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Link Enterprises, Inc., Montgomery, AL. – 1973
The goal of the project was to train a nucleus of vocational educators in curriculum preparation and modification of instructional material to enable disadvantaged and handicapped students to achieve success in career preparation programs. Over 1200 vocational educators across the country participated in one-week workshops designed to achieve the…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Handicapped Students
Valentine, Ivan E.; Lowery, Nelson W. – 1971
The five papers contained in this document were written by individuals with nationally recognized expertise on the selected subjects and designated experts presented reviews of the papers during the institute. Topics include: (1) "An Assessment of Present Information Systems and Implications for Vocational Education" by Douglas C. Towne, (2)…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Needs, Educational Planning, Information Systems
Kirby, Fred W. – 1971
Described is a projected 40-hour staff training program in general educational principles for personnel in early childhood education centers. Three developmental goals of early childhood educational programs are said to be: wholesome self concept, acceptable social concepts, and aesthetic concepts. Program aspects discussed are: educational…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Objectives, Exceptional Child Education, Guidelines
McAllister, James W. – 1970
This report deals with a workshop type in-service training program in interpersonal relations involving the various categories of school personnel with each other, with area, regional, and/or national consultants, and with the consultative team from the School Improvement Center at the University of Georgia. The program was conducted during a two…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Human Relations, Institutes (Training Programs), Intergroup Relations
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ., Blacksburg. – 1970
This summer institute emphasizes the establishment of minimum measurable standards of attainment in agricultural engineering phases of teacher education in agriculture. Speeches presented are: (1) "Where We Are in Agricultural Mechanics Education," by Alfred H. Krebs, (2) "Research Offerings for More Effective Teaching in Agricultural Mechanics,"…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Conference Reports, Educational Objectives
Tufts Univ., Medford, MA. – 1972
This report summarizes the Institute's program and presentations for occupational and career education teachers and counselors. In addition to lectures, films were shown and discussed and field trips were made to vocational-technical schools. Materials from one school's guidance department and from a community health vocational training program…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Guidance, Counselor Training
Sylvester, Ralph K.; Weagraff, Patrick J. – 1971
Designed as one of 10 institutes for the inservice training of professional personnel responsible for vocational-technical education in western metropolitan areas, the major focus of this institute was to promote optimal opportunities to develop awareness of the value of coordination in expanding the potential of vocational educatio in…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Education, Conference Reports, Educational Change
Havice, Doris W. – 1970
The director's report on the Summer Institute on the Teaching of the Humanities held at Miles Colleges in 1969 is presented. The Institute's objectives were to: (1) present to teachers of the humanities, particularly in the 8 predominantly Negro colleges in Alabama, the importance and the content of black humanities as they have developed to the…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Education, Black Students, Black Teachers
HORTON, AIMEE I. – 1966
THREE EXAMPLES OF RACIALLY INTEGRATED, RESIDENTIAL ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS CONDUCTED FOR THE TRAINING OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS IN THE SOUTH WERE EXAMINED. THE PROGRAMS STUDIED WERE (1) A 1955 WORKSHOP ON SCHOOL DESEGREGATION, ONE OF A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS DEVELOPED BY THE HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL, AN ADULT EDUCATION CENTER IN RURAL…
Descriptors: Black Leadership, Civil Rights, Comparative Analysis, Educational Programs
Pollard, Frances M., Ed. – 1976
Included in these Proceedings are papers and discussion transcriptions of the 1975 Personnel Evaluation Institute. The collected papers deal with the theme of personnel performance evaluation in public, academic, and special libraries. Topics include management fundamentals, developing and using personnel evaluation systems, the library director…
Descriptors: Administration, College Libraries, Conference Reports, Conferences
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Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA). – 1975
This report summarizes the African Regional Seminar for Advanced Training in Systematic Curriculum Development and Evaluation that was held at Achimota, Ghana, July 14-August 15 1975. Attending the seminar were 67 participants from 12 African countries, including Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Swaziland,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Conference Reports, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Design
Kaplan, Eugene H. – Sea World, 1977
Describes institutes and field stations available for teaching tropical marine biology. (SL)
Descriptors: Field Trips, Institutes (Training Programs), Instruction, Marine Biology
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Black, Watt L. – Peabody Journal of Education, 1977
Law Focused Education, Inc., a Texas nonprofit educational organization, has developed innovative programs designed (1) to promote law-related education among inservice social studies teachers and (2) to promote the incorporation of law-focused concepts into the graduate and undergraduate curriculum of those institutions with teacher education…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Experience Programs
Workman, Susan; And Others – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1987
After participating in a 4-week demonstration project focusing on enriching skills in cognition, memory, convergent and divergent thinking, creativity, and problem solving, 68 potentially gifted 4- and 5- year-olds (many from culturally-diverse and/or low socioeconomic backgrounds) made significant gains in their ability to reason with figures and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Creative Development, Demonstration Programs
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Fanselow, John; Candlin, Chris – ELT Journal, 1988
Two staff members of the first Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Summer Institute held outside the United States commented on the reasons for and the objectives of the institute, preoccupation of the participants, course types, main interests of participants, and suggestions for future institutes. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Professional Autonomy
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