Briefly discusses reasons why some teachers and teacher educators experience computer anxiety and presents eight suggestions for computer workshops that consider the psychological, as well as the intellectual, factors involved. (MBR)

Outlines aims of professional conferences and discusses conferences as learning experiences and change agents. Discussion of conference focuses on ways to improve conferencing activities, participant preparation, and conference planning and organization. Appendices contain outlines of objectives of a conference on teaching and learning and a…

Evaluated the effectiveness of the Life Choices program in increasing internality and perceived competence in 74 sixth-grade girls. Results indicated the program was successful for working class subjects, but lower class girls showed no increase in internality or knowledge of career alternatives. (JAC)

Urges the need for improved communication among advisers of state and regional press associations. Presents a table detailing results of a survey of association membership, management structure, activities and services, problems, and major accomplishments. Offers suggestions for improving cooperation among advisers of state and regional press…

Becoming a teacher involves a combination of skill, attitude, and knowledge for which a theory of role transition from student to teacher provides a framework. Stages of this process and interventions teacher educators can use to foster movement through the stages are explored. (Author/DF)

Discusses a rationale for counselors at the junior high school and middle school levels to consider presenting training for the parents of children who are at the preadolescent or early adolescent stage of development. Describes actual experiences in developing and presenting such a program. (LLL)

Presents an experiential technique for teaching the family life cycle, where participants are asked to create simulated families and are assigned a series of structured exercises. Includes directions for each exercise, questions designed to develop observation skills, and discussion of specific workshop issues. (Author/LLL)

Offers suggestions, based on own experience with a workshop focusing on graphics, in creating a technical communication workshop involving both the business and the academic community. (MM)

Argues that becoming aware that it is the reader who makes the material interesting is a remedial student's first step toward command of reading. Offers techniques used in college remedial classes and a teachers' workshop to develop this ability. (FL)

Describes the training program for part-time composition staff members at Saginaw Valley State College in Michigan. (FL)

Positive feedback was received on workshops at a Teacher Education Center; however, the author consistently found low teacher participation at the workshops. Data was obtained connecting low attendance to demands on teacher time. This study investigates teacher time demands. (Editor)

The Oregon System in Mathematics Education tries to rid teachers of their long-standing fear of math and help them see it as a useful, problem-solving tool. (Editor)

Effects of self-esteem and values-clarification strategies on value awareness were assessed in an hour values-clarification workshop. Subjects participating in the workshop showed significantly greater gains in value awareness than nonparticipants, confirming that values-clarification strategies are valid means for clarifying personal values of…

Subject-centered conventional education of teachers in the U.S. should be augmented by the growth open to teachers in the informal and innovative atmosphere of teacher centers that develop talents and confidence in the individual and emphasize the more child-centered view that is held in British schools. (JD)

Describes a training workshop for women, designed to provide them with additional information needed to move ahead in their jobs and to help them gain a heightened sense of self-confidence and self-worth. (WL)