A camp that is establishing a challenge course or climbing wall must ensure program safety. Discusses financial planning, selecting a contractor, adhering to standards for construction, inspections, staff training, screening of participants, and the administrative challenge of implementing and documenting proper actions. Sidebar discusses a study…

Service providers (n=63) were interviewed regarding menstrual management decision making for women with intellectual disabilities. The interviews focused on decision-making bases, opinions about decision-making processes, enhancing practical support for the young women and their families, and reviewing staff training and service delivery.…

At a round-table discussion, five camp caretakers identified common camp maintenance problems. Snow loads, wooden floors, storage of lake equipment, removal of grass cuttings and leaves, local suppliers, vandalism and trespassing, swimming pools, assigning work, use of outside contractors, decisions to replace or repair, job satisfaction, and…

Technologies should be integrated into teaching and used in conjunction with learner-centered pedagogical strategies. Principals can help by creating a vision; providing administrative support; involving teachers; providing sufficient time, equipment and access; modeling teacher behaviors; promoting learning transfer; stressing classroom…

Employers are responsible for sexual harassment perpetrated by a supervisor. Camps may be responsible for sexual harassment between campers. Steps to reduce liability include providing multiple channels for reporting sexual harassment; having written policies prohibiting sexual harassment and procedures for reporting it; posting these policies and…

Describes an integrated staff development program at Metropolitan Community College in Nebraska. States that the program was designed to more effectively meet the needs of classified staff than traditional staff development models. Reports that the new program is a learner-centered model with redesigned delivery systems, and requires 32 contact…

Discusses the need for staff development and training in higher education due to communication and information technologies and describes a program at RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia) that addressed the adoption of computer-facilitated learning, including a distributed learning system and a learning technology…

Presents staff tools for dealing with upset campers whose parents are divorced or separating, such as acknowledging and listening. Gives tips and sample legal language on how to determine marital status and parenting arrangements; whom to call with questions; and which parent can enroll, visit, authorize medical treatment for, and pay the bill for…

Clarifies the meaning of knowledge management and gives examples of organizations that overtly practice it. Outlines four steps in knowledge management: (1) making knowledge visible; (2) building knowledge intensity; (3) building knowledge infrastructure; and (4) developing a knowledge culture. Discusses managing people as assets, librarians as…

Notes that financial pressures in British further education colleges are causing some downgrading of lecturers' skills. Examples of human resource development in industry show the need to recognize the sophisticated professional work lecturers perform and to invest in appropriate staff development. (SK)

Training needed to implement technological and organizational change in small- and medium-sized enterprises is restrained by lack of systematic organization, negative effects of organizational and personnel structures, and different interpretations of managerial tasks. Article suggests that managers should strive to create the necessary…

Describes a formative evaluation of a one-day introductory computer-based training course for university employees using a new online financial and purchasing system. Evaluated the effectiveness of the training, identified appropriate revisions that were incorporated into the training program, and examined learner attitudes toward the course.…

The camp community is plagued by various stereotypes, including that camps and their staff are excessively happy, of poor quality, focused on partying and debauchery, scary, or overly strict. These cliches are perpetuated by the mass media. Each stereotype is discussed, and strategies for countering them during staff training are presented. (TD)

Analysis of the discourses of British further education staff development officers, preservice teachers, and teachers and students involved in General National Vocational Qualifications revealed differing constructions of learners. Communities of practice in each instance were shaped by different conditions and the policy context of postcompulsory…

Describes the change strategies involved in moving a mediocre child care program onto the road to excellence. Highlights strategies focusing on changing staff perceptions of themselves and their practices with families, obtaining honest observations of staff, visiting other programs for inservice training, examining educational practices in terms…