This 1973 report is the result of a continuing workshop funded by the Santa Barbara High School District. Its purpose was to formulate goals, objectives, program description and evaluation for effective secondary school library service. The librarians of the high school district drafted this publication. Although initially directed toward the…

This segment of the Early Childhood Library Specialist Program is known as the parent/child project and it functions as a model to demonstrate how library oriented institutions can work with parents and their children, and serves as an agent for the dissemination of information to parents and young children. The parent/child project attempts to…

The successful functioning of a democratic form of government depends on a number of very basic principles. The issue confronted at this conference, the provision of legal research materials to prisoners, is tied very closely to two of these principles: first, that no individual should be without recourse to the courts and to the law; and second,…

THE IMPACT OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY ON ART INSTRUCTION WAS STUDIED DURING A 5-DAY SYMPOSIUM. THE PARTICIPANTS WERE 50 ART EDUCATORS AND 4 MEDIA SPECIALISTS. HUMAN LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT, RESEARCH IN THE MEDIA FIELD RELEVANT TO ART EDUCATION, MEDIA HARDWARE, AND PROJECTION OF PRESENT MEDIA TENDENCIES WERE EXPLORED AND EXAMINED THROUGH PAPERS,…

The usefulness of any educational experience is determined not by who designs it or where it takes place, but by whether it meets the needs, wants, and goals of the participants. (JD)

Two-year institutions have experienced a phenomenal growth in the last 10-15 years. The chemical education programs in the two-year institutions are probably more diverse than those found in the first and second year chemistry offerings in most four-year institutions. (Author/BB)

A teacher seminar focusing on children's thinking is reviewed. The seminar operates in teachers' homes and emphasizes group discussion and exchange of experiences. (DS)

The "Everyone Needs a Parent" curriculum provides a new way of getting in touch with parenting by helping people to regain old skills and develop new ones. (MM)

Unfortunately, many elementary schools today are not equipped with an art room. In addition, thousands of elementary school children complete the first six years of their formal education without the benefit of a qualified art teacher. The project described is one small step toward educating the "whole" child. It features the Artmobile,…

Project ASPIRE was designed to increase educators' awareness of sexual prejudice. Training activities focused on self-awareness, effects of sex-role stereotyping on students, procedures to assess biases in instructional and counseling practices and materials, and methods to reduce sex-role stereotyping within the school setting. (Author)

Reports on a workshop held in Chicago in March, 1978 by the National Society of Professional Engineers. The workshop addressed the task of planning a program of development of professional schools of engineering. (BB)

The process of goal setting outlined emphasizes education and personal development, acknowledges departmental interdependency and consistency, brings purpose and direction to staff training programs and year-long activities, guarantees that measurement of success is possible, and acknowledges the student helper as an integral part of the residence…

Twelve college professors attending an instructional improvement workshop were compared with appropriate matched controls on changes in self-actualization as measured by the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI). Results indicated that workshop participants increased their scores on 6 of 12 scales of the POI while control professors' scores…

Notes that useful information can be gathered by examining programs of agricultural teacher conferences. Data presented, gathered from such programs, include whether the conferences were joint or separate, type (all-vocational or technical agriculture), whether they were held on land-grant colleges, length and rotation, unique activities, special…

Effective groups differed from less effective groups in the areas of shared values, adherence to norms related to participation, methods of participating in the work and in the areas of satisfaction with the human and material resources that affected their group behavior. (Author)