An experimental workshop on the metric system for inservice elementary teachers was held in San Juan, California under the sponsorship of the U.S. Office of Education. (SD)

The organization, goals, and history of the British group, Maths Teachers Anonymous, are discussed. (SD)

The history and goals of a mathematics teachers' center in Carbondale, Illinois are discussed. (SD)

Tested an approach to individualize instruction for the teacher in his environment. Used a pre-post evaluation design with control groups to assess changes occuring in knowledge, opinion, and proposed teaching techniques. Each teacher had four weeks to develop and implement a plan of instruction. The treatment produced significant changes. (Author)

The Master Builders of Iowa, Iowa State University, and the University of Northern Iowa team up on how to attract and prepare more industrial arts and vocational teachers for teaching construction at the secondary and postsecondary levels. (Author/BP)

What happens when the parents and teachers of a neighborhood school are given the opportunity to govern that school - to make decisions about policy, about staff, about educational philosophy? This article is an exciting account of what it really means to trust local individuals to do a responsible job. (Editor)

In interdisciplinary graduate workshop on children's art called "Art Expression in Early Childhood: Implications and Applications" was held for two weeks in July 1973. The workshop stressed the theory that children's art was a primary method by which a child can express his natural, creative, true self. (BP)

Author discusses employing knowledge of group dynamics in conducting a series of sessions with teachers focused around the interaction of teacher and child in the classroom. It is a method of reaching more youngsters, and presents the psychologist with an opportunity to use skills for which he is uniquely trained. (Author/PC)

This paper reports on the synergisms that developed as the authors' university-wide Writing Enhanced Course (WEC) Program was implemented with their university's new core curriculum. The authors evaluate the Pilot Program model of their WEC Program and suggest the directions they plan to take now that the Program is firmly established within the…

Ideally, to gain the best possible understanding of vocations, junior high teachers participating in a prevocational workshop should participate in simple hands-on activities which have been carefully planned by vocational instructors. The procedures for conducting such a workshop are outline. (Author/AJ)

This booklet lists the organizers and describes the agenda of a conference on the theme of respect for, and understanding of, cultural differences as the basis of global community. Workshop sessions are described and three keynote speeches are reprinted, together with four student essays that best captured the conference's theme. The keynote…

The In-Service Teacher Training (INSET) experiment took place in September 1986 and involved 24 German teachers of English and 14 English teachers of German working together over a period of 2 days. The German teachers were participants in a 10-day course in England. Teachers worked together within the community to gather information on topics…

De Anza College's Institute for Computer-Aided Mathematics Instruction (ICAMI) is a direct outgrowth of the computer-aided mathematics program, in California, started at the California college in 1982. ICAMI focuses on the design and dissemination of effective instructional models for: (1) skill building for more efficient problem solving,…

This manual is a guidebook to the development of the Project Enlightenment Parent-Teacher Resource Center and serves as a reference for the replication of this type of center in other communities. The manual consists of three chapters that are conceptualized as building blocks, because they are sequential, incremental, and independent. Block A…

A description is given of the development of a training model designed to provide assistance to school districts in exploring and implementing programs for dealing with high risk students. The program activities are organized and modeled according to thirteen "quality practices" suggested by exemplary programs in the literature and research on…