This resource booklet describes 33 programs sponsored by the California-based Dissemination Network for Adult Educators (DNAE). The programs are arranged under the following headings: (1) Adult Basic Education (ABE), (2) Assessment, (3) Competency-Based Education (CBE), (4) English as a Second Language (ESL), and (5) Vocational English as a Second…

Described in this document are workshop activities and materials designed to introduce caregivers working with infants and toddlers to new curriculum ideas. A packet of handouts are provided to explain infant/toddler group care environments, daily scheduling patterns, center made activities, and toys and games. All of the steps necessary to…

The practicum described in this report addressed the expressed need and desire of parents of special needs children in Marblehead Massachusetts to participate in a support group to help solve mutual problems and discuss shared frustrations. A series of four workshops for parents was developed. Goals of the practicum were (1) to have parents take…

The paper criticizes the practice of providing sheltered occupational environments to severely handicapped individuals and considers ways in which public school programs and adult service systems can be arranged to maximize vocational functioning. Following an operational definition of meaningful work, the chapter analyzes reasons for the…

This is the final paper in a series of three on SYS IV, a computer-based management system developed by the PLATO Curriculum Project (PCP) which tests students, routes students to lessons, stores detailed records of online student activity, and keeps summary records of student activities. An introduction describes how the system simultaneously…

This article considered the presentations, discussions, and group directions that focused on both methods and content of instruction and curriculum, for both the special educator and the art educator. (Author/RK)

The adult educational methods eliminate teaching but draw upon and mobilize knowledge and understanding already existing in individuals, making it generally available: (1) a type of brainstorming which avoids one-track discussion and one-member domination, and (2) a structured, task-based, personal encounter utilizing resource packets. (Author/AJ)

Presented are techniques for establishing and criteria for evaluating an in-service education program for teachers of gifted children. (SB)

Elementary teachers participating in a Cooperative College School Science Program were given attitude questionnaires at several times during a two-year period. Significant improvements in attitudes towards science and science teaching during a 4-week summer workshop were found. (SD)

The California and Minnesota State Departments of Education collaborated in the development and evaluation of a model for training inservice elementary teachers on the metric system. Evaluation indicated that the workshop sequence developed was adequate for transmitting both information and desirable attitudes to teachers. (SD)

The resource directory describes 76 commercially available off-the-shelf and customized training programs and courses to help business organizations train salesmen. Audio, computer-based, correspondence, filmstrip, videotape, and mixed-media programs as well as programs in print and workshops and seminars are listed, with instructions for…

The author describes a method for presenting Carkhuff's model of a helping relationship which involves three-to five-hour workshops. The training scheme is a sequential approach to the attending, responding, initiating and communicating stages found in a helping relationship. (Author/SE)

A self-instructional program on decision making was used in conjunction with workshops to introduce the staff of an instructional materials company to the decision tree process as they used it to study their own film production problem. (Author/MS)

Successful integration of mentally handicapped workers from an adult training center into community employment involves sympathetic management attitudes, adequate task training and supervision, and competence in such skills as self-care, mobility, handling money and recognizing various public signs. (CL)