This article outlines the characteristics of a European Research Group on Management (ERGOM) workshop and discusses some of the factors which make the ERGOM training method different from others. (Author/BP)

Discussed is the role of the parent of the gifted preschool child, and described is a parent group based on the philosophy that home, school, and community should work together in the education of the gifted child. It is explained that the program focused on self concepts of parent and child, characteristics of gifted children, opportunity for…

A participant evaluation of an inservice training program (August, 1974) conducted by Memphis State University for the professional staff of the Tennessee Division of Vocational Rehabilitation indicated summarization and interpretation of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to be the most beneficial topic to most of the participants. (EA)

Realizing that facilitative qualities on the part of the counselor are definitely related to successful therapeutic outcome, this article concentrates on structural procedures for systematic training in these facilitative qualities. (Author/HMV)

Work supported in part by Public Health Service Grant 5tl MH-10276 from the National Institute of Mental Health.

Six workshop plans that can engage the audience in a school system while communicating knowledge about evaluation, evaluation methodology, or evaluation findings are presented. Recognition of user characteristics is the key to these workshop designs. The designs are labelled "script,""forcast,""simulated…

The manual provides a curriculum for training volunteers in state protection and advocacy agencies, with particular emphasis on training volunteer advocates who have direct relationships with developmentally disabled people. The curriculum consists of five training sessions, each lasting about 2 1/2 hours. Following an introductory section with…

The facilitator's manual outlines a workshop schedule for training consultants in special education. The workshop is divided into two phases (change and leadership) with units which cover the following topics: resistance to change or to the change agent, levels of change, the change cycles, change processes, competition and confrontation, two…

The playwrights-directors workshop at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) allows students of directing and playwriting to meet jointly to explore and solve problems in the creation and production of original one-act scripts. At the heart of the program is the belief that both playwriting and directing students profit from producing their efforts…