer workshops and weekend reunions on college faculty who participated in the Stanford Program for Faculty Renewal was assessed using a questionnaire completed by 123 workshop participants, workshop and reunion observations, and interviews with 18 persons at 10 campuses. About two-thirds of the respondents were associate or…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Zielinski, Edward J.; Bernardo, John A. – 1989
This investigation was conducted to determine the effects of a 10-day summer workshop using the Concerns Based Adoption Model concerning science technology and society (STS) topics and methods of classroom implementation on the knowledge, attitudes, and stages of concerns of the participating secondary inservice teachers, as well as student…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Knowledge Level, Science and Society, Science Instruction