This is the report of a workshop to provide women scientists with an opportunity to learn from each other and to gain support, encouragement, and practical knowledge that could assist them in pursuing their careers. Participation data are summarized according to institutional affiliations, areas of study, and each person's academic status. Data…

The project's primary purpose was to train vocational administrators in developmental strategies and analytical techniques for improving cost-effectiveness of vocational programs. Administrators would then be able to function as change agents in diffusing strategies and techniques throughout the U.S. The specific objectives were to (1) identify…

AS A RESULT OF COOPERATIVE PLANNING BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE AND A LARGE INSURANCE COMPANY, 57 TOP MANAGERS WERE GIVEN A TWO UNIT MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. GROUP B BEGAN TRANING FIVE MONTHS AFTER GROUP A. THE WORKSHOP SESSIONS INCLUDED DISCUSSIONS, CASE STUDIES, BUZZ GROUPS, AND ROLE PLAYING. IN PHASE ONE,…

A project to evaluate the effectiveness of 14 preschool centers in combining the services of family, community, and professional resources in a program to increase children's school readiness and potential for academic success involved eight hundred 3- and 4-year-olds and their parents. Meetings were held to teach parents to reinforce children's…

Forty-two teachers and supervisors, selected by the Texas Education Agency, participated in a 2-week workshop designed to provide an intensive study of the disadvantaged and to increase the effectiveness of teachers of culturally disadvantaged youth, primarily in the area of occupational training. Scholars in the fields of sociology and psychology…

This handbook was prepared to assist administrators and instructors of teacher-aide personnel to deal with the expanding recruitment, training, and utilization of paraprofessionals in education. Some of the objectives of the handbook are (1) to define the role of teacher-aide, (2) to establish guidelines for their preservice and inservice…

The purpose of the investigation was to determine the extent to which the utilization of a workshop can modify attitudes of classroom teachers toward greater and more realistic acceptance of exceptional children. Teachers and administrators from four schools were provided 15 workshop sessions within 30 weeks. Meetings included a lecture on an area…

This set of workshop materials and activities is designed for persons who teach academic and clinical courses to students in professional allied health programs. The workshop consists of a set of short didactic and more extensive experiential activities. The workshop is organized into four main parts. Each part is labeled an activity. The first…

This report summarizes and interprets a workshop which focuses on youth research--where it is intellectually, what it has learned over the past decade, and where it is going. In addition, practical suggestions for appropriate roles which government could play in youth research, other than simply to supply more funds, are discussed. From over 60…

This coordinator's guide is designed to assist in leading a workshop covering four competency based modules in Job Placement, Follow-Up and Follow-Through. The purpose of the modules is to help the placement coordinators plan, implement, and evaluate a program of job placement services in a school setting. The content areas of the four modules are…

The Library Networking Committee, whose goal is to determine and establish means of resource sharing within Northern Virginia, set up a series of workshops in ten subject areas--art studies, careers and vocational guidance, energy and environment, genealogy, gerontology, law, music, professional education, state and local documents, and urban…

This publication contains the proceedings from a workshop held in Washington, D.C. in December, 1977. The purpose of the conference was to examine project PROCEED (Program for Continuing Engineering Education) as an innovative approach to technology transfer in energy efficiency education and the potential relationships of the project with the…

All but one of the articles contained in the book were presented, either verbatim or in expanded form, at a series of Parent Workshops conducted by the Mountain Plains Regional Center for Services to Deaf-Blind Children. Titles and authors include "Parents Are People" (J. Teske), "Swimming Pool Activities for Deaf-Blind…

A growing movement to improve the quality of teaching has been called "faculty development." It is based on three assumptions: the primary professional activity of most faculty is teaching; instructional behaviors are learned skills, attitudes, and goals; and faculty can be taught how to improve their classroom performance. Interest in faculty…

Beginning with a three-week institute at Western Carolina University in the summer of 1972, continuing with nine workshops at five universities in 1973, and concluding with extended study conferences at Appalachian State University and Queens College in 1974 and 1975, the Institute for Undergraduate Curricular Reform has promoted its theme of…