Transfer of knowledge and skills from the classroom to real life settings is an essential goal of any educational program. A study of microcounseling skills possessed by graduate students examined their interactions with classmates in a role playing situation. All students participated in skills training, responded to videotaped client vignettes,…

Counselor education programs, asserts the author, typically have not lent themselves to accurate assessment. He maintains that true evaluation can be realized only when all therapeutic and instructional goals are stated in terms of performance or observable behavior. Systems analysis is viewed as offering a useful approach for redirecting and…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not short-term training (60 hours) could produce paraprofessional counselors, competent in counseling skills, who would work effectively in their home-community on drug related problems. Three distinct areas of concern were evaluated: the effect of the program on the trainees with regard to…

Most counselor training programs make extensive use of videotaped demonstrations to convey information about important aspects of counselor behaviors and skills. This study investigates three questions: (1) Is an "inappropriate" counselor perceived as less effective than an "appropriate" counselor? (2) Is a recognized counselor…

These materials for a workshop, designed to help health occupations education teachers develop the interpersonal skills necessary to improve their teaching, consist of two conference reports, a minilecture, and a workshop exercise. The first report, which is entitled "Interaction Analysis for Health Occupations Education Teachers,"…

This paper synthesizes research in videotape utilization within several disciplines--teacher education, counselor education, psychological therapy, business training, and speech education--with three objectives: to bring mass communication educators upto-date in the non-broadcast uses and techniques of videotape; to provide guidelines for…

Materials contained in this guide were developed as part of the guidance component of a comprehensive program of vocational education for career development (kindergarten through university) and were used in inservice workshops in the Sarasota and Manatee school districts in Florida to train occupational placement specialists in micro-interviewing…

The thirty-five papers in this volume were presented on the theme "Reading--Update: Ideals to Reality." The keynote address, delivered by Leland L. Medsker, was entitled "Postsecondary Education in the Decade Ahead." Titles of other papers include "Characteristics of Community College Students,""A Key to Unlock…

In an age of rapid change in school buildings, materials and curriculum, classroom teaching has not kept pace with progress in other areas. Continuous re-education is needed to maintain the competence of teaching personnel already in service. One way of providing this instruction is through the use of video tape techniques to demonstrate good…

Describes foreign student isolation on American campuses and suggests a training model to educate campus personnel and students to deal effectively with each other. Results indicated the role playing procedure was useful for both students and campus personnel. Both groups benefited from dealing with general cross-cultural issues. (JAC)

This outline of instruction and student guide for a postsecondary level course for instructors is one of a number of military-developed curriculum packages selected for adaptation to instruction and curriculum development in a civilian setting. The course is designed to provide the neccesary information that the student will need in planning and…

This book on a rather widely known but less widely applied technique for teacher education is intended both to inform those people who are unfamiliar with microteaching and to caution those who see it as a final answer to teacher training. The first chapter provides a working definition of microteaching; surveys its importance in supervision,…