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…

Environmental agencies in most states have an environmental education Web page that can point geography teachers to a variety of opportunities and resources to enhance their teaching. Most states provide linkages to local and national programs such as Project WET and Project WILD, and access to lesson plans and other teaching materials. A number…

Describes a four-day workshop on alternative careers that was offered a group of educators. The workshop focuses on such areas as self-assessment, interviewing skills, resume writing, and the kinds of experiences one is likely to encounter in changing careers. (IRT)

Discusses the importance for teachers of conflict resolution through negotiation and describes a model teachers' workshop on conflict resolution. (JG)

The Office of Gifted and Talented, New Jersey, and the Department of Education and Industrial Arts of Glassboro, South Carolina, cosponsored the first "Olympics of the Mind," a competition designed to develop and recognize the creative talents of high school students. The activity is described, and information for schools and teachers is provided.…

Each August, teachers from around the state gather for the Arizona K-12 Center's Tech Camp, a week-long immersion in technology for the classroom. The Arizona K-12 Center's mission is to improve teaching and learning in Arizona's schools through high-quality professional development and teacher leadership. The formula Tech Camp follows is a simple…

Project SEARCH is a cooperative program developed for and by New York education administrators and teachers to develop products and processing for humanizing education. Its aim is to reorient teacher attitudes toward the arts through workshops that develop teachers' capacities for affective aesthetic response. Teachers then are guided in efforts…

Describes the rigors of the certification process through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Describes how a collaborative team of teacher education faculty and national-board certified teachers led a year-long program of support for candidates for national-board certification, mentoring nearly 100 teachers in a three-year…

The National Project on Career Education is a collaborative program of the Model Secondary School for the Deaf at Gallaudet College and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). The project is training educators in each state through an 18-hour 22-module workshop on career education and planning skills. (DB)

The article is designed to help educational agencies cope with the problems encountered in deciding on the structure and content of inservice programs on the topic of mainstreaming. The expressed concerns of over 300 regular and special educators are translated into several organized methods for presentation. (Author/PHR)

The Jefferson County, Colorado, public schools (Jeffco) have offered an arts in general education program since 1971. Its intent is to infuse the entire curriculum, K-12, with arts activities and perspectives. (Author/RK)

The target population for this program was teachers, students, and community persons from seven public schools and one non-public school. It was designed to reach teachers, students, parents, and community members with the major focus on developing students' skills in using metric measurement. Teachers and lay people received their training in…

Highlights are presented of a California in-service fair, the "Teacher Teaser Show." Within a vaudevillian format, 15 minute presentations were made of exciting, successful teaching techniques in various subject areas. Interested audience members could join presenters after the show for more detailed information. Several of the…

The project's activities, which were a series of six workshops conducted to disseminate career education information to educational staff in the New Hampshire seacoast area, are contained in this document. Part 1 describes a series of 2-hour teacher workshops conducted in four different locations on the seacoast by active career education…

Describes workshops offered in a cooperative venture between the California Writing Project and the California Technology Project to see how both technology and writing could provide useful and intriguing tools for teaching math and training math educators. (SR)