The Youth Music Institute, held at the Madison campus of the University of Wisconsin (July 7 to August 1, 1969) was an experimental attempt to open communication between teachers and students by bringing educators into contact with youth music and its creators. (Author)

Paper presented at annual meeting of New York State Committee on English (Syracuse, N.Y., April 1967). (RD)

Describes a high school faculty institute designed to assist teachers in helping students take up chemistry as a career or to continue studies in chemistry. Includes dates and topics covered in the institute since its inception in 1980 and highlights of institute activities. (JN)

Workshops have been used successfully to teach oral delivery consultation skills in a counselor training program. The workshop is offered as a training tool in consultation skills. The use and purpose of workshops are presented, and procedures are demonstrated within counselor education courses. Benefits to counselor trainees are discussed.…

Describes the growth of the Bay Area Writing Project into the National Writing Project, whose 80 regional programs share the goal of improving the teaching of written composition in grades K through l3 through inservice teacher education. Presents evaluative information on this model. (Author/SJL)

A two-week summer institute for teachers and administrators of kindergarten and grade 1 gifted children is described. The purpose of the Institute was to plan strategies for meeting the needs of the young gifted and talented children in their classrooms, schools, or districts. (Author)

This article describes the development and structure of a self-advocacy training program, the Self-Advocacy Leadership Training Institute, to help individuals with disabilities to exercise choice in vocational rehabilitation services and in other areas of life. A pilot program and two institutes were conducted, resulting in the training of 36…

For 22 years, at 166 sites around the world, over 1 million teachers have been teaching each other in nearly identical National Writing Project summer institutes. This article discusses the lessons learned about teacher leadership, the qualities of worthwhile staff development, writing instruction, and educational reform's bumpy landscape. (MLH)

Project Search trains teams of high school teachers in environmental monitoring methodology in a summer institute. The focus is on applying science to real-life learning. (SK)

A study of 192 high school students participating the Pennsylvania Governor's School for Agricultural Sciences found that, regardless of previous agricultural experience, students had more positive views of agriculture and increased agricultural knowledge after completion of the 5-week course. The effects were greatest for students without…

Research centers and institutes are one example of how institutional governance has become increasingly disjointed; as the "suburbs" of the university expand, core governance structures lose influence. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)

This monograph presents in some detail the ways in which Faculty Institutes--professional development opportunities where instructors immerse themselves in site-specific learning activities exactly as students would, though only for several days--allow participants to acquire the skill to design such adventures elsewhere for their own students.…