This curriculum guide describes a course offered to grade 11 and 12 students in production and display workshop. The course is designed to give artistically talented students opportunites to serve community and school through the production of such varied visual aids as signs and posters, sculpture, and displays. This is an education by agreement…

A local evaluation report and an information packet describing activities developed under this mini-grant deal with a supplemental art curriculum on glass work. Over a four month period, a glass workshop was planned to emphasize the creative possibilities of glass and information packets were developed to train teachers to conduct classroom art…

The Tri-Cultural Sensitivity In-Service Training Program, funded by the Federal government under the provisions of Title IV, Public Law 88-352 (Civil Rights Act) of 1964, was developed in response to the results of a system-wide survey of the staff in 1967. Eighty-five percent of the teachers granted that a deficiency in knowledge, understanding,…

Recognizing the problems of reading instruction as a major challenge in education, Educational Professions Development Act (EPDA) Institutes of recent years have funded several programs to develop new methods and materials for teaching in inner-city schools. The project reported here is an EPDA Institute for teachers of disadvantaged children in…

Seventeen library goals of the Santa Barbara High School District are listed along with the objectives and program description for each goal. The duties of the professional librarian and the supporting staff are given for each goal as well as a method of evaluating the program. The appendices contain standards for library materials, staffing,…

The two-day conference included the following: (1) a tutorial on Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) services including those of the National Science Library, COMPENDEX, and the retrospective and current-awareness searches of "Chemical Titles;" (2) a workshop on profiling and search editing, for the aforementioned services; (3)…

A 4-year follow-up study of children in the Rural Child Care Project has shown that greatest losses in intellectual functioning for former project children occurred in the first year of public school among those scoring above 80 on their first Binet but who were retained in grade 1. IQ change during grade 1 was negatively related to attendance at…

A 15-month followup study was made of an experimental group of 79 home economics teachers who attended workshops encouraging adoption of wage-earning emphases in comprehensive high schools and a control group of 79 teachers to determine: (1) the extent and nature of curriculum change, (2) the extent to which curriculum change would have occurred…

The resource manual describes procedures for replication of a 1 year Prescriptive Teaching Workshop project, a Title III educational program designed to maintain the learning disabled elementary school child in the regular classroom with additional special workshop help in order to raise his academic achievement. Evaluation of the student is by a…

About 45 persons, who are affiliated with government agencies, universities, and foundations and whose fields of specialization included economics, sociology, housing, welfare, medicine, education, and nutrition, participated in a workshop on the quality of rural living. Formal papers presented during the initial sessions included: "What…

During the teacher workshop conducted at the Glen Helen Outdoor Education Center at Yellow Springs, Ohio, oral language techniques, Mexican American culture, and outdoor education were given high priority in training teachers to serve migrant children effectively. Four of the workshop presentations have been adapted for this publication. One of…

Communi-Link was designed to assist communities and states in planning and implementing comprehensive adult education and community improvement programs. The Communi-Link process encouraged the development and/or enhancement of "communication linkages" necessary for communities to assess problems, identify resources, and mobilize…

A comprehensive guide on using a newspaper to teach adults in adult and continuing education programs, this publication is a direct result of a Newspaper in the Classroom Production Workshop held in Huntsville, Texas in 1970, and attended by 18 teachers of adult and continuing education. The sections of this teaching guide are as follows: Section…

The types of courses, conferences, and workshops sponsored by the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency tuition-free are listed and described in this pamphlet. The training programs are not representative of all civil defense training available. The 21 courses and conferences listed are: Conferences for Public Officials; Conferences for Business and…

A workshop held on teacher education is discussed. This workshop represented the second phase of a program which sought to encourage and assist institutions of higher education in the western and midwestern States to establish or expand programs in teacher preparation for adult education. Workshop participants met for three days to increase their…