Attending the Institute held on March 29-30, 1974 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee were 300 or more administrators, state department officials, project coordinators, teachers, university professors, citizens, and students from throughout the state. The institute's goal was to "impact the development of Bilingual Bicultural Education…

Two regional Occupational Program Planning Institutes were held to provide inservice education for persons involved in administering postsecondary occupational education programs. This report contains an edited compilation of reactor comments and discussion group deliberations for these major papers: (1) "Master Planning in Post-Secondary…

The object of this study is to make a start toward determining the extent of duplicated information that is being acquired in spite of customary precautions to avoid it. Referring to a specific case, the percentages in Table II show the frequency of appearance in five other works of 19 items in Mitchell's "Encyclopedia of American Politics." While…

This five-month EPDA part-time institute trained 41 elementary school teachers working with migrant children--Negroes, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans--in the South district of Dade County, Florida. Wednesday classes taught by the institute director met in various elementary schools in the afternoon. The emphasis was on methods which help…

Nineteen general education administrators with no special education training or experience, the majority of them building principals, attended a special study institute. There they participated in the SEATS (Special Education Administration Task Simulation) Game, developed by Daniel Sage for use in training special education administrators. A…

For the mental health practitioner to keep abreast of his rapidly changing field requires that adequate, up-to-date information be sufficiently available to meet professional needs. This study attempted to identify the ways in which such information is gathered at workshops. The characteristics of participants in a series of 1969 Post Doctoral…

A survey of the participants in the National Summer Institutes for Teacher Trainers in Adult Basic Education held at the University of Colorado in 1966 and 1967, aimed at determining the extent to which institute participants were being employed to provide instructional leadership in local programs. Questionnaires were sent to 114 participants in…

A 6-week institute for 38 primary school teachers (K-3), most of them from the Tampa area, was conducted to give teachers (1) a basic understanding of modern linguistics and its implications for second dialect teaching, (2) a grasp of the structural similarities and differences between Black dialects and general American English, and (3) an…

Twenty-six elementary and junior high school administrators and four college teacher educators participated in a 6-week summer institute, the first phase of a program designed to improve the education of children in schools serving the disadvantaged, particularly Mexican-Americans. The program involved (1) cognitive learning, (2) practicum…

An 8-week summer institute (three weeks background and preparation, two weeks practice, three weeks summary and translation) was conducted to improve and reorient the abilities of selected high school teachers by giving advanced academic training in the areas of Mexican language, literature, and culture; and by relating these areas of experience…

Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI), a project based on a carefully sequenced and detailed listing of behaviorally stated objectives, lesson materials geared to instructional objectives, provision for diagnosis of pupil skills and abilities, written prescriptions to guide the pupil's work, and pupil oriented instruction, is outlined first in…

The Career Guidance Institute was attended by eighteen South Bend, Indiana, educators. Among them were administrators, counselors, and teachers. Each individual visited nine of eighteen cooperating businesses and industries and wrote a report on one of them. Also included in the institute program were films, an orientation meeting, a two-day…

A two week, part-time institute, formed by the Community College of Denver to acquaint library supervisors with minority life-styles and aspects of employing minority library technical assistants, is described and evaluated. The first part of the document describes the Institute, its chosen problem, plan, and program. The personnel and…

Reported is a study of the effectiveness of specially designed Earth Science teacher improvement programs, with emphasis on content competency. Thirty-three National Science Foundation (NSF) Academic Year Institute (AYI) participants from two 1969-70 institutes for Earth Science teachers were administered pretests of the Earth Science Achievement…

Presented is a summary of a 5 week program of intensive demonstration therapy conducted with three adult severe stutterers by three master clinicians aided by seven consultants and 15 participating fellows. A main purpose of the institute is said to have been the improvement of student clinicians through demonstration of intensive therapy…