The authors present a step-by-step approach to a phased-in career development model to help develop, restructure, evaluate, and implement a program. Steps include: examine existing practices; sell top management; communicate corporate philosophy; integrate the program; design workshops; and evaluate. (CT)

A teacher is in a position to identify a child who is the victim of child abuse. An inservice program in workshop form can train teachers to recognize an abused child, and to take steps to halt the practice. (JD)

Suggests ways to involve working parents with the early childhood education programs in which their children are enrolled. (MS)

The article offers teachers of the deaf guidelines for developing an in-service workshop for other teachers. Five steps in workshop development are proposed as are guidelines for needs assessment, identifying local experts, motivating attendees, selecting delivery methods, and workshop evaluation. (DB)

Describes the fifth Dublin Core (DC Workshop) DC is a small set of simple, descriptive data elements intended to aid in the discovery of Internet resources. Covers metadata issues, "DC Lite," current international projects utilizing the Core, and issues yet to be resolved. (AEF)

This book describes and analyzes program planning and development in the field of continuing education. The book contains seven chapters. Building on the phases of program development and the role of the program planner in chapter 1, the book draws attention in chapter 2 to some of the many challenges that are common when programs are planned. The…

This report is a general guide for people planning a charter school. In September 1995 the Program on Reinventing Public Education, a collaborative effort of the University of Washington's Institute for Public Policy and Management and the RAND Institute for Education and Training, sponsored a workshop on charter school startup. This report…

A project was conducted to continue to provide adult educators in Pennsylvania with information about adults with learning differences and techniques for their instruction. Five new training sessions were developed as part of the project: (1) accommodating adults with learning disabilities; (2) if they think differently, shouldn't they study…

This publication describes an inservice training program implemented in September 1979 in the Montgomery County Public Schools (Maryland) to help physical education teachers involved with mainstreamed handicapped students. Issues emphasized in planning the program were relevance, information, convenience, and feasibility of the workshop model. Two…

In the introduction to this monograph on the workshop as an effective educational function for inservice teachers, the need for inservice education is discussed as well as the particular value of workshops in meeting that need. The historical background of workshops is outlined in the second chapter, including selected definitions of workshops and…

Discussed the following aspects of a well-functioning family day care program: (1) clustering of homes; (2) preservice and inservice workshops; (3) consultation; (4) family day care assistants; (5) stable method of payment; (6) alternative systems; and (7) agency attitudes toward day care mothers. (Author/SDH)

An outline is presented of steps taken in a one-day workshop designed for teacher education faculty who plan to augment the international components of the teacher education curriculum. The focus of the workshop was on "A Guide to Workshop Procedures" (reproduced in this paper), which delineates in detail the sequential activities and tasks for…

This practicum was designed to provide teaching professionals with advocacy information, skills, techniques, and resources in order to increase participant awareness and self-confidence, and, ultimately, their community involvement. The primary method used to address this goal was the development and presentation of three workshops. These were…

Drawing from experiences in conducting two technical workshops in Taiwan, this paper describes the process of developing and implementing activities which provide technical assistance and instruction in specific content areas and which suggest alternative delivery methods for faculty from foreign educational institutions. The paper looks at such…

The information in this report is based on the experiences of Cornell University and the University of South Carolina in responding to the needs of gay students in their residence halls. A starter kit on developing gay issue programming for other campuses is presented which includes a Gay Programming Checklist and a description of a sample…