The workshop improved participant attending behavior, sensitivity and listening skills, ability to give and receive feedback, and appropriate regulation of affection needs in interpersonal relationships. (Author)

The article is an attempt to introduce adult educators and other community leaders to the Forum. The Forum aims at a nationwide simultaneous dialogue about our country. Adult education could emerge as a permanent national necessity and an inseperable aspect of citizenship. (Author/BP)

Teacher workshops were planned around four basic metric topics: prefixes, linear measurement, volume, mass and temperature. Objectives and activities used are presented. Plans for development and implementation of student materials are described. (SD)

The Furniture and Industry Training Board set out in 1965 to find a means of successfully implementing management training in small firms. The author describes research efforts undertaken by the Board which led to the development of the training program now in use--management development based on company appraisal. (AJ)

Summer employment and participation in professional programs offer the vocational agriculture teacher the unique opportunity to attain excellence in his program. Most administrators appreciate the teacher's efforts and the resulting well-planned and implemented programs. (MW)

The new president of the International Council for Adult Education addresses a New Delhi workshop, setting forth the parameters within which participants should function as they address the objectives: preparation of (1) an adult educators' manual, and (2) a blueprint for the Asian Regional Institute for Adult Education. (AJ)

A report is given of the Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the AATSP held at Denver, Colorado, November 25-26 and 29-30, 1974, at which time the AATSP, AATF and ACTFL met together for the first time. (RM)

For the last five years Western Illinois University has conducted work experience programs for putting secondary teachers and students with secondary teaching as their objective in direct contact with the business world so they may learn about the value of cooperative work experience programs at the secondary level. (Author)

The article describes two relatively uncomplicated methods of reducing resident labor in public institutions for the mentally retarded and the successful pursuit of this goal in New Jersey State institutions. (Author/DB)

The Center for Educational Leadership was established in New York City in 1984 to meet the objective of institutionalizing the effective leadership and staff development practices necessary to sustain school improvement. It is a catalyst and a facilitator which enables educational leaders to apply their instructional and management expertise…

The Parent Involvement Research Program assessed the extent of parental involvement in the educational process of handicapped children in Kansas, and implemented three training models in urban and rural areas to increase parent participation levels. The three training models were teacher-to-parent contact, parent-to-parent contact, and community…

This booklet contains summaries of workshop presentations at the conference on community development. This conference brought local community officials and leaders together with interested citizens to learn about successful rural community development activities occurring in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Sessions covered four main…

This document describes a training program provided to faculty, staff, and upperclassmen group co-leaders of the Academic Orientation workshops at Ursinus College. The text describes the specific objectives and methods used to conduct these freshmen workshops. There is widespread agreement that optimal education requires students to learn through…

The goals of the Beginning Teacher Induction Center at Glassboro State College, New Jersey, include providing beginning teachers with information based on research and development, as well as training, and technical assistance. The program provides support for beginning teachers by expanding professional learning experiences and helping beginning…