Intended to help parents, teachers, administrators and Special Olympics volunteers better understand the rights and educational needs of handicapped children, the manual is organized into nine competency based guides for use in workshops on the physical education and recreation services mandated by P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped…

This report presents an overview of a two-day workshop designed to introduce librarians, research assistants, and other participants in the Tennessee State Department of Education's Project Support to computer search applications and search negotiation skills. Objectives included a demonstrable mastery of search negotiation technique, a working…

Summaries are presented of workshop presentations which examined instructional practices that have been used successfully by community college faculty. The report first outlines the workshop agenda and then presents a position paper by Barbara E. M. Cannon, who notes that improved instructional delivery systems are a prerequisite for the success…

This handbook on teacher evaluation provides the means for conducting positive, nonjudgmental assessment of teacher performance. The first section presents a sequence for planning and implementing an evaluation of teaching. The second section discusses concepts that are used as a basis for developing procedures to evaluate teaching for…

This two-part learning module was designed to assist student personnel administrators in developing and implementing a training program for student peer counselors. Introductory material presents a rationale for such training programs, examining the usefulness of peer counselors in meeting the informational needs of students at minimal cost and…

The team member's collaborative planning guide and leader's handbook are designed to help the reder work effectively with others to improve career related opportunities for handicapped persons in the community by addresssing and overcoming common barriers to interagency collaboration. The leader's handbook offers guidelines for conducting four…

The facilitator's manual offers information for conducting a workshop to teach basic team theory and skills which will enable regular and special educators as well as parents of handicapped children to form effective decision making individualized education program (IEP) teams. Listed among anticipated outcomes of the training session are to…

The trainer's manual is designed to assist workshop trainees (regular and special educators) in improving their skills and competencies through identification, methods, and remediation principles to modify and adapt curricular offerings to meet the behavioral needs of handicapped children, with emphasis in serving these children in the regular…

This guide defines the concept and function of the public meeting as conducted by a public agency. It offers advice on selecting appropriate meeting places and when best to hold these meetings to encourage maximum citizen participation. The guide discusses the conduct of both formal and nonformal meeting formats. The communication techniques…

This monograph, one of a series initiated by the North Dakota Study Group on Evaluation, describes the background and workings of a set of seminars in which experienced teachers from different schools meet regularly to study children's thinking. Anecdotal accounts from seminar discussions are utilized extensively throughout. Chapter I examines the…

Described is a one-day program providing those persons implementing Individually Guided Education (IGE) programs with a simulated experience of applying an Instructional Programming Model (IPM) to a curricular area. The goal is to develop the major concepts and skills necessary to operationalize an IPM. Information is provided on the program…

The Texas Real Estate Research Center-Texas Education Agency (TRERC-TEA) curriculum workshop was attended by over 40 participants representing 26 Texas community colleges. These participants divided into eight small groups by real estate specialty area and developed curriculum outlines and learning objectives for the following real estate courses:…

A discussion between the leaders of four teacher centers is presented. Participants came from Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, and Burlington (Wisconsin). The Detroit and Philadelphia centers are school-district supported, serving teachers in multiracial, low-income schools throughout the cities. The Chicago and Burlington centers are independent,…

This how-to handbook describes a two-day, one-day and two-hour program suitable for use in a counselor education curriculum. Materials include introductory exercises, pre- and post-test instruments, communication activities, lectures and evaluation sheets. The focus of the project is to raise the consciousness of professionals in regard to sex…

A series of nine workshops delivered via satellite under the Appalachian Education Satellite Project (AESP) during the summer of 1977 was evaluated in terms of participant characteristics and workshop effectiveness. Workshop topics included special education, child abuse, diagnostic and prescriptive reading instruction, cardiovascular physical…