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Download full textIsgar, Tom; Isgar, Susan – 1968
Reported is a summer training institute for the directors and staffs of tutorial projects. The 30 interns were middle class college students who came to Detroit for a leadership training program combining field work, seminars, residence in disadvantaged communities, and intense personal and group interaction experiences. The goal was to develop…
Descriptors: College Students, Field Experience Programs, Individual Development, Institutes (Training Programs)
Lange, Dale L.; Hammers, James – 1970
This comprehensive report, prepared by program participants and staff, reviews the objectives of the institute and discusses problems common to student teacher, cooperating teacher, and university staff in the development of student-teacher programs. The operation of the institute is described, including: (1) planning, (2) description of institute…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Educational Objectives, German, Institutes (Training Programs)
Brown, Edward B.; Dutton, Donnie – 1972
Three 2-week Adult Basic Education (ABE) Institutes were conducted in Tennessee during the summer of 1972. The three were an ABE Guidance and Counseling Institute, an ABE Materials and Teaching Institute, and an ABE Reading Institute. Each institute consisted of approximately 30 participants from the various regions of the state, and graduate…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Credit Courses, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods
Direct linkStodt, Martha McGinty – New Directions for Higher Education, 1987
The synergy among quality education, student development, and retention as goals for an educational institution provided the impetus for a group of colleges and universities to form a 12-institution consortium. The preeminent requirement for success along all three paths was collaboration between the academic and student affairs domains. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Administrator Role, Administrators, College Administration
Enochs, Larry G. – 1985
The Kansas State Energy Curriculum Institute (KSECI) was conducted for 2 weeks in June 1984 at Kansas State University, Manhattan, and was attended by nine rural elementary teachers from northeast Kansas. The program included the dissemination of energy curriculum materials, field trips, guest speakers, media production, and other energy education…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation
COSTER, JOHN K.; MAYO, SELZ C. – 1967
THE CENTER WAS ESTABLISHED ON JUNE 1, 1965, UNDER PROVISIONS OF THE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACT OF 1963, PUBLIC LAW 88-210. TWO PROGRAMS WERE INITIATED DURING THE CONTRACT PERIOD. THE FIRST INVOLVED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ON PROBLEMS IN SIX AREAS--(1) OCCUPATIONAL ADJUSTMENTS IN THE SOUTH, (2) SHAPING FLEXIBLE VOCATIONAL BEHAVIOR IN YOUTH, (3)…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Conferences, Educational Policy, Educational Research
Hontz, Glenn – 1967
A six-week summer training institute designed to provide participants with the skills and understanding needed to help student teachers and beginning teachers to perform successfully in racially mixed schools and classrooms was attended by 119 elementary and secondary school teachers and administrators (approximately half Negro and half white)…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Educational Problems, Field Trips, Group Discussion
Wyoming State Library, Cheyenne. – 1973
An outline is provided of the Wyoming State Library's annual plan for the 1974 fiscal year. Major programs are listed as being developed in the following areas: 1) to assist all Wyoming public libraries in reaching minimum state goals; 2) to strengthen statewide workshops, institutes, and inservice training programs which are calculated to upgrade…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Blindness, Disabilities, Disadvantaged
Council for Exceptional Children, Arlington, VA. – 1973
Nine conference papers focus on education of educable mentally handicapped (EMH) children. A prototype evaluation of procedures for teaching reading comprehension involves assessment of 96 EMH or normal students' skills in identifying main and supporting ideas in connected discourse. Described is the Lincoln School's behavioral management system…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Cognitive Development, Conference Reports, Context Clues
Peer reviewedBeale, Andrew V. – Journal of Career Education, 1979
Describes a 60-hour university-public school-business career guidance institute for Richmond, Virginia, middle and high school teachers and other school personnel. The institute was designed to provide urban educators with the business and work information they needed to work with their students. Includes the institute's schedule, content, and…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Cooperative Planning, Disadvantaged Youth, Education Work Relationship
de Vry, Janet R.; And Others – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1996
The University of Delaware has offered several week-long faculty development institutes planned collaboratively by four areas of the university with significant experience in faculty instruction and service: (1) Information Technology/User Services; (2) Center for Teaching Effectiveness; (3) Library; and (4) Instructional Technology Center.…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, College Instruction, Cooperation
Howard, Edrice, Ed. – 1986
A guide to more than 850 study-abroad programs is updated each year to give information about programs that take place during the period from late spring to early fall. About half of the programs, which range from 3 days to 3 months, are sponsored by U.S. colleges and universities, the rest by foreign institutions and private and governmental…
Descriptors: College Programs, Courses, Eligibility, Foreign Countries
Stake, Robert E.; Gjerde, Craig – 1975
This evaluation of the Twin City Institute for Talented Youth, a summer program for gifted students in grades 9 through 12, consists of two parts: a description of the program; and the evaluators' assessments, including advocate and adversary reports. Achievement tests were not used for evaluation. Evaluative comments follow each segment of the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cognitive Development, Course Descriptions, Creative Development
CLAYE, CLIFTON M. – 1967
DURING ITS FIRST YEAR OF OPERATION THE CENTER MADE ITS SERVICES KNOWN TO HELP SCHOOLS ELIMINATE THE PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH DESEGREGATION. AMONG THE PROBLEM AREAS INVESTIGATED IN CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, CLINICS, INSTITUTES, AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS WERE--CULTURAL DIFFERENCES, COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE SERVICES, TEACHING METHODS, SOCIAL ACTIVITIES,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, Civil Rights Legislation, Conferences
Wichita State Univ., KS. – 1963
The individual and committee reports on the sociology of Puebla, Mexico, which are collected here, were written by participants in an NDEA Summer Institute program of the University of Wichita, Kansas. The underlying motives of the program, described in the preface, were to provide participants with real language experience and a chance to…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, Conversational Language Courses, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Education
