Parents were taught strategies to use with their children by college students. The students who served as classroom aides, interns, and teacher associates developed the philosophy, initiated a vehicle, and disseminated the activities deemed necessary for school and society to correct deficiencies in urban education. (Author)

Developed by the National Council for Social Studies and distributed by the Employment and Training Administration, a kit entitled "Studies in Public Policy: Unemployment" is providing high school students with up-to-date information on the causes and consquences of unemployment and the function of the unemployment insurance program. (MF)

Discusses a workshop held to promote young farmer programs in Illinois. Describes how the workshop was planned and conducted. Provides evaluation information in two areas: (1) teacher evaluation of time allocation for workshop activities and (2) overall participant evaluation. Ninety percent of the workshop participants planned to organize young…

Highlights the components of the Gannett Teaching Fellowship Program, a summer workshop designed to improve journalism teacher effectiveness. Notes the particular benefits of using videotape materials, slide presentations, and the PLATO computer learning system in journalism education. (RL)

Describes the workshop program of the Department of City and Regional Planning at Harvard University. The workshop consists of a student team that helps a government or nonprofit agency solve a policy-related problem. (KC)

A successful approach to orienting new vocational teachers coming directly from business and industry is the New Teacher Workshop at Pennsylvania State University. Intensive guidance and practice in preparing lessons is climaxed by the novice teacher's presentation (and peer evaluation) on closed circuit television. (MF)

Two workshops to help beginning teachers in the transition from employment to teaching are described: the Missouri Vocational Teachers' Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and the Survival Teaching Competencies Program at Oklahoma State University. Required for beginning nondegreed teachers, both programs involve intensive teaching…

Reports on the topics discussed at workshops for community college journalism teachers. Among the areas dealt with were staff morale, teaching and grading methods, adviser legal liabilities, and advertising and post-Proposition 13 publishing. (GT)

The purpose of this paper is to describe and to evaluate an in-service workshop in family life education presented by the author in Calgary, Alberta, and to identify some of the implications of this experience for other in-service education for family life educators. (Author)

A description of the design, achievements, and future directions of the in-service component of Scarborough's Values Education Project. (SJL)

The author presents an overview of the role of existentialism in the training of counselors and mental health practitioners. Exercises and skill development techniques are also presented for existentially oriented training of psychotherapists, using a workshop format. (HLM)

Describes a summer institute for 56 French, German and Spanish teachers in Idaho, Oregon and Washington, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities as a prototype.

The authors developed a program to facilitate increased awareness of one's own sexuality as a basis for aiding others in that area. The program emphasizes small group participation in order to provide security to explore sexuality and its effects on interpersonal relationships. Overall response has been favorable. (Author)

Describes the design of a workshop intended to resolve teacher-administrator conflicts at the building level. (Author/IRT)

The staff of the University of Colorado Child Health Associate Program critically reviewed the effectiveness of the program's structure and content during an intensive two-day seminar. Focus was on basic and clinical sciences, psychosocial skills, and proficiency testing, and the evaluations were used to improve the program. (Editor/LBH)