Contributors offer the following suggestions: use the language experience approach with adult beginning readers, remediate adolescent reading attitudes via parents, force students to think through self-propelled reading lessons, and establish a teacher workshop using the participants' content area textbooks. (HTH)

Describes the roles of coordinators leading teachers' workshops dedicated to developing curriculum materials. The analysis of the coordinators' roles, accompanied by detailed maps of competencies needed to fulfill these roles, is intended to serve as a guide for developing a systematic training program for coordinators. (Author/MLF)

Describes the bilingual programs of the Ontario Educational Broadcasting Office (OTEO), in particular the French as a second language series, its history, and its innovative methods. These series have included courses for children, adolescents, and adults supplemented by publications, students telephone monitoring, and weekly workshops. (MES)

Describes a model project developed to teach effective coping skills to the aged. Lists objectives of the program workshops and describes approaches to coping with stress due to life transitions. (Author/RC)

Describes an instructional improvement program to help faculty become aware of and adapt their instructional strategies to the developmental and learning characteristics of students. (Author/CHC)

Highlights are presented of a California in-service fair, the "Teacher Teaser Show." Within a vaudevillian format, 15 minute presentations were made of exciting, successful teaching techniques in various subject areas. Interested audience members could join presenters after the show for more detailed information. Several of the…

Discusses purpose of resume, describes "advertisement" aspect, and encourages participants to inventory their assets and experiences, and to gather information about their chosen occupational areas. Explains traditional formats and offers suggestions for attractive layout and reproduction. Found that persons who talk with others produce…

Reports that a conference for professional chemists, educators in chemistry, and students was held to explore the issue of teaching chemistry to handicapped students. The ideas generated from the participants are intended to be used in preparing a manual of guidelines. (Author/SA)

Discussed is the National Resource for Computation in Chemistry (NRCC) closing as of September 30, 1981. NRCC was the first effort of the U.S. chemical community to create a centralized research facility where chemists could gain access to equipment too costly for individual laboratories to buy and maintain. (Author/DS)

A five-week inservice workshop focusing on methodology training and language skills development for foreign language teachers is described. Coinciding with intensive language programs, the workshop provided teachers with an opportunity for language practice and a lab for observing and applying the instructional strategies they were studying. (PMJ)

Educators must help young men and women prepare for a future of equal opportunity, but these same educators may be bogged down in inaccurate, stereotyped thought patterns. Discusses workshops designed to help educators recognize sex-role stereotyping in vocational programs. Describes the activities and materials used in the workshops. (JOW)

Describes a two-week workshop, the Federal Forum, designed to aid teachers in understanding contemporary political issues. Topics include the executive branch of government, valuing strategy and political parties, teaching models and the U.S. Supreme Court, and questioning techniques and U.S. diplomacy. (KC)

Choice Awareness is a cognitive-affective-behavioral system that goes beyond both communication training and behavioral bartering approaches to marriage enrichment. Couples explore thoughts, feelings, and actions in their relationships and develop personal power in making choices and in taking responsibility for their own lives. (Author)

The Teaching Centers Program of staff development and in-service education gives teachers a voice in planning, developing, and carrying out their own programs. The centers provide services such as recertification courses, graduate courses, in-service credit banks, and individualized professional development. (LRA)

Activities of the Albuquerque Teachers' Learning Center include in-service teacher education workshops, summer study grants, developing and sharing instructional materials and techniques, providing advice on management techniques and classroom environments, and graduate courses. (LRA)