Workshops, committees, teams, and study groups are a regular part of an educator's professional life, and any educator can find themselves in the facilitator role, with a responsibility to aid the group in achieving its goals. "The Effective Facilitator's Handbook" is here to help. Professional development expert Cathy A. Toll has…

This guidebook aspires to build a community where learning for sustainable development takes place everywhere for everyone as an ongoing practice. It introduces you to "Reflect-Share-Act," a process to discover and define sustainable development in your own contexts together with others in your community. The guide compiles resources…

The world of work is being impacted by a fourth industrial revolution, transformed by artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. With forecasts suggesting large shares of workers, displaced by automation, in need of upskilling/reskilling, the design of active skills policies is necessary. Conventional methods used to anticipate…

A guide for planning a library workshop is presented in five parts: (1) the workshop planners, (2) planning the program, (3) the day of the workshop, (4) evaluation and followup, and (5) information sources. The bulk of the guide is part 2, planning the program, which covers needs assessment, objectives, audience definition, selection of time and…

This is a revision of a guide (IR 003 265) for planning a library workshop. It is presented in five parts: (1) the workshop planners, (2) planning the program, (3) the day of the workshop, (4) evaluation and followup, and (5) information sources. The major part of the guide is concerned with program planning and covers needs assessment,…

This concise guide to adult education activities begins with a simplified survey of adult learning theory and moves step by step through the workshop process, from the earliest planning stage to the final evaluation. It relates social science theory to practical use in a variety of institutional settings, and is intended as a resource for the…

In an Ohio Library Association guide for planning workshops, detailed instructions are given for forming a committee, holding meetings, selecting and paying the speaker, and developing the program. Budgets and fees are discussed along with information on federal funding. Practical guidance is also provided about equipment, table arrangements,…

This package of handouts and transparencies is one of a set of six packages of consultants' materials developed to serve as a guide for consulting staff presenting career education workshops in the following areas: Counselors, primary K-3, junior and senior high, intermediate, and administrators. The 17 handouts and 3 transparencies are to be…

This manual is designed to facilitate efficient director preparation for the Project on Team Teaching Modular Workshop. Although the director has many set responsibilities throughout the workshop, there are also many options left open in workshop design. Responsibilities are listed and options explained after an introduction. Certain workshop…

Presented is a guide providing a step by step procedure and time line for planning and conducting inservice workshops for teachers of the gifted and talented. Considered are long range planning for an inservice training program, preparing materials for use in workshops, planning for individual workshops, conducting the workshop, materials used in…

The workshop staff packet contains nine worksheets designed to assist adult educators in organizing and coordinating their own work and that of the workshop staff and consultants. Worksheets included are: (1) Needs Assessment/Problem Analysis and Competency Models; (2) General and Specific Learning Objectives; (3) Learning Resources…

Outlined in the workbook are workshops designed for training front-line staff in writing individualized client plans for developmentally disabled persons. It is noted that workshops are taught by audio tape along with an associate instructor in small groups of four to eight individuals. Stressed are four basic goal planning strategies: involving…

This guide to inservice education is designed to help people in school systems (teachers, administrators, counselors, evaluators, and paraprofessionals) with the selection and use of the skills and knowledge of those university faculty committed to inservice education. Consultants are listed who are willing to serve as leaders of workshops,…

This career education consultant package, designed for use with staff at the intermediate grade level, is one of a set of six packages of consultants' materials developed to serve as a guide for consulting staff presenting career education workshops in the following areas: Conselor's, primary K-3, intermediate, junior and senior high, and…

This career education consultant package for use with school administrators is one of a set of six packages of consultants' materials developed to serve as a guide for consulting staff presenting career education workshops in the following areas: Counselors, primary K-3, junior and senior high, intermediate, and administrators. (The "Career…