Evaluation designs are presented for these work components of the Improving Teaching Competencies Program (ITCP): (1) developing, implementing, and evaluating a strategy for disseminating selected ITCP instructional systems in Individually Guided Education (IGE) schools; (2) developing, implementing, and evaluating a strategy for disseminating…

A report on how one school got its faculty more involved with instructional audiovisual technology on a daily basis. (Author)

The Council for Area Planning of Educational Services (CAPES) was formed as a consortium of formal and informal educational institutions in the Fox Valley area of north central Illinois to promote the sharing of educational programs and pooling of resources in the use of ITV. (Author)

The author describes the steps as necessary to implement a successful conference. The steps are: (1) articulate purpose; (2) select dates; (3) select consultants; (4) decide on publicity; and (5) define registration methods. (Author/HMV)

A national computer services network simulation model was used in a 3-day gaming exercise involving 16 institutional teams who made decisions about their likely long-term network participation. Participants were able to react to others' decisions and actions, and to critical overriding political, economical, and organizational issues. (CMV)

The purpose of the described assertion-training workshop was to give participants some knowledge of the process and content of the job interview and assertive verbal and nonverbal interview behavior. (Author)

Describes a four-day workshop in written composition as a model for inservice programs. (DD)

This paper presents a three-session workshop model designed to integrate exploratory research and service to childfree couples and describes the pilot workshop and research from which it was derived. This workshop design maximizes utilization of participants' insights so as to illuminate conceptual and practical issues associated with voluntary…

Describes a parent workshop designed to teach parents how to teach survival reading skills by using menus, signs, and cereal boxes. (MKM)

A comprehensive, inservice staff renewal program is described. (MM)

Reviews approaches and specialties of six big-name educational consultants: Lee Canter, Vic Cottrell, Fenwick English, Ivan Fitzwater, Madeline Hunter, and Marian Leibowitz. Discusses reasons for hiring consultants (including delivery of unpleasant messages) and cautions districts to seek local talent, match consultants and tasks, and support…

The sheltered workshop model for the retarded is being changed to a non-sheltered community and business model of vocational services in Detroit, Michigan. Methods used included creation of their own businesses by rehabilitation companies and provision of job training and placement within businesses by an on-site trainer. (DB)

Comparisons of the nature and frequency of the instructional interactions and work-related behavior of 15 workers in nonsheltered vocational environments with 15 in sheltered environments revealed that the workers in sheltered environments engaged in significantly more instructional interactions with supervisors and exhibited significantly fewer…

This report on 1984 Drexel University/Free Library of Philadelphia conference on older children's literature includes Keynote address, "Portraits Beyond Pictures," by Jean Karl, Vice President and Director of Children's Book Department of the Atheneum; reports on author workshops; and Carolyn W. Field's acceptance speech on her receipt of Drexel…

The article describes services for mildly handicapped/mainstreamed students of the Extraordinary HOMEwork Line (a homework hotline), face-to-face tutoring, and family tutoring workshops. (CL)