Philosophy and objectives of the Wave Hill/Fordham University Environmental Education Program are recounted. Use of a teacher-training workshop provides on-the-job experience both in teaching methods and factual information related to the environment. (BL)

A one-day in-service workshop was held for elementary and middle school teachers in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Each workshop consisted of large-group presentations followed by small-group discussions by participants, who were divided into nine groups. Presentations concerned techniques to aid motivation among multicultural and multiracial…

Described are the objectives and results of the Cleveland State University summer workshop titled "Reasoning for Children," designed to provide inservice training in teaching philosophical constructs to elementary age children. (SBH)

A workshop was designed to introduce experiences with chemistry at a level appropriate to elementary school teachers with little/no background in chemistry and presented so teachers learned to do hands-on experiments appropriate for their students. A list of 16 activities (with brief descriptions) used in the workshop is included. (Author/JN)

Describes a writing workshop in which teachers work with clay and write about their products. (HTH)

Teachers in an inservice science program develop self-awareness and sensitivity to student needs and feelings. (Editor)

An increase in verbal and physical encounters among elementary students led to the implementation of a conflict resolution program to assist teachers and students in solving interpersonal problems. The project was implemented over 8 months in grades three through five in a private elementary school. The goal of the project was to teach students…

Teams of elementary teachers, school administrators, and school board members from seven representative school districts in Los Angeles County (California) participated in a 3-week summer institute (1983) with the aim of learning to plan and implement systematic discipline-based art programs that included aesthetic, critical, historical, and…

Describes workshop designed to aid kindergarten and first grade teachers in assessing a child's educational disability, deciding what to do about it and when to use referral. Concentrated on skills for evaluating the child's motor ability, intellegence level and emotional development. Also taught behavior modification techniques and remediation…

The manual describes the Maximize Talent program, a low budget offering for elementary gifted students. The program is said to rely on community tutors to provide creativity and problem solving experiences. Sections focus on the background (issues and problems in gifted education); program development (including sample budgets and job…

This description of the development of the Mansfield, Illinois, K-6 career awareness model program for elementary school students covers the following areas: program objectives, inservice training and workshops for personnel, curriculum outlines of occupational clusters, and the integration of career development and subject matter concepts. (MF)

"Image to Word--Word to Image" is a professional development workshop which is part of the Pacific Center for the Arts and Humanities in Education (PCAHE) at the Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL). The program combines the cultural reality of the islands with educational research to create a vision in which visual arts…

To encourage teachers to use the language-experience approach (LEA) in teaching reading-language skills, a workshop was conducted in which teachers participated in a language-experience lesson. Participants were asked to discuss a controversial topic of current interest; during group discussion, ideas and vocabulary were evoked from the group.…

The Children's Creative Response to Conflict Program conducts workshops that help participants deal with conflict situations. During the workshop sessions participants are introduced to the three themes of cooperation, communication, and affirmation. These are the foundations on which successful conflict resolution is built. (RM)

Presenting a comparative analysis of seven different science programs designed for education at the elementary level, these proceedings focus on science education training and leadership roles for Bureau of Indian Affairs educators. Included are: (1) a description of the University of New Mexico's summer training program, detailing program…