This manual is intended for use primarily as a guide to assist in the planning, organization, and implementation of preservice and inservice training of community educators. The material presented here describes the goal, objectives, basic training and rationale, planning, activities, resources and equipment, and evaluation of each of five…

This lesson plan is designed for use in a 50-minute class to teach practical nursing students to measure blood pressure. The lesson is part of a course on practical nursing. The lesson plan contains references, a list of equipment needed, objectives, and the presentation. The presentation consists of an outline of instruction coordinated with…

The Internet provides opportunities for students in developing countries to interact both with a wide variety of educational resources and with distant students and teachers. For a decade the authors have researched the essential elements to ensure success when technology is introduced in classrooms. Therefore this article focuses on developing…

Intended for use by teachers of health sciences at all levels, by health administrators with staff supervision responsibilities, and by students, this fourth edition (a reprint of the 1976 edition with only minor editorial changes) is intended to help readers acquire three skills: to define the educational objectives of professional training…

This report describes the University of Wyoming's Portal School Program. The program provides inservice teacher training in science to elementary and secondary school teachers. Teacher workshops are organized so that teachers can explore and learn to implement new curricula in their science classes. The Portal School Program is a joint effort of…

This document includes materials presented at a workshop on women and ethnicity. In the first paper the author discusses a study of Title IX Ethnic Heritage Study projects. All but one of 22 projects funded in New York State from 1974-77 were contacted in order to determine if an effort had been made to explore the role of women in the ethnic…

In 1974, the U.S. Office of Education (USOE) created the National Diffusion Network (NDN) in order to bring together representatives of federal, state, and local agencies to promote widespread adoptions of new and innovative programs within and across state boundaries. This goal is accomplished through use of State Facilitator (SF) and…

Describes a new program designed by the University of North Dakota to introduce high school students to aviation at a college level. (BR)

Describes a workshop and pilot program in which over one hundred elementary school teachers attempted to procure an indepth awareness of the local community surroundings. The program was an attempt to further studies relating elementary science and social studies through "inquiry into an urban environment." (EB)

The California State Department of Education has developed a guide on teaching the metric system. The guide will be distributed to every elementary school in the state. Department staff will conduct regional conferences to train local people who in turn will conduct workshops on the use of the guide. (SD)

The implementation of a 10-day Israeli-designed comprehensive pre-elementary education training course for untrained teachers in Singapore is described in this report. The course was designed (1) to provide untrained teachers with experience in setting up an educational environment, (2) to provide trained teachers with the opportunity to share…

The success of a writing across the curriculum project is described in this paper. The paper notes that the first two years of the project, sponsored by internal university grants and state funding, consisted of (1) workshops and training sessions of small numbers of non-English faculty in designing and evaluating writing assignments and in…

A dual workshop/questionnaire approach was used in a needs assessment of adult basic education (ABE) students conducted in Prince George's County, Maryland, in spring 1980. The workshop advanced and clarified the concept of career development to teaching and administrative staff. Participants completed a needs assessment questionnaire according to…

This monograph contains presentations from a training program that was designed to link state vocational rehabilitation agency personnel with the current technology of program evaluation in rehabilitation settings. Part One discusses a model program evaluation unit in state rehabilitation agencies, state agency program evaluation units from the…

Project IMAGES (Improving Management of Adults/Guiding and Educating Staff) was conducted throughout Pennsylvania to provide two three-hour training sessions for the special needs of both experienced and inexperienced staff of adult basic education programs. Instruction was given in the counseling areas of age variance management and the…