The activities of Resource Educators for Directed Development of Instruction (REDDI), a full-time institute designed to provide district leadership personnel with the skills and experience of designing and developing a curriculum package based on the principles of instructional technology, are described in this report. The program is presented in…

This one-week institute emphasized the development of patterns of administration and coordination of supportive services to help students who find it difficult to obtain adequate occupational training for reasons beyond their control. The institute provided participants the opportunity to develop strategies and models that could be followed or…

The 1971 Oregon Small Schools Program summer institute at Willamette University, June 14-18, was attended by 200 elementary and secondary teachers, librarians, counselors, principals, and superintendents from more than 50 Oregon school districts. The major purpose of the summer institute (funded under Title III of the Elementary and Secondary…

This document is a directory of projects supported by the Division of Pre-College Education in Science, National Science Foundation, fiscal year 1971. Programs are listed in four categories: 1) Curriculum Activities: curriculum development projects; 2) Implementation Activities: Resource Personnel Workshops to implement curriculum projects; 3)…

This summer workshop was held in 1967. This guide includes how to lead discussions, ask challenging questions, use feedback, observe behavior of members, make thought-provoking statements, and summarize points. Also included are guides to film discussion, materials on the disadvantaged child, an attitude inventory, tapes on discipline situations,…

Directed toward reforming the scope of career education and initiating awareness and enthusiasm for continuous career education opportunities for all students in grades K-12, this curriculum guide describes the 16 basic career concepts and 205 general objectives taken from the Wisconsin State Career Curriculum Model and evaluated by teachers and…

The constant readjustment that is necessary in a socially and economically complex society is discussed. The point is made that in recent years the United States has been confronted by an increasingly urgent series of economic problems. Intractably high levels of unemployment have accompanied abnormally high levels of inflation. It is also pointed…

A workshop held on teacher education is discussed. This workshop represented the second phase of a program which sought to encourage and assist institutions of higher education in the western and midwestern States to establish or expand programs in teacher preparation for adult education. Workshop participants met for three days to increase their…

A 3-week summer institute on the American Indian student in higher education brought together college administrators, curriculum specialists, and Indian educational leaders to mutually explore possible solutions to those problems which the Indian student confronts as obstacles to a college degree. Additional purposes of the institute were to…

The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…

This report is one of a series presenting the results of studies of NDEA Title XI and Arts and Humanities Foundation institute programs and selected institute-associated activities conducted in 1966. During the summer of 1966 five pilot Institutes in Civics were funded by the Office of Education. The purpose was to utilize the initial experience…

THREE APPROACHES TO INSERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION WERE EXAMINED TO DETERMINE WHICH WAS MOST EFFECTIVE IN PREPARING TEACHERS TO USE A NEW CURRICULUM IN SCIENCE. THE CURRICULUM, "SCIENCE - A PROCESS APPROACH," HAD BEEN DEVELOPED THROUGH EFFORTS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE FOR SCIENCE INSTRUCTION IN GRADES K-3.…

Many scholars are convinced that when research is absent there is little quality teaching. The initial operational phase of the Consortium on Research Training (CORT) during the 1973-74 academic year validated this assumption, evidenced by the enthusiasm shown for research, as teachers developed the kind of personal intellectual discipline that…

The accomplishments of the Consortium on Research Training (CORT) in its second year of operation are described and suggest that the researcher, who is becoming increasingly significant on small college campuses, can benefit from training programs. Research training opportunities were provided by CORT to faculties in member institutions and…

The author describes a summer institute at the University of Michigan to upgrade the teaching and clinical skills of health occupations instructors representing a variety of health disciplines and levels of instruction. She concludes that interdisciplinary teacher education can promote the human aspect of health care. (MF)