This guide was designed for the personal and professional development of staff trainers and manpower administrators in state and local SRS-related agencies. It is composed of three major parts: Part One - Concepts for Adult Learning - introduces basic ideas central to the andragogical process of education. Part Two - Designs and Processes for…

OBJECTIVES: To develop workshops which would assist localities in initiating, expanding, or improving their educational volunteer program. DURATION: A 3-day workshop, May 6-8, 1972. AUDIENCE: Educational Volunteers from various western states. CURRICULUM: The main topic concerned volunteers in education while sub-topics included a study of the…

OBJECTIVES: To develop workshops which would assist localities in initiating, expanding, or improving their educational volunteer program. DURATION: A 3-day workshop from April 15-19, 1971. AUDIENCE: Educational Volunteers. CURRICULUM: The main topic concerned volunteers in education, education as a function of the total community, voluntary…

Transcripts of speeches as well as the Outline of How to Plan a Workshop are included in this proceedings report. It contains the texts of individual presentations by Bay Area Reference Center staff covering the following topics: The Workshop Planners, Assessing Needs, Preparing Workshop Objectives, Defining the Audience, The Time, The Place, The…

This meeting was designed to serve as an up-to-date learning resource for those involved in library education and as a centralized medium for the demonstration of projects and activities. Included in the report are discussions on (1) Principles of Adult Education Programming, (2) Needs Assessment Techniques, (3) Designing Education Plans for…

Thousands of parents, teachers, and civic and religious leaders are beginning to participate in a variety of action-oriented workshops to investigate TV and its messages and to learn practical strategies for helping parents and their children become more critical TV viewers. The article describes some of these workshops. (Author/RK)

This workshop was for participants who were interested in developing a numerical methods course. The contents of a numerical methods text were covered, with special emphasis on nonlinear least squares analysis, and the Runge-Kutta method of integrating systems of first-order differential equations. (BB)

This study measured the effectiveness of a behavior modification training program with parents of hard-core delinquents. Ten parents of hard-core delinquents were assigned to an experimental group, and ten to a control group. The comparison between the pre- and post-testing showed statistically significant differences for the experimental group.…

The effects of two psychosocial treatments, Reality Orientation and Sheltered Workshops, were evaluated against an assessment-only control. Program effects were assessed before and after treatment using three variables: the Life Satisfaction Index-A, nurses' ratings, and behavior observations. Sheltered Workshops may be more beneficial for this…

A panel made up of a school superintendent, a school board member, a news editor, and a foundation president discussed with workshop participants the impact and results of enrollment decline on one large urban area. (Author/MLF)

Vocational and technical institutions are enjoying increased enrollment, while liberal arts education is experiencing declining enrollment. A panel and conference participants discussed ways higher education can change productively and adapt to present and future circumstances. (Author/MLF)

Planning, implementation, and evaluation of the workshop. (DAG)

Describes such Story Workshop activities as beginning recall exercises, word exercises, oral readings, writing assignments, and tutorial conferences. (DD)

Gives a view of the historical background of the Seventh Working Session of Foreign Language Teachers in Giessen, September 1976. Closes with some general observations on the level of foreign language teaching and its present-day problems. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

This pilot project, using television as a catalyst for parent child communication, was conducted in three school systems: (1) Americus, Georgia, (2) Charlottesville, Virginia, and (3) New York City, New York. (STS)