THE MOST EFFECTIVE MEDIUM FOR INSERVICE EDUCATION OF TEACHERS IS THE SUMMER WORKSHOP. THE COURSE WAS AN INSTITUTE INVOLVING AN INSTRUCTOR-COORDINATOR AS WELL AS SPECIALISTS. THE AREAS COVERED WERE ANTHROPOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, CHILD STUDY, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRY, AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT. THE AREA OF CHILD STUDY…

An instrument was designed to test the effects of a human relations training program which conformed to the Minnesota State Guidelines for imparting knowledge, building skills, and developing positive attitudes toward special groups. The training program followed a model for maximizing instruction summarized in Glaser and Resnick (1972) and drew…

The paper describes how and why the human relations technologies of training institutes (sponsored by the Indiana University's School of Nursing, Division of Continuing Education) are presented from the vantage point of adult education principles, processes, and procedures. (Author/MW)

The purpose of the institute was: 1) to improve the teaching of Negro students; 2) to prepare Negro and white teachers to assume duties in predominately Negro schools; 3) to meliorate racial prejudice, to provide for Negroes to develop healthy self-images; 4) to prepare educators to deal with problems of race relations; and, 5) to prepare teachers…

This report summarizes a cooperative program in which senior student teachers from Newark State College serve as staff members in the South Brunswick, New Jersey, schools for a 6-week summer training program followed by a full semester of internship in the schools. Among the essential elements of the internship program are: (1) its role as a part…

This action research by a management psychologist utilized insights and methodology from the behavioral science to promote planned, positive change in the Navy's criminal justice system. Specifically, the present phase of this ongoing investigation focused upon Marines assigned to five correctional facilities in North Carolina and Southern…

The Institute's many purposes include: (1) sensitizing educators to the need for career development education; (2) assisting teachers to develop instructional units into which career education activities will be infused; (3) collecting community resources for the teachers' utilization; (4) assisting counselors to back up teachers during…