Discusses the proceedings of a five-day institute held at Georgia Southwestern College, August 6-10, 1973 among whose purposes were, to inspire school librarians to assist the youth within Georgia's culturally deprived areas, and to make available for examination types of media that would attract the interest of the culturally deprived student.…

Discusses the American regional conferences planned for 1975 that will offer world scholars an occasion to explore unique problems relating to teaching about the U.S. as a foreign country.

This document describes the implementation and evaluation of a 2-week workshop designed to help the faculty of the National Institute of Public Administration (Lahore, Pakistan) develop case studies and accompanying teaching notes for use in their classes. The workshop, which was facilitated by the author, resulted in the development of nine case…

Discussed are components and methods of presenting effective inservice programs for special education teachers. (CL)

Describes the training, work settings, clients, recent developments and possible future directions of the Speech Therapy profession in the Republic of Ireland. (MH)

From a special section, "Talent Awareness Training.

A training institute was conducted to provide participants with knowledge and experience which would enable them to demonstrate competence in designing and implementing full-time adult education programs in Louisiana. Fifty participants were selected from parishes throughout Louisiana interested in initiating or improving full-time adult education…

The manual is intended for use in training institutes for persons providing respite care for families of children with developmental disabilities in Montana. Expectations for participants and objectives for training are outlined in preliminary sections. Each chapter contains a brief statement of the chapter's main point or points, a selected…

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE AFRICA INSTITUTE, A 3 1/2-WEEK SUMMER PROGRAM HELD AT A PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOL, WERE TO DEVELOP AN UNDERSTANDING OF A NON-WESTERN CULTURE, OF THE PROBLEMS OF EVOLVING NATIONS, OF THEIR ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTIONS, AND OF ONESELF IN RELATION TO OTHER CULTURES, AND TO IMPROVE RESEARCH SKILLS, CRITICAL THINKING, AND INDEPENDENCE IN…

THESE INSTITUTES CONTINUED THE EMPHASIS OF THE 1964 AND 1965 INSTITUTES ON TRAINING TEACHERS TO TEACH FLUID POWER AND EVOLVING EFFECTIVE TECHNIQUES FOR INTRODUCING NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO EDUCATORS. THEY WERE ADMINISTERED BY THE FLUID POWER SOCIETY WHICH, THROUGH ADVISORY COMMITTEES, ESTABLISHED THE CONTENT, PROCEDURES, AND COORDINATION OF THE…

TO PROVIDE SPONSORS OF EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES WITH SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDINGS WHICH WILL BETTER PREPARE THEM TO HANDLE INTEGRATED SITUATIONS, THE INSTITUTE MET FOR 5 HOURS ON 15 SATURDAYS DURING THE SPRING SEMESTER, 1965-66. THE TEACHERS, MOST FROM RICHMOND-AREA SCHOOLS, WERE PRIMARILY MALE (ABOUT 50 PERCENT), NEGRO (APPROXIMATELY 75 PERCENT),…

THE EDUCATIONAL COUNSELOR PROGRAM INVOLVED TRAINING COLLEGE GRADUATES TO SERVE AS PAROLE OFFICERS FOR JUVENILE OFFENDERS. THE PROGRAM WAS EVALUATED IN A SIX-MONTH FOLLOW-UP STUDY WHICH USED RECIDIVISM AS A CRITERIA. THE EMPHASIS IN THE TRAINING PROGRAM WAS ON GROUP WORK TECHNIQUES. THE FOUR RECIDIVISM VARIABLES CHOSEN WERE--(1) NUMBER OF COURT…

THE DATA SOURCES WERE (1) A QUESTIONNAIRE MAILED TO ALL PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGES LISTED IN THE 11TH EDITION OF THE "COLLEGE BLUE BOOK," (2) CATALOGS AND BULLETINS OF SELECTED COLLEGES, AND (3) LITERATURE IN THE FILED. A 52-PERCENT RESPONSE INDICATED THAT 70.7 PERCENT OF THE INSTITUTIONS OFFERED TECHNICAL INSTITUTE CURRICULUMS IN 1956, AN INCREASE OF…

THE NDEA ENGLISH INSTITUTES HELD IN PUERTO RICO AND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES IN 1964 WERE ANALYZED BY USING A FOLLOWUP QUESTIONNAIRE SENT TO ALL INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS. THE PURPOSES OF THE FOLLOWUP QUESTIONNAIRE WERE TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH (1) THE PARTICIPANTS HAD BEEN ABLE TO USE THE PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES…