The Transform Autism Education (TAE) project is a tri-national teacher training scheme involving Greece, Italy and the UK, whose purpose is to set up training projects to facilitate the educational inclusion of autistic children. Running over three years from 2014 to 2017, the involvement of autistic participants has been the source of some…

Employees in a negotiation training workshop are chatting happily in a company cafeteria near San Francisco. They're not on break. They're on assignment. Their objective: to discover three things they didn't know--and wouldn't have guessed--about each other. The exercise isn't about the information, though. It's about the methods they used to get…

Presents a format for conducting effective training workshops using socioprocess groups as the specific training modality. The inservice program for juvenile court workers was designed to develop awareness of the basic principles of interpersonal relationships and to develop skills in using them. (JAC)

Describes an approach to leadership development which is particularly supportive of the needs of adolescents and reflective of a democratic style of leadership. It is an outgrowth of the High/Scope Summer Workshop for Teenagers, which helped young people acquire leadership skills through group membership and cooperation. (Author)

An Assertiveness Skills program for faculty members at a major southwestern university was developed and evaluated. This paper describes the procedures used to (1) assess faculty concerns related to the interpersonal aspects of the instructional situation, (2) develop an assertiveness skills workshop series designed for university faculty,…

Describes a two-stage project for upgrading practitioners' interpersonal skills in a statewide service delivery system. Involved selection and training of trainers and teaching service providers a model for helping that described the skills, goals, and process for facilitating client action. Provides a brief summary of workshop evaluation data.…

A study examined the effect of social style training on the workers of a state agency in the midwest. The Social Style Training Workshop was a half-day session designed to provide participants with an assessment of their social style as perceived by their coworkers. In addition, participants examined the meaning of various social styles, their…

The effectiveness of a social skills training workshop was assessed by comparing the rated competence of participants in an Interpersonal Skills Training Program to the rated competence of nonparticipants. Subjects' self-ratings were included. This comparison was operationalized through a pretest-posttest design with 12 experimental and 22 control…

This article discusses designing leadership lessons for students with mild disabilities and results of a study evaluating the effectiveness of leadership training of 12 adolescents with mild disabilities. After attending bimonthly leadership workshops, students developed their ability to manage interpersonal relationships and work cooperatively,…

Defining literacy development as a continuous process that has its roots in the home, this training guide is intended to enhance the skills of Head Start staff in collaborating with families to support the development of children's language skills. The guide also describes the emerging literacy for children from birth through the preschool years.…

This instructional package is designed to help improve the services offered to community college students by registration staff members and can be used as a reference guide or an instructional tool. The materials contain a manual that the learner uses in conjunction with a sound/filmstrip presentation, a transcript of the sound/filmstrip, and a…

The social self-concepts of four gifted high school students attending a rigorous residential program were examined before and after participation in a social skills workshop patterned after the Culcross and Jenkins-Friedman (1988) model. Contrary to expectation, the subjects did not demonstrate an increase in their social self-concepts.…

This training guide is designed to build the capacity of Head Start staff to make the program's renewed vision for parent involvement a reality for every parent and program. The guide contains three modules, each with two activities designed for workshop presentation, followed by two or more coaching activities. Module 1 defines parent involvement…

Based on experiential learning models for improvement of individual behavior and teamwork effectiveness, this handbook is designed to assist personnel in the Veterans Administration (VA) health delivery system with interpersonnel processes that will improve organizational effectiveness. Chapter 1 contains background information concerning the…

This manual is designed to provide a model for training college professors and instructors who are responsible for preparing educators and business professionals for occupations that place them in contact with young gays and lesbians. Eleven of the manual's 13 sections contain an extensive menu of practical activities, including structured…