For a workshop to be successful, it must have characteristics such as organization, acceptable pace, well-defined objectives, and adequate facilities. Trainers court disaster if these are not present. Includes symptoms of dysfunctional behavior by participants, causes of this behavior, and strategies to deal with it. (JOW)

Excerpts from a discussion on trainees helping each other by a panel of mildly retarded adults in a sheltered workshop are presented. Discussion centers on helping peers with anger and frustration, talking about problems, and helping with daily living skills. (CL)

Presents the results of a workshop on controversial materials which have encountered censure or otherwise pose problems for libraries. Issues raised relate to racism, sexism, alternative life-styles, sex information, and sexuality. Such workshops are intended to aid librarians in establishing selection standards. (RAA)

Offers suggestions concerning important elements in planning workshops: organization of committees, program planning, definition of topic and purpose, statement of objectives, the audience, format, timing, site selection, registration, publicity, speaker selection, contracts, budgets, and evaluation questionnaires. (FM)

The Washington State Office of Public Instruction conducted a project of venereal disease prevention through education during the 1974-75 school year to make training more accessible to educators. (MM)

Views organizational learning as a collective and relational process in which groups of people gain knowledge and appreciation of issues through stories and an ongoing dialogue between stories. Identifies and implements an organizational learning intervention to facilitate learning through storytelling workshops. Illustrates the value of these…

Examines the effectiveness of family of origin therapy as experienced in a workshop format. A description of the Family of Origin Workshop, a 6-hour session that strives for the goal of increasing personal authority, is included. Participants reported increased ability to individuate and attributed changes resulting from the workshop to…

Presents a didactic-experiental workshop that may be used with groups of family therapists and their spouses to help them explore marital issues that sometimes emerge as a result of the work of the family therapist. Concludes family therapists should not neglect their own marriages. (Author/ABL)

Most of the 201 agricultural producers who attended 2-day targeted workshops learned marketing concepts and changed their attitudes about marketing. Refresher workshops were recommended to help them use the marketing techniques learned. (SK)

Describes the process of developing a procedures manual for federal court administrators: the draft was used as a "pretest" questionnaire and a workshop was conducted to train staff in the use of the manual. (SK)

Seventy-one married couples attending marriage education workshops were surveyed regarding price, product, place, people, and promotional marketing factors influencing their overall satisfaction as workshop participants. Findings suggest both similar and unique marketing factors influenced husbands' and wives' satisfaction. Recommendations for…

This article arose from a series of workshops with practitioners in early years teaching. The workshops addressed how history could be taught to very young children, three- to five-years-old. The authors were aware that there was a widely held belief that history was inappropriate for the very young child. The authors felt that this was because of…

This article analyses mathematical modelling from several different perspectives and contrasts modelling with problem solving. Then it describes the ways in which modelling, applications, and problem solving are approached in several Latin American countries. It further describes workshops for secondary schools and for university teachers in which…

This article briefly summarizes highlights from the Committee on Teaching About the United Nations (CATUN)-sponsored annual workshop, "A World Out of Balance: Searching for Answers Through Education" in New York City, February 4, 2005. The meeting focused on children worldwide who are struggling to survive child labor, child trafficking, child…