For teachers to contribute to the development of the environmentally sustainable and wholesome society envisioned in South Africa's Constitution, it was the goal of this paper to evaluate the effectiveness of teacher development workshops designed to equip teachers with environmental and sustainability knowledge and skills in the curriculum. In…

Education has been regarded as one important aspect to reach human capital development. Several aspects of education have been researched, and an important part of them have focused on the effectiveness that teachers training programmes have over improving students' learning outcomes and improving teachers' pedagogical and methodological skills.…

An evaluation is provided of the staff development efforts of Reading Area Community College (RACC). First, introductory material explains the methods used to evaluate the work of RACC's Professional Support Committee, which included training seminars, conferences, and workshops. Next, three members of the Professional Support Committee provide…

This report describes and evaluates the Indiana Global Education Program which developed teacher in-service training sessions, dissemination networks, materials, and resource centers to strengthen global education in Indiana Schools. The emphasis in this report is on how elementary and secondary Indiana teachers used the ideas and materials which…

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title II was a 12-month project for the improvement of mathematics and science teaching in grades pre-kindergarten through 12 for the Austin Independent School District comprising approximately 2,400 elementary and secondary mathematics and science teachers. This document includes: (1) an executive…

This paper describes a 1996-97 faculty development program conducted for the social work department at Andrews University (Michigan). The training included the presentation of instructional theory, demonstration of instructional techniques, practice of the techniques by the participants, feedback on these practice sessions, and on-going support…

In summer 1987, the Maricopa Writing Project held two faculty workshops to encourage community college instructors' involvement in writing across the curriculum. Faculty from all seven campuses in the Maricopa Community College District and two educational centers, representing fields such as Accounting, Administration of Justice, Art, Economics,…

Because the literature substantiates that classroom teachers have negative attitudes toward vocational/technical occupations and votech students and that these attitudes influence pupils, an in-service workshop was developed to give teachers hands-on experience in an area vocational school, with votech students as their tutors. Teacher attitudes…

Teachers from the Martin Luther King Junior Elementary School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, completed a black vernacular inservice program during the 1979-80 academic year. This final report of the program was submitted to the superintendent of schools in compliance with a court order and is divided into four sections. The overview summarizes the…

This monograph has been designed to provide a detailed explanation of the organization and philosophy of the Ohio Sea Grant Program and the rationale used in each of its elements. Information is presented in six sections and nine appendices. Establishment of education program priorities and initial efforts are discussed in the introduction.…

Teachers from eight East Harlem (New York) day care centers were trained in a program called Literacy Through Love, that was designed to prepare day care center teachers to initiate family reading workshops at their centers. The five-session training program focused on stories, folktales, nonfiction, wordless picture books, and poetry. Each…

A final evaluation (two interim evaluations were previously conducted) was made of Project ICE (Implementing Career Education), which attempted to infuse career education into elementary and secondary school curriculum in St. Louis. While the earlier evaluations concentrated on the elementary level, this third one assessed the program's operation…

In October 1990, South Seattle Community College (SSCC), in Washington State, received Title III funds to establish a Faculty Development Team (FDT) which provided faculty with training, equipment, and other resources on outcomes assessment, the use of emerging technologies, multicultural education, and teaching and learning styles. This…

This paper describes the EQUALS teacher education program to assist educators in increasing participation of females in mathematics courses. The goal of the program was to increase educators' awareness of the issues surrounding the problem of mathematics avoidance among females, and particularly the future consequences for those students who…

A project was conducted to (1) demonstrate comprehensive career education in grades K-12 of the Bangor, Maine, public school system and (2) demonstrate to teacher educators at Husson College and the University of Maine the concepts, philosophy, and methods of comprehensive career education. (See CE 019 623 for the performance report.) Based on the…