The types of reference question considered most difficult by the staffs of Northern California public library systems were the subject of a workshop conducted by the Bay Area Reference Center (BARC). The topics included: antiques and collectibles; identifying a poem from its middle line; how to make practically anything; how to repair various…

The High School Workshops in Careers in Education serve as preservice and inservice training experience for high school students, to stimulate their interest and expand their early involvement in careers in education. The major objectives of the workshops are to identify and attract high school students to new insights and dimensions in education…

The final report presents descriptions of activities, procedures, evaluations, recommendations, and conclusions of two series of workshops undertaken to inform ABE teachers in New England of innovative techniques in teaching English as a second language (ESL). Workshop participants were introduced to fresh and provocative teaching methods that…

The proceedings of a workshop on the growth of Southeast Asian universities emphasize the problems attendant to this growth; for example, expansion versus consolidation of higher education, and mass versus selective higher education. Papers concerned with university growth focus on various countries: Indonesia, Khmer Republic, Laos, Vietnam,…

This KWIC Index was prepared to provide rehabilitation counselors and others concerned with their work and preparation with a basic bibliography in a form which is easy to use. It indexes a substantial portion of the literature published in this field in the last eight years. It is concerned with the types of problems peculiar to rehabilitation…

Video tapes of similar lessons taught to small groups of students before and after science teachers attended a two-week curriculum workshop were studied to determine whether teaching style changed as a result of a workshop experience. The workshop had little influence on teacher's techniques. To develop a measure of the effectiveness of different…

This booklet, one of a series of 34 on promising programs in childhood education prepared for the White House Conference on Children, December 1970, describes the Philadelphia Teacher Center--a staff development program which provides a place where teachers can make things for their classrooms and exchange ideas with others. The Center provides…

An integrated set of summer workshops was conducted for elementary teachers in the River Rouge, Michigan, School District (for eight teachers and eight aides from each of grades 1, 2, and 3 representing all four elementary schools) to introduce them to and provide practice in selected innovative techniques for the management of classroom behavior…

Misconceptions regarding the reading abilities of Kingston, Jamaica, junior high school students are discussed. Preliminary planning procedures, details of the operational plan for the project classes, and a description of diagnostic studies, methods, and materials used are presented. Particular problems encountered; summaries of results and…

A workshop on outdoor education, funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title V, was held to develop guidelines for a residential program for urban disadvantaged youth. Participants came from various educational and other disciplines. Resource speakers and leaders were also involved. Tentative guidelines and objectives were produced…

At the beginning of the second year of the Community Mental Health Service operation, expansion was decided, to a total of six consultants for the elementary schools in Douglas County, Nebraska. Consulting was done on a regular basis in the lower grades in hopes of catching problems at their inception, thus hopefully causing greater improvement…

A curriculum on theater is presented in this volume prepared by the Central Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory (CAREL) Arts and Humanities Curriculum Development Program for Young Children. Topics in the 23 page Rationale section range from theories of cognitive development to an extensive explanation of the workshop concept which is…

A study was conducted to determine how participation in self-assessment seminars influences the attitudes, practices, and communication behavior of teachers. Two seminar groups of seven student teachers met for a series of 10 2-hour seminars during their senior student teaching. They were matched in a pretest-posttest design with control group…

Discussed are aspects of the inservice training component of a 1970-71 Paterson, New Jersey, Title III Early Education project which provided an educational intervention program for 120 pre-kindergarten and 120 kindergarten aged culturally disadvantaged children. Noted is the development by the staff of a set of Performance Objectives for areas…

This study identifies similarities in the value hierarchies of elementary school teachers in four desegregated schools to determine if an inservice workshop in value clarification significantly changed the value characteristics of teachers, according to their rank ordering on the Rokeach Value Survey. Four Tempe, Arizona schools held three…