A pilot program designed by Drexel University and the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia orientates junior high school students to the intricate problems of world nutrition education. Audiovisual presentations, role playing, and group debate are among the teaching methods employed. (LH)

A west coast community college English department used the following three approaches to seek more effective cross discipline writing awareness: in-house techniques--including topics from various disciplines in classroom assignments; meeting-them-halfway techniques--providing resource people and materials for all instructors and students who…

Needs, goals, and characteristics of inservice programs in reading are discussed. Careful planning and organizing are emphasized; roles of various participants are outlined; and suggested criteria for evaluating the program are discussed. A discussion of survey forms for inservice work in reading suggests areas of application, and sample survey…

Two regional workshops were held to expedite development and improvement in the scope and quality of project training in distributive education. The activities center around the development of instructional projects for high school level distributive education students. Each workshop consisted of about 42 hours of formal instruction, 30 hours of…

This publication presents the speeches and workshop recommendations of participants at the governor's conference on Environmental/Conservation Education. The goals of the conference were to examine the issue areas of environmental/conservation education, to suggest ways and means to increase opportunities for environmental/conservation education…

Five papers from the Workshop on Mathematical Problem Solving sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Study of Learning and Teaching Mathematics are included along with an overview of the interests and history of the Center and its organization of the problem-solving workshop. One paper contains an overview of mathematical problem solving. The…

The document presents a modular in-service training package for parents and educators of handicapped children, to assist their collaboration in the development of individualized education programs (IEPs). Each of the five modules consists of descriptions of specific activities, the materials needed for the activities, and the time required to…

This collection of workshop materials demonstrates how to develop learning modules through examples, illustrations, explanations, case studies, comparisons diagnosis, and prognosis. For the projected workshop, a module is defined as a modularized learning activity package composed of objectives, pretest, learning environments, and posttest. The…

This document discusses how to conduct a needs assessment for inservice teacher education. It states that the form or method of conducting a needs assessment must be decided upon after first considering teacher preferences, cost, and the capabilities of the local organization implementing the survey. Three methods of conducting needs assessment…

This guide for parents, which seeks to apply behavior modification techniques for changing their own as well as their children's behaviors, has two separate parts--a workshop and a workbook. The manual attempts to teach methods of effective parenting and behavior change through programmed instruction in "antecedents-behaviors-consequences." There…

This workbook contains a series of learning packages which can be administered in a workshop setting or used individually. Dealing directly with key aspects of the student council, this book offers: (1) important learning experiences through problem solving; (2) leadership training for responsible citizenship, and (3) the opportunity to work…

It is essential that everyone connected with the supervision of reading be trained so that a system of analyzing reading instruction can be effected. Based on the assumption that the most effective supervision occurs in a one-to-one situation, the training program presented in this document centers on a workshop on supervision with four specific…

This document contains the final report on three two-day regional seminar/workshops and one national invitational seminar/workshop on women in the world of work. The seminar/workshops were designed specifically to further the professional development of leaders in vocational-technical education. During the workshops, speakers with expertise in…

This is a summary of discussion and materials used in a seminar on Cognitive Style Mapping (CSM) of individual learning strengths as a key to an accountable teacher education program based on personalized instruction. CSM refers to a diagnostic technique used to identify a student's relative learning strengths on selected learning variables. This…

This document enables the would be evaluator to witness the evolution of an evaluation form through successive stages of development. Each stage of development is documented by examples and explanations. The subjects of the discussion are: participants' evaluation of inservice teacher workshops, observers' evaluation of participants at the…