The document contains a general information sheet, a curriculum calendar for 1976, and course descriptions for the following General Management Training Institute courses: advanced management seminar, executive seminar, management and group performance, management of scientific and engineering organizations, managerial decision making, middle…

On the basis that one of the primary goals for an inservice institute introducing an innovative curriculum should be to change the participants' philosophy of teaching, this study analyzed the achievement of this goal in several inservice institutes designed to prepare teachers for implementing the Elementary Science Study (ESS) and the Science…

This booklet outlines the details of a training workshop to provide Right to Read directors with the knowledge and skills necessary to develop comprehensive reading programs for their districts. In the first section, 26 criteria for the development of successful reading programs are listed under the three categories of organization and…

Presented are proceedings and materials from a special study institute (1973) designed to provide classroom teachers of trainable and educable mentally retarded, physically handicapped, deaf, blind and learning disabled children with information on outdoor education for handicapped children. Explained are program objectives such as demonstrating…

This report of the Association of University Evening Colleges and the National University Extension Association contains: (1) AUEC-NUEA definitions; (2) academic subdivisions, with explanations of scope; (3) occupational specialties or technologies, with explanations of scope; (4) AUEC-NUEA programs and registrations by institutions; (5) AUEC-NUEA…

The booklet describes a functional approach to evaluation of instructional materials which resulted from Project CHILD, a research effort to validate identification, intervention, and teacher education programs for use with language disabled children. Explained is a summer training program for teachers in the evaluation of materials which stressed…

This document describes the objectives and activities of a State-coordinated training program in curriculum evaluation. Seventy-five Maryland education supervisors and five from adjacent States were trained in identification, formulation, and evaluation of instructional objectives for science, mathematics, and humanities programs. Participants…

This is a record of the proceedings of the First Faculty Desegregation Institute held at Bishop College. Included is a chronology of program activities (lectures, field trips, etc.). Position papers on intergroup relationships, disadvantaged children, race relations in America, and the nature of prejudice for the major part of the record. In…

Consisting of materials presented to the institute on evaluation of the Illinois gifted program, the document presents papers on educational evaluation and the evaluator's role in education. Also, the development of evaluation designs is considered and four evaluation plans are detailed. Questions regarding evaluation are listed; also listed…

An intensive 2-week recreation management institute plan, with proceedings of 20 sessions, is presented in this 1967 document. The primary goal of the institute was to provide systematic methods for (1) upgrading and improving the recreation knowledge of middle management recreation personnel and (2) developing or refining their recreation…

The program for training teachers of disturbed preschoolers conducted at the Department of Child Study at Tufts University is described in terms of origin and need, administrative concerns, and the philosophy regarding the role of a teacher with the emotionally disturbed. Additional aspects of the program which are discussed include the training…

The Institute was held for school librarians who had experience in organizing and administering the printed media programs, but needed training in selection, organization and use of non-book materials, under a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. The criteria for selection of particpants required eight semester hours of library science, one…

In 1960 Dr. Mohan Sinha Mehta, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Rajasthan, proposed the Department of Adult Education. Canada was chosen as a source of help, because the comprehensive purpose and program of university extension in North American approximated the needs of India. Dr. Mehta sought financial help from Canada via the Canada…

Prepared by participants in the 1968 National Defense Education Act Institute on Wood Technology, this syllabus is one of a series of basic outlines designed to aid college level industrial arts instructors in improving and broadening the scope and content of their programs. The guide is divided into three sections, the first of which deals with…

The first dozen years of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Summer Institutes Program, 1954-65 are reviewed. The full report entitled "An Investment in Knowledge" is scheduled for publication in 1969. The forerunner of NSF Summer Institutes was held during July and August of 1954 at the University of Washington. Fifty-three high…