Describes the activities of a Florida workshop designed to inform local service providers of the National Agenda for the Education of Children and Youths with Visual Impairments, Including Those with Multiple Disabilities, and to motivate them to design strategies to meet the eight goals of the National Agenda. (CR)

Discusses how educators can provide parents of gifted students with the skills, knowledge, and assistance necessary to nurture their children's social, emotional, and intellectual development. Strategies include developing parent workshops, encouraging parent participation, and providing preservice teachers with coursework that focuses on…

Describes methodology workshops for English-as-a-Foreign-Language teachers that encourage more teacher autonomy. Activities were selected that can be used many times over if they are adapted by teachers to suit their own teaching contexts. (Author/VWL)

Nineteen elementary grade teachers who worked with minority, rural, and disadvantaged gifted students participated in a workshop on interdisciplinary active learning. Pretest and posttest scores revealed increased levels of perceived knowledge, skills, and implementation. Mixed results were obtained from comparison with a control group. (DB)

Teacher training programs must go beyond "how-to" workshops to facilitate understanding about technology's relationship to learning. An International School of Bangkok training program transforms teachers into learners immersed in technology-rich environments. The process involves seven phases: getting ready, learning about technology,…

Describes how a request to help evaluate an innovative bilingual project in an international school led to positive changes in project implementation and a more constructive way forward for the main participants. The article presents a model, called a "SPARE wheel" in order to emphasize the cyclical nature of evaluation. Results indicate the…

Discusses programs developed at the Andrews University (Michigan) library to help international students develop library skills. Bibliographic instruction workshops and English Language Institute classes are described; and guidelines for successful workshops are suggested, including hands-on experience, targeting individual needs, publicity, and…

This article describes how an early childhood education center in Peoria, Illinois, used physical educators as ongoing consultants/collaborators to develop a structured movement curriculum. Five interactive workshops for teachers provided training in movement principles and skills; individual consultations; and information on developmentally…

Studied perceived education interests, experiences, and learning preferences of parents of young children, usefulness of group characteristics in planning parent education as evidenced by a needs assessment process, and the importance of such a process. Found (1) parental interest in parenting help; (2) parental education level effects on learning…

Four articles address music and movement in early childhood education: (1) "For the Love of Music--and Children"(Cindy Smith); (2) "Music: The Great Connector" (Thomas Moore); (3) "Learning through Music: The Support of Brain Research" (Elizabeth B. Carlton); and (4) "Music and Movement Bring Together Children of…

Investigates ways in which instructional techniques including discussions, case studies, and workshops can be delivered in a virtual classroom on the Internet based on experiences at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). Topics include collaborative and cooperative learning; metaphorical classrooms; and student-created Web sites. (Author/LRW)

Article presents a brief and potentially effective method of group education about posttraumatic stress for "victims" of posttraumatic stress, significant others, and health workers. Appropriate use of group education for posttraumatic stress, it is argued, offers empowering meaning and purpose, and faith and hope for healing and well…

Describes the Identity Workshop, a club established in a suburban high school for students opposed to bullying and bigotry. Developed as a teacher response to the presence of anti-Semitic "Skinheads" in the student body, the club brought about positive changes in the school climate. (SLD)

The Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky is 1 of 34 Challenger Center sites for space science education nationally and the only one in a rural area. Since the center's opening in March 1999, some 5,500 sixth-graders have "flown" space missions that involved using teamwork and math and science skills to solve problems and complete the…

Examines Council of the Southern Mountains programs concerned with the urban adjustment of rural Appalachian migrants, 1954-71. Describes urban adjustment workshops for educators and social services providers, held at Berea College and in target cities; and the Chicago Southern Center, which provided adult education, youth programs, job training,…