The purpose of this text is to offer information, including career development strategies, about sports officiating, an occupation that attracts little attention as a source of employment. The book presents fundamental techniques for building successful careers as qualified sports officials and illustrates how sports officiating can be taken from…

This document lists staff development components in the Cherry Creek Schools of metropolitan Denver. A brief overview stresses that the establishment of the office of the Director of Staff Development in the Cherry Creek Schools reflects a recognition of the need for more active participation of local school districts as well as all interested…

This workbook is to be used in conjunction with the Trainer Manual entitled Training Alcoholism Trainers. The program was developed to upgrade training design and delivery skills of inservice trainers in the field of alcoholism. The workbook contains all the handout sheets necessary for participant sessions. (Author/BMW)

This publication outlines recommended minimum competencies for training and development personnel, as developed by the Professional Development Committee of the Ontario Society for Training and Development. It is intended to provide basic checklists of necessary skills, knowledge, and behaviors for each of four categories of training and…

This guide, produced by the Division for Girls and Women's Sports (DGWS), is a collection of rules, guidelines, and essays by various authors on the subject of women's softball. The document is divided into four sections. The first section is on the DGWS and contains statements of beliefs and standards and membership listings for various councils…

This document is divided into two parts. Part 1, entitled "Undergraduate Preparation in Safety Education," contains in outline form statements on the following topics: basic curricula in safety education (including suggested competencies); faculty for basic programs; students in basic programs (including admission criteria); resources and…

Based on the premise that writing for video is not like writing for text, this guide tells the writer how to create a video script that turns particular ideas into powerful and effective video. Defining a video script as a "blueprint for a video," the guide takes the writer step-by-step through the entire process of creating a video.…

Presents training program components for environmental consulting and testing positions: (1) preparation, (2) conducting the training, and (3) evaluating the training. (MCO)

This manual was developed to upgrade the training design and delivery skills of inservice trainers in the field of alcoholism. It is geared for inservice trainers with little or no formal background in design/delivery of adult education programs, who spend at least 50% of the time in training activities. Contents include: (1) adult learning…

The importance of the counselor's or therapist's characteristics of empathy, warmth, and genuineness in client improvement has been established in a number of studies. This manual was prepared as a means of fostering these qualities. It was prepared by rating segments of interviews taped in psychotherapy sessions and giving examples of the…

These participant and administrator manuals are designed for a seminar on alcohol and safety. This seminar is intended to be a small-group, intensive planning session dealing with the problems of handling people charged with drinking-driving offenses. The participants should be enforcement, judicial, presentence, prosecution, probation,…

A four week course in television programming and production for very young children was attended by 13 representatives from ten countries in the Asian-Pacific area. The first part of the course was devoted to presentations by the participants describing the television programs in their countries and the presentation and discussion of about 80…

This book is designed to aid instructors or potential instructors in presenting information in an inservice training session so that it will be meaningful to all concerned. The book contains general information on the learning process, motivation of the student, methods of instruction, and physical facilities, and training aids, as well as control…

In the fall of 2003, PACER Center's Parent Partnership Project for Children's Mental Health conducted a survey to better understand what parents and families need from the children?s mental health system in Minnesota. The research team developed a survey questionnaire, a telephone interview, and a focus group session directed at learning what was…

Because of increased competition and a need for retaining and retraining valued employee in a shrinking industrial labor pool, there is a growing need for presentation skills training. Analysis of theories of adult learning, training styles, training formats, and practical experience in the field suggests that the most effective training format…