A kindergarten parent workshop series on the developmental stages of writing was created and assessed. The intended outcome was to empower parents with writing knowledge and writing skills so that they could apply this knowledge and skills at home with their child. The researcher developed the workshops from parent involvement research,…

Teacher-librarians have implemented collaborations, becoming facilitators of literacy development throughout their schools as library research moves into multimodal forms. For instance, Wolf & Jordan (2006) studied teacher-librarian collaboration with third grade students researching and writing within a unit on severe weather preparedness. The…

The statistics on acquaintance rape and sexual assault against women are a clear indication that this is a problem that needs to be confronted. An increasing number of articles address the problems that rape survivors face and examine methods mental health professionals can use to assist survivors in dealing with these problems. Articles that…

The purposes of this study are to examine faculty involvement in blended instruction and their attitudes towards the instructional method. The study also explored how universities support faculty in their current practices on blended instruction and the challenges in supporting faculty. The target population of this study was Institute of Higher…

Four group summary papers from an Australian national workshop on discourse analysis discuss verbal and written discourse and the classroom. Papers reflect the four workshop discussion groups of casual conversation, classroom discourse, expository discourse, and literary narrative. They include: "On Casual Conversation" (M. A. K.…

The program plans, concerns, and goals of the Nottingham Branch, a committee involved with inservice mathematics teacher education, are discussed. (SD)

This practicum addressed the need to provide a plan of activities designed to enable primary students to develop and use selective and critical televiewing skills in both the school and home. Goals of the practicum were: (1) to show a growth in the knowledge of selective and critical televiewing skills, and in the application of those skills; (2)…

This publication is the final report of the federally-funded population education project of Zero Population Growth (ZPG). In this report, population education is defined and discussed, the development and performance of the project is described, evaluation measures are presented and analyzed, and the continuation of the project after the federal…

A PROJECT WAS UNDERTAKEN TO DEVELOP A SERIES OF PACKAGED, INTEGRALLY RELATED, SELF-ADMINISTRABLE WORKSHOPS WHICH COULD BE USED BY TEACHERS FOR INSERVICE AUDIOVISUAL EDUCATION. EACH WORKSHOP PROGRAM WAS PRODUCED AROUND A PARTICULAR TOPIC, FOR EXAMPLE, OVERHEAD PROJECTION. THE PROGRAMS WERE LATER TESTED, REVISED, AND EVALUATED IN SAMPLE SCHOOLS.…

In an effort to provide services to the teaching of precollege psychology, the Oklahoma State Psychological Association sponsored a survey of state high schools. Of the 478 questionnaires initiated in November, 1972, 209 (43%) were returned by February 1973. The returns revealed that 112 high schools had a psychology program at the time of the…

Papers presented at an English Language workshop represent topics discussed during the institute to inform and assist English teachers in meeting the needs of all the students in the classroom. The papers discuss an introduction to grammar as seen by a linguist, structural grammar, phonology, and transformational grammar. Specific examples are…

A commitment to enhancing and developing leadership skills contributes to positioning Head Start as a central community institution for low-income children and their families. This guide, comprised of three training modules, is intended to help Head Start leaders refine and expand their skills and knowledge through a variety of training…

This paper lists and briefly describes principles that were used to conduct a successful parenting workshop on building strong families. Principles described are those that lay the groundwork for the workshop, pertain to the operation of an effective workshop, and relate to follow-up and evaluation. The principles were used to conduct a…

A look at the results of both short and long term evaluations on college faculty workshops. (HB)