The responsibility of organized medicine in the area of continuing education was the focus of this conference. Papers presented at the conference and summaries of workshop discussion groups comprise this document. The papers are: The Purpose of the Conference; Maintenance of Physician Competence; Motivation for Continuing Medical Education; Peer…

A discussion of human behavior is presented. The methods involved in planning the Institute, the teaching-learning process, and the experiences encountered by the participants are summarized. The document has three main parts. Part I contains lecture abstracts by invited speakers. Part II reviews the experiences of the Personal Interaction…

This article concerns a summer environmental education institute designed for inner city teachers. Course instructors concentrated on first-hand experimental learning activities. Teachers worked on short studies of the areas designed to acquaint them with the natural environment. The need for environmental education in urban schools was stressed.…

A description is presented of the annual, week-long small schools summer institute sponsored by the Oregon Small Schools Association, and the Oregon Small Schools Program. (KR)

Traces individual physicists and financial considerations associated with the historical development of academic research and research facilities in physics at the University of California (Berkeley), California Institute of Technology, and Stanford University from the 1890's to the 1930's. (SL)

Post-training assessment of family day care providers (N=13), who participated in Family Day Care Project training sessions and biweekly on-site consultations and then mainstreamed young handicapped children (N=27) into their homes, demonstrated an overall significant positive change in knowledge and attitudes toward disabilities and improved day…

Describes the nature of the "new" social history and a summer institute which introduced it to high school teachers in Illinois. Describes the institute, examines difficulties in "new" history implementation, and identifies future directions for "new" historians. (GEA)

The Hebron Advanced Placement Institute, a group of teachers spending a week in the summer examining methods and materials for Advanced Placement English, is described. Its mission is to engender excitement for the discipline and to enable its participants to face confidently the challenge of AP instruction. (MLW)

Describes the Empire State Institute for the Performing Arts, the first state-mandated educational theatre for children in America, established for the youth and educators of New York State. (PD)

A former educator who currently holds a management position in private industry relates perceptions of the differences between programs in education and business. Clients, content, and training processes of both settings are explored. (DF)

Demonstrations are a mainstay of summer institutes, but the authors of this report noticed that responses to demonstrations lacked the energy and thoughtfulness that characterized other activities in the summer institute. So they created a protocol for responding elicited perceptive and thorough responses. The heuristic they developed, called…

The growing demand for guidance on teaching about the world religions in U.S. high schools and colleges over the past few years prompted the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) to devote its seventh annual History Institute, April 2001, to exploring the topic. The institute brought together university faculty and 44 high school teachers from…

This final report describes activities and accomplishments of a four-year federal grant providing technical assistance and training for service providers of children with deafblindness in Delaware. The project included annual orientation workshops for new staff, family learning weekends, and eight summer institute graduate courses jointly…

Reflections on a field trip to a Chicago police district by participants in the elementary teachers' section of the law in American Society Summer Institute are given. (KM)

The author describes a cluster of evaluation devices for conference and institute settings: (1) participant daily diaries, (2) individual information request forms ("quickie notes"), (3) an end-of-course performance contract, and (4) an open-ended forced-choice evaluation questionnaire. An ubiquitous observer's role includes reviewing all…