A survey to learn how publications offices market themselves on campus is discussed. The responses indicate that many use brochures and handouts, rather than formal meetings. Some of the ways publications managers tell the campus of their offices' skills and service are presented. (MLW)

Provides some direction on how mental health counselors can begin delivering staff development workshops to outside agencies. (Author/ABB)

The ways in which a futures and strategic planning preconference workshop provided an environmental scan to identify a number of issues facing higher education are described. Exercises designed to rank and evaluate these issues are discussed. (MLW)

Considers the change in attitude about teaching keyboarding in the elementary school and outlines objectives for an inservice workshop to train elementary school teachers to teach keyboarding for computer literacy. (SK)

Describes a variety of exercises used in a course to encourage French teachers to use creativity in developing classroom materials and activities. (MSE)

Research on effective classrooms found that outstanding teachers had all been through an evolutionary process of growth, for which they needed time to participate in workshops, visits to other classrooms, and other professional development activities. The evolutionary process must be supported, and a series of workshops that help do so are…

Discusses a workshop designed to provide middle-aged adults with information and opportunities to process their attitudes, emotions, and the realities of exchanging roles with aging parents. (Author)

Personal interviews and agency records were used to examine month-by-month vocational histories of 53 sheltered workshop employees placed in competitive jobs. Most participants who were still employed after four to five years had parental support, while those who returned to the workshop or were unemployed did not. (Author/CL)

Faculty training sessions from one hour to two weeks occur regularly at the Rochester Institute of Technology, National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Information sharing occurs via newsletters, interest groups, seminars, and demonstrations. The objectives, content, faculty experience, and evaluations from the one- and two-week faculty computer…

Describes a project designed to assist national trade union centers with their specific activities in the area of the organization and training of women workers. Discusses the setting up of women's committees as support structures for the trade union confederations. The effectiveness of the program and the response of women trade unionists are…

Provides a description of a workshop intended to diffuse resistance and help prepare staff for technological innovations. (Author)

Describes a workshop designed as an inductive/deductive conceptual process enabling users to subjectively determine controversial issues inherent in advertisements. Methodology is intended to be integrated into a variety of public education or classroom contexts. Exercises involving free association, seeing the whole advertisement, the inner…

Describes a workshop offered at the Middlebury College Italian School on contemporary Italy. The morning sessions consisted of a discussion by a native Italian scholar of contemporary Italy and of related readings and the afternoon sessions consisted of readings and discussions and hands-on activities in lesson preparation. (SED)

A job module approach, which combines training and production, is proposed as a systematic way of procuring subcontract work without disrupting the skill training aspect of sheltered workshop programs for moderately, severely, and profoundly retarded persons. (CL)

Describes an inservice training program to reduce job stress and to improve the time management proficiencies of Kentucky extension agents. (SK)