Fourteen superior undergraduates with interest in and potential for educational research were chosen to participate in a 1-year undergraduate training program designed to provide them with an introduction to specialization in educational research. During their senior year they participated in an intensive 11-week summer session, and weekly…

A 1-year program was aimed at training 9 undergraduate students in techniques of social research and statistics as they apply to the field of education. During the second semester of their junior year trainees took a 4-credit-hour course in methods of social research and participated in a 2-credit project involving lectures, conferences, field…

This booklet is a composite of a transcript of an institute held in the Sausalito (Calif.) Unified School District to increase the knowledge of present and future teachers and to present information which could be introduced into the school curriculum. The papers delivered during the program offer information on the historical background of the…

The Adult Basic Education (ABE) teacher-training institute held at Mississippi State University, was a joint effort of the Mississippi State Department of Education and Mississippi State University. The main efforts of the instruction were directed toward the preparation of teams of teacher-trainers who would responsible for the planning,…

Instead of the usual essay manuscript this paper presents a group of questions which librarians must answer in order to decide what role they will play in either the growth or development of the college library collection. Among the questions posed are: (1) What type of institution is the American college today? (2) Who determines its objectives?…

An 8-week summer institute for 32 secondary school teachers from New Hampshire and nearby states was designed to show them the activities of chemists in research and in manufacturing. Intentions were to improve their teaching skills by showing them how the chemistry that they are teaching is used in practice, thus enabling them to improve their…

This report describes a 2-week full-time training program at the University of Iowa for inexperienced faculty in 4-year liberal arts colleges. The primary purpose of the program is to assist in the initial development of teaching competence, and has as its objectives: (1) the comprehension of selected major principles of college teaching, and (2)…

This is a narrative report of an institute held at Oklahoma State University from June 14 to June 26, 1970. The program outlined herein was designed to provide library specialists and educational media specialists with an educational growth experience which would help them meet the challenges and changes that need to be made in their educational…

The first funding of fellowships, institutes, and special projects under Part E of the Education Professions Development Act of 1967 was announced in January 1967. The Act is designed to help train "persons who are serving or preparing to serve as teachers, administrators, or educational specialists in institutions of higher education." The actual…

In Duplin County, North Carolina, a summer 1968 institute for the county's Negro and Caucasian teachers and principals was planned and operated by local educators in response to local problems of desegregation. Although recruitment began late, more teachers and principals than were expected volunteered in equal numbers from each race. One of the…

The University, in consortium with Project SPRED (Southwestern Connecticut Title III ESEA agency) proposes a program to provide preservice training of paraprofessionals to work with media specialists and school faculty as media aides. Recently adopted standards and difficulties arising from the use of untrained persons attest to the need. Efforts…

Three national institutes for correctional staff trainers incorporated new techniques in an attempt to upgrade corrections programs through improved staff development. There were 78 trainer and 200 middle management staff and correctional officers involved in the program, representing more than 100 correctional institutions in the United States.…

One of seven coordinated inservice institutes to be conducted during 1970 for vocational education and related personnel representing rural areas of the United States is discussed. This specific institute was concerned with the procedures of application of innovations resulting from research and development programs. The program relies primarily…

The papers in this volume are: Learning to Be; Staff Development for Student Development; A Humanistic Approach to Educational Management; Inservice Education, A Total Staff Involvement; Community Colleges as Political Institutions; Student Development--Where Are We Going; Of Time and Modules--The Organization of Instruction; Measuring Student…

This document is a collection of articles on various subjects related to open education. "Summer Institute as a Prototype," a description of the forerunner of the Workshop Center for Open Education, attemps to convey expectations about the evolution of the workshop process as it develops within the center. "Notes on the Continuum of…