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White, Tod – Training and Development Journal, 1979
Focuses on nine major activity areas of training and development: analyzing needs and evaluating results, developing training programs and materials, delivering training and development programs and services, advising and counseling, managing training activities, maintaining organization relationships, researching to advance the training field,…
Descriptors: Activities, Job Skills, Leadership, Opinions
Slaight, Craig, Ed. – 1996
This collection of new plays for young actors comes from the repertoire of the Young Conservatory, a professional theater training program for young people ages 8 to 18 at the American Conservatory Theater. Each of the five plays in the collection was developed in this way: an outstanding professional playwright is invited to create a new play…
Descriptors: Acting, Audience Awareness, Drama, Dramatics
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Star, Barbara – Journal of Education for Social Work, 1979
Research findings of the past decade related to the use of videotape self-confrontation in educational programs of social work, psychological counseling, and teaching are reviewed, and the effectiveness of self-confrontation as a tool for training is discussed. Elements necessary in a successful program are identified. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Feedback, Higher Education, Modeling (Psychology), Observational Learning
Sutton, Dave – 1995
This book is designed to help novices get started in providing services to patrons of their library. By separating professional tasks from others, an indication is made when expertise is needed above and beyond the use of common sense and natural organizational skills. The book covers the realm of a librarian's responsibilities, offering advice on…
Descriptors: Library Administration, Library Circulation, Library Collection Development, Library Personnel
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Lafargue, M.; And Others – European Journal of Engineering Education, 1986
Points out the need to provide engineers with training in human relations. Describes the process of developing a document defining the problem and steps to be taken toward solution, submitted to students for their evaluation. (JM)
Descriptors: College Science, Curriculum Development, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries
Joyce, Bruce R.; Showers, Beverly – 1983
Mastering alternative models of teaching helps build competence and effectiveness in the repertoire of classroom teachers. However, because the attainment of new skills does not by itself ensure transfer to classroom use, teacher training programs should incorporate study of the transfer process itself, reinforced by team effort. Accordingly,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Interprofessional Relationship, Methods Research
Mazzatenta, Ernest – 1983
To develop a profile of inhouse, company teachers of technical communication, a six-page questionnaire was administered to technical writing teachers. Of the 52 respondents, 24 offered both formal inhouse courses and informal training while 22 conducted only formal courses. Titles, course outlines, and other survey comments revealed that many…
Descriptors: Business, Course Content, Educational Research, Inservice Education
Kaufman, Scott Paul; Hunter, Donna – 1991
All individuals desiring employment as substitute teachers for the Oklahoma City Public Schools are required to attend a professional substitute teacher institute. Certified and noncertified applicants are eligible; retired teachers who have been employed within the previous 3 years are exempt. Curriculum and instruction for the institute,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Job Training
Jackson, Jeanne, Ed. – 1988
The Occupational Therapy Independent Living Skills (Transition) Program was established to serve students with severe behavioral, learning, and physical disabilities and to serve as a setting for occupational therapist training in transition programming. This manual describes this model pupil personnel training program, which prepares occupational…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Daily Living Skills, Delivery Systems, High Schools
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Sales, T. Bradford; Fox, C. Lynn – Education, 1982
Outlines the skills necessary (objectivity, effective parental involvement, assessment preparation, implementing a least-biased assessment, analyzing the information) for a multidisciplinary team to make appropriate educational assessments of minority students as mandated by the Education for All Children Handicapped Act (Public Law 94-142).…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Educational Diagnosis, English (Second Language), Ethnic Bias
Dowd, Tom; And Others – 1994
Boys Town, founded in 1917 by Father Edward Flanagan, attempts to respond to the challenges faced by today's children and youth with its own child care model, called the Boys Town Family Home Program. This model is based on family-style nurturing, behavioral-based instruction, and a "systems" approach to staff training and development.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Abuse