Lists step-by-step procedures used in planning and organizing a poetry workshop for English teachers in the Parma, Ohio, area. (SW)

An intrapersonal exercise has been developed that tries to help the individual organize and clarify his ideas and emotions about his group encounter experience. The Zen Art workshop involves painting a self-portrait, going through a series of exercises, and then painting a second self-portrait. (EB)

A New Jersey state law authorizes and directs the Commissioner of Education to establish summer workshops to train selected teachers in the area of drug abuse education, and who, in turn, teach a drug program to secondary school teachers. (DB)

Maria Center for Learning and Life Enrichment in St. Louis (Missouri) offers a leadership training program for youth. (JM)

Recent efforts have been made to transform traditional sheltered workshop employment to transitional employment training in nonsheltered sites for mentally retarded young adults and adults. Benefits (both monetary and nonmonetary) to the individual, employer, and society are described. Disincentives in the financial system are cited as creating a…

The major goal of this study was to determine the effects of an Affective Competencies Training Program on the development of desirable work behaviors. Procedures included identification of format and content, preparation of affective work competency learning modules, implementation of a training workshop, and evaluation of participants' retention…

Describes "Career Development for Women," a workshop designed to provide women with skills necessary to make choices about their careers. Describes various types of women: deciders, explorers, dabblers, and evaders and shows how the coordinator works with them to aid in their decision making. (JOW)

Turnover, reasons for termination, productivity, and number of hours worked as a function of demographic data, workshop settings, and measures of sociability for mentally disabled adults at six sheltered workshop settings were examined. (Author)

Explains why principals must be knowledgeable about microcomputers and describes a workshop put on at the University of Mississippi aimed at increasing "microliteracy." (Author/JM)

Preoccupation with management is stunting our efforts to solve the problems of education. Institutional impotence is being substituted for personal leadership. What is needed are "transformational" leaders, possessing common sense, character, and courage, who can restore high standards to the schools. (Author/WD)

Presents observations by a participant in a teachers' study group on feminism in the classroom. Describes the affective behavior of group members in relation to the author's impressions of the workshop's goals and outcomes. (RL)

A teacher of educationally subnormal children discusses ways in which parents can be encouraged to become involved in their children's education. (CL)