To accomplish desired changes in the behavior of practicing vocational educators, Illinois has worked toward a system of statewide and continuous inservice staff development. Articulation maximizes resources by eliminating duplication of services. The State provides technical assistance; special contracts have produced curriculum guides. Workshops…

This article describes a workshop designed to give teachers an awareness of current music and the values expressed in its lyrics. (SJL)

Described is an in-service training program for faculty of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science which was designed to help faculty members implement a new curriculum, focused on competency-based objectives. An overview of workshop activities and an assessment of the results are included. (JMD)

Having teachers teach teachers was a highly successful approach to the problem of providing metric inservice training for over four hundred fifty secondary school teachers. Describes their training and five advantages to this approach. (Author/RK)

A Family Workshop is an informal, multidisciplined educational program for adults and children, organized by a team of teachers. This article discusses the Lavender Hill Family Workshop, one of many, which attempts to provide education in various subject areas for adults and for children while also integrating both objectives in order to educate…

The mathematics department at the Dalton School in New York City, was well aware of the math anxiety among its students and so sponsored a Mind Over Math program for the students in three Algebra I classes. This series of five one-hour workshops, which met during one of the three regular class sessions, was designed to reduce and prevent negative…

The Downing Program for Parent Training in Family Relationship and Management Skills was introduced to the parents of students attending an alternative education school at the secondary level. Students with parents completing the Downing Program were significantly or markedly different from students whose parents did not participate. (Author)

This article presents a model for inservice workshops for educators. A workshop which can be justified in terms of money and manpower expended must be based on assessed needs. If possible, participants should become involved in both assessing needs and establishing priorities. (Author/GC)

The Head Start Continuation Learning Project involves parents in the public school system as Assistant Teachers, engaging them in both continuing learning and teaching through projects addressing their own needs before asking them to contribute to the achievement of goals that are external. (MB)

This description of the development of the Mansfield, Illinois, K-6 career awareness model program for elementary school students covers the following areas: program objectives, inservice training and workshops for personnel, curriculum outlines of occupational clusters, and the integration of career development and subject matter concepts. (MF)

A cooperative effort between the local school districts, state departments of education, professional organizations, and institutions of higher education on in-service education would result in more efficient use of resources and in more competent teachers. It would also achieve the end result of a better education for the students. (Author)

Assesses inservice training as a strategy for bringing about change in schools. The concepts of the change process serve as a theoretical base for identifying three approaches--workshops, organizational development, and action research--to inservice education that appear to have the greatest potential for effecting change. (Author/IRT)

The training program for teaching assistants in the French Department of the University of California at Davis is described. The program consists of an orientation workshop, continued supervision and evaluation, language laboratory supervision, and assisting in testing and evaluation of students. (CHK)

Discusses ways to teach faculty in other disciplines about writing. Offers several writing assignments for interdisciplinary faculty workshops, provides guidelines for conducting such workshops, and outlines desiderata of the content area writing assignment. Appendixes include student writing assignments from courses in various disciplines. (JG)

Presents findings of a survey of participants in writing across the curriculum workshops at the University of Vermont. Notes that although nearly every class requires student writing, the kind of assignment is generally informational, does not engage discovery and direct involvement with material, and requires writing in the particular…