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Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1967
FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TESTS OF THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCATION WERE USED TO DETERMINE THE DEGREE OF IMPROVEMENT ACHIEVED BY 2,300 FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS WHO RECEIVED ADVANCED TRAINING IN THE 1966 NDEA SUMMER FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTITUTES. TEACHERS OF FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, RUSSIAN, AND SPANISH IN 52 INSTITUTES WERE TESTED AT THE BEGINNING…
Descriptors: Institutes (Training Programs), Language Proficiency, Language Teachers, Language Tests
McPhail, Irving P. – 1978
The purpose of this paper is to describe an institute on basic skills that was organized for faculty members at a historically black, public, four-year, urban-oriented, "open admissions" college. Specifically, the described institute was designed to develop positive faculty attitudes toward incorporating the teaching of basic skills into the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Faculty Development, High Risk Students, Higher Education
Smith, Jessie Carney – 1979
An institute on ethnic genealogy for librarians held by Fisk University was designed to prepare librarians to collect, preserve, interpret, and disseminate materials on ethnic genealogy to meet the needs of pluralistic communities, and to create more widespread interest in collecting and preserving materials on ethnic genealogy to support future…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Cultural Pluralism, Ethnic Groups, Ethnic Origins
Smith, G. Rogers – 1975
Resources for planning adult education events are provided in this manual. Four major sections, with subdivisions, are presented: (1) Pre-meeting Preparation (the planning committee, goals and objectives, facilities and equipment, and leadership); (2) The Meeting (orientation and opening, working toward the objectives, people factors, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Equipment, Evaluation Methods, Group Discussion
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc., Reston, VA. – 1967
A BULLETIN WHICH EMPHASIZES THE NEED FOR EFFECTIVE INSERVICE EDUCATION IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS BEGINS WITH AN INTRODUCTORY SECTION WHICH (1) DESCRIBES TYPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERNS AND MATHEMATICS PROGRAMS, (2) LISTS FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCE TEACHERS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS MATHEMATICS TEACHING, AND (3) CITES IMPLICATIONS OF…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers, Independent Study, Inservice Teacher Education
University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA. – 1966
THE DESIGN OF THIS FACILITY FOR A PROPOSED SCIENCE CENTER BEGAN WITH AN ANALYSIS OF COMMUNICATIVE NETWORKS AND OTHER RELATED CONCEPTUAL IMPLEMENTS. EMPHASIZED WERE--(1) FUNCTIONAL RESOURCE LOCATION, (2) INFORMATION EXCHANGE, (3) COMPLIMENTARY FACILITIES, (4) ADAPTATION TO ACTIVITY, (5) ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND SPACE, AND (6) ADAPTIVE…
Descriptors: Architectural Character, Audiovisual Communications, Conferences, Continuing Education Centers
TAYLOR, ROBERT E. – 1968
ACTIVITIES OF THE CENTER FOR THE QUARTER INCLUDED CONTINUED WORK ON 14 CENTER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND ON TWO ADDITIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS AND A RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM FUNDED BY SPECIAL CONTRACTS. LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES INCLUDED A 2-DAY MEETING FOR STATE PERSONNEL ON INFORMATION ACCESSIBILITY, FOUR RESEARCH TRAINING…
Descriptors: Information Centers, Information Dissemination, Institutes (Training Programs), Leadership Training
Herner, Saul – 1968
A one day course was developed to train and inform working scientists and engineers in the most direct and efficient means of seeking and acquiring scientific and technical information related to their day-to-day professional activities. The course was given three times to groups of forty Federally-employed scientists and engineers in the middle…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation, Engineering, Engineers
Jenkins, Offa Lou Harris – 1978
Week-end college offerings provided more than 360 paraprofessionals, parents, and professionals with opportunities for comprehensive study of ways to meet the developmental needs of children with handicapping conditions. The program was initiated through the cooperative efforts of a college special education department, a university affiliated…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Course Descriptions, Handicapped Children, Higher Education
Burgener, V. E.; Reese, Dorothy – 1975
A series of five national instructor training workshops were planned for traffic court judges and administrators. A curriculum package which had been previously prepared was used to orient selected key personnel toward highway safety. Technical Education Research Centers (Midwest Center) conducted the conferences from October 23 to December 12,…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Conferences, Court Judges, Courts
Iraci, Joseph – 1975
Summarized are the proceedings from a special study institute on the I CAN Project which has developed individualized physical education curriculum materials for trainable retarded students. It is explained that the project cover instruction in acquatic skills, body management, fundamental skills (such as locomotion and object control), and health…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Conference Reports, Curriculum, Exceptional Child Education
Helgeson, Stanley L. – 1974
Focused on the impact of the institute program for inservice teachers sponsored by the National Science Foundation, this report summarizes the findings of 138 documents (research and evaluation studies). Documents reviewed were grouped into dissertations and theses (63), journal articles (41), interim or final reports (23), papers presented at…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Higher Education, Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education
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Civil Service Commission, Chicago, IL. Regional Training Center. – 1975
The document contains a general information sheet, a curriculum calendar for 1976, and course descriptions for the following General Management Training Institute courses: advanced management seminar, executive seminar, management and group performance, management of scientific and engineering organizations, managerial decision making, middle…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Adult Education, Course Content, Course Descriptions
Stronck, David R. – 1976
On the basis that one of the primary goals for an inservice institute introducing an innovative curriculum should be to change the participants' philosophy of teaching, this study analyzed the achievement of this goal in several inservice institutes designed to prepare teachers for implementing the Elementary Science Study (ESS) and the Science…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. – 1974
This booklet outlines the details of a training workshop to provide Right to Read directors with the knowledge and skills necessary to develop comprehensive reading programs for their districts. In the first section, 26 criteria for the development of successful reading programs are listed under the three categories of organization and…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Instructional Materials, Leadership Training
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