This set of workshop materials and activities is designed for persons who teach academic and clinical courses to students in professional allied health programs. The workshop consists of a set of short didactic and more extensive experiential activities. The workshop is organized into four main parts. Each part is labeled an activity. The first…

This report summarizes and interprets a workshop which focuses on youth research--where it is intellectually, what it has learned over the past decade, and where it is going. In addition, practical suggestions for appropriate roles which government could play in youth research, other than simply to supply more funds, are discussed. From over 60…

This coordinator's guide is designed to assist in leading a workshop covering four competency based modules in Job Placement, Follow-Up and Follow-Through. The purpose of the modules is to help the placement coordinators plan, implement, and evaluate a program of job placement services in a school setting. The content areas of the four modules are…

The Library Networking Committee, whose goal is to determine and establish means of resource sharing within Northern Virginia, set up a series of workshops in ten subject areas--art studies, careers and vocational guidance, energy and environment, genealogy, gerontology, law, music, professional education, state and local documents, and urban…

This publication contains the proceedings from a workshop held in Washington, D.C. in December, 1977. The purpose of the conference was to examine project PROCEED (Program for Continuing Engineering Education) as an innovative approach to technology transfer in energy efficiency education and the potential relationships of the project with the…

All but one of the articles contained in the book were presented, either verbatim or in expanded form, at a series of Parent Workshops conducted by the Mountain Plains Regional Center for Services to Deaf-Blind Children. Titles and authors include "Parents Are People" (J. Teske), "Swimming Pool Activities for Deaf-Blind…

A growing movement to improve the quality of teaching has been called "faculty development." It is based on three assumptions: the primary professional activity of most faculty is teaching; instructional behaviors are learned skills, attitudes, and goals; and faculty can be taught how to improve their classroom performance. Interest in faculty…

Beginning with a three-week institute at Western Carolina University in the summer of 1972, continuing with nine workshops at five universities in 1973, and concluding with extended study conferences at Appalachian State University and Queens College in 1974 and 1975, the Institute for Undergraduate Curricular Reform has promoted its theme of…

This handbook is a general planning tool for child development groups that want to be more effective than they are. It is designed to help a group determine (1) its reasons for existence; (2) its aspirations for improving child development programs in the community; (3) its limitations; (4) what steps it needs to take to achieve its goals; (5) who…

Project goals for the year ending June 30, 1974 were to complete development of the model initiated in Sand Springs Public Schools during the 1972-73 school year, to provide dissemination of the model across the State, and to demonstrate the model in operation. Major efforts concerned instructional material revisions or development from the first…

The document describes a workshop designed to provide participants with information, competencies, and skills pertaining to working with adult learners. Eleven persons from central and western Nebraska participated. The workshop's program included participants' self-appraisal of their competencies and their involvement in talk sessions and small…

The job readiness workshop was designed to offer participants improved methods of finding employment. The manual is intended to be used with small groups of unemployed or underemployed individuals in a workshop setting. The workshop's materials are designed as a resource unit, not as a teaching plan. The attempt has been to present desirable…

Described is a 4-week summer workshop, Project OUTREACH, designed to train Head Start personnel in the knowledge and skills necessary to identify handicapped or potentially handicapped children and to develop specific teaching strategies for the preschool handicapped child. It is explained that a unique aspect of the workshop was the coordination…

Because the insular nature of the State of Hawaii limits easy access to materials available nationally and even curtails dissemination of locally developed curricular materials, the materials familiarization and dissemination portion of an educational development project was designed to provide educators throughout Hawaii with an information…

The document is a collection of articles written by authors who are or have been work evaluators or closely associated with the process within a work evaluation rehabilitation facility. The papers are intended to broaden the scope of the available literature in the field of work evaluation. The articles include the following: The Professional in…