The technical students of West Hill Secondary School built a display booth to advertise the Grey Bruce area (Canada) as a tourist attraction. (Author)

Fifty-nine resident advisor trainees participated in an experiential training program aimed at increasing personal awareness and developing counseling, communication, and leadership skills. Pre/post personality and relationship testing indicated that the training program was effective in the relationship areas, with differential results for males…

The author outlines and discusses nine suggestions that will aid the teacher in educating students in the "art" of listening. (BP)

Addressograph Multigraph's training facility brings field personnel in and also creates courses to be sent out. (Author)

Discusses the five Framework goals and presents them in tabular form. (ND)

Although Language and Literacy research has become an impetus for change in the K-12 arena, Developmental and Adult Education practices have evolved little as a result of such inquiries. Driving instruction away from rote practice of discreet skills, educators have the opportunity to depart from deficit models of education and open up the…

Topics are: aspects in the systematic acquisition of firm, lasting and ready-to-use knowledge and skill as a basis of instruction; nature of language knowledge; the dialectic of knowledge acquisition and the development of skill; intensive learning; and the design of vocabulary drill units. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

A BASIC (Behaviour, Attitudes, Skills, Intentions and Contexts) approach which teaches verbal and non-verbal skills is applied to training managers and employers in reading efficiency. (BP)

Understanding and interacting constructively with others are skills that training can develop; unskilled professionals can actually be damaging. A model based on Robert Carkhuff's THE ART OF HELPING is presented for managers interested in "helping"--which occurs when one person in an interaction leaves with more than he came with. (Author/AJ)

The project described in this report explored the effectiveness of a collaborative effort of parents and school personnel in the training and generalization of social skills for socially deficient children. Five students (aged 8-11), classified as behaviorally handicapped or learning disabled, served as subjects and were grouped with…

Cortical blindness is defined and its diagnosis is explained. Guidelines and sample activities are presented for use in a cognitive/visual/multi-sensory stimulation program to produce progress in cortically blind infants. The importance of using the eyes from birth through early development in order to form the nerve pathways responsible for…

The first chapter of this manual for tennis instructors provides an overview of the game of tennis, a brief history of the background of skill testing in tennis, and general instructions for using the manual. The second chapter presents tests for ground stroke, serve and volley, as well as suggestions on selecting the most appropriate tests.…

This oral language program, designed for children ages 3 to 5, is divided into 11 sections covering the themes of self and senses; family, home, and friends; teddy bears; school and community; colors; food; animals; clothes; summer fun; holidays; and vehicles. Numerous cutouts are provided to prepare for the activities in this book, and each…