This post-professional development evaluation study (based on in-depth interviews) assessed the experience of ten educators who had participated one year earlier in workshops about the use of museum digital resources through the Smithsonian Learning Lab (SLL) for curricula development. The project focused on creating SLL collections to integrate…

Starting from 2009 academic year, the instructional coaches in a school district in a northwest American city began to provide Workshop II (pseudonym) to elementary school English teachers. This study aims to discuss the use of graphic organizers in English teachers' professional development. Different types of graphic organizers such as…

A Cashmere School District, Washington, project trained a cadre of rural educators and provided them with necessary skills and materials to conduct career education inservice training. Over fifty participants attended ten-day workshops at which the nine training modules developed by the project were used. Designed for independent presentation,…

Reports results of a study conducted to determine what impact vocational/career education demonstration centers had on educators' awareness and use of the programs, practices, and materials demonstrated. (TA)

A survey was conducted in March 1987, which evaluated the effectiveness of workshops on the use of newspapers in education. Questionnaire responses from 78 teacher/participants of 35 workshops in 13 states were used to determine (1) factors contributing to successful workshops, (2) implications for classrooms, and (3) suggestions for future…

This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of three methods for promoting use of materials developed by the Texas Nutrition Education and Training (NET) program for use in elementary schools. The methods are: (1) teacher workshops; (2) turnaround sessions; and (3) simple notification. Kindergarten and third grade classes in Austin…

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.…

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…

This report investigated the effect of Kazanjian Foundation Award Programs for Teaching Economics (KFAP) on elementary school children, grades four through six. The research was designed around three groups -- users of Kazanjian materials with teacher training, without teacher training, and users of normal curriculum materials. Teacher training…

A project was undertaken to develop and disseminate an activity-based learning experience booklet to enhance student self-development in career orientation classes at the junior high school level. Included among the major project activities were the following: identification of an appropriate needs assessment instrument; administration of a needs…

The purpose of the Institute was to provide for improving the quality of vocational teacher preparation by developing the skill of selected teacher educators and other decisionmakers to adapt, utilize, and evaluate performance-based vocational teacher education (PBTE) curricula. The Institute consisted of a series of instructional components…

In summer 1988, Tarrant County Junior College, Northeast Campus, conducted a series of eight 16-hour workshops and three 32-hour workshops for high school teachers of foreign languages. The workshops were intended primarily as in-service training to help foreign language teachers: (1) improve their oral proficiency in the language they teach; (2)…

Designed for equipping teams of local school district personnel, called cadre, to assume leadership of career education inservice teacher training at the secondary level, the project developed two products: a transportable package of instructional materials and a set of organizational procedures. Following a formative evaluation strategy, these…

A project was conducted to develop and refine an adult basic education (ABE) teaching/learning management system called CUBE (Continuity and Unity in Basic Education). (The CUBE system--a diagnostic/prescriptive system for individualizing competency based learning for students in ABE--provides a flexible and complete system of instruction for ABE…

A staff development program was conducted to provide adult educators in Pennsylvania with information about adults with learning differences and information about using alternative instructional tools and techniques to instruct such adults. The following four training sessions were developed: (1) Teaching GED (General Educational Development) Math…