This paper describes the use of loss workshops in the classroom to address the needs of students experiencing grief from loss, as a result of death, divorce, relocation, or other severed relationships. The goals of the Loss program are briefly reviewed, i.e., to facilitate acceptance of loss, and to promote personal growth and mental health.…

The new emphasis on oral communication effectiveness and interpersonal competence in the business world challenges educators to design courses that meet the needs of people who need this kind of training but cannot register for routine college courses due to time constraints. The University of North Carolina (Greensboro) department of…

BORN FREE is a project designed as a collaborative effort of university-based counseling psychologists and field-site educators to reduce career-related sex stereotyping in 14 educational institutions. This report describes the evaluation of the five-day 1978 National Summer Institute, a staff development training workshop for educational leaders.…

Designed to be presented in a workshop format, by trainers, to an audience of caregivers of young children, these materials provide two modules for workshop presentations in the areas of first aid and common childhood illnesses as well as an example of a model health policy. The materials for the workshop on common childhood illness discusses in…

This booklet outlines an inservice teacher education workshop that promotes sex equity in elementary school physical education. Participants are made aware of student and teacher attitudes, stereotypes, perceptions, and ways to eliminate sex differentiation in the classroom. Discussion questions, hypothetical problems, audiovisual materials, and…

The group that is properly set-up and operating can save hours of group time. Once the group members know and trust one another it is necessary to identify the specific group tasks that need to be accomplished and to establish ground rules such as kind of meeting, meeting arrangements, expectations of members, and requirements for membership in…

The conference reported on in this document provided a forum for identification, discussion, and recommendation of alternative policies and approaches to the involvement of blacks in the health decisionmaking process in the United States. Recorded and summarized are discussions which were held regarding the state of health policy in America,…

The document presents Module 2, needs of the gifted/talented, of the Star Power modules developed for school personnel who have an interest in or a need to explore the area of gifted and talented education. It is explained in an introductory section that the modules can be used for independent study, for small group interaction, or for a large…

The document presents Module 7, gifted/talented students among the disabled, of the Star Power modules developed for school personnel who have an interest in or a need to explore the area of gifted and talented education. It is explained in an introductory section that the modules can be used for independent study, for small group interaction, or…

Faculty development growing out of a Piagetian curriculum (ADAPT) for the collegiate freshman year at the University of Nebraska is discussed in this paper. ADAPT faculty workshops focusing on the Piagetian theory and applications of the theory in teaching are described. The workshop is evaluated by means of a participant self-report and…

This notebook provides materials for inservice teacher training in the use of the responsive education program for preschool children. Section I presents an overview of the responsive program, lists characteristics of young children and provides a guide to using the training materials. Section II includes a guide to the before-school teacher…

This paper describes a series of in-service workshops on the teaching of writing, conducted for elementary and secondary teachers. After a brief overview of the way in which the workshops were planned, the paper examines the topics dealt with in the workshops: the composing process, varieties of writing, skills of writing, mechanics and…

Presented is an evaluation of a leadership training program to prepare junior high school teachers to use the Introductory Physical Science Curriculum. Emphasis of the leadership program is on administrators and their problems, leaders and their problems, and teachers. Recommendations are given. Included in the appendices are sample letters of…

The report evaluates a global education project which was carried out during the 1978-1979 school year by 18 teachers from six elementary schools in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. The project staff aimed at incorporating a global education approach into social studies classes involving over 400 students in grades one through…

This report summarizes the efforts made to provide linker training to educational personnel at the local and regional levels in West Virginia. The workshop evaluation follows a review of: (1) the rationale for the National Institute of Education's funding of regionally located Research and Development Exchanges; (2) the workshop planning procedure…