Following a series of career education workshops for school-based teams of principals, counselors, and teachers throughout Tennessee, a survey was conducted to determine how many of the participants were still using their workshop plans one year later, and what characteristics of participants most influenced their use of these plans. (CT)

Fritz Perls' Gestalt Workshops are explained and recommended for inservice training for teachers. Since Gestalt Workshops increase their participants' growth, awareness, and integration personally and environmentally, their benefit to classroom teachers would be direct and dramatic. (Author)

Describes a National Education Association workshop designed to help teachers manage day-to-day stress and stay in teaching. The program has four objectives: to identify sources of stress; to determine present stress level; to explore ways to manage stress; and to explore ways to minimize distress. (CT)

Describes the organization of a writing workshop for women, and the characteristics unique to a group of women students that made the course successful. (HTH)

Examines the characteristics of a sound and effective writing workshop program and discusses steps for planning such a workshop. (HTH)

Teachers are being reassigned outside their primary specialities because of budget cuts, declining enrollments, school closures, and teacher layoffs. This article offers guidelines for developing a program, based on one implemented in Garden City (Michigan), that serves the retraining and emotional needs of reassigned teachers. (WD)

The article describes a workshop exercise for introducing educators to the nature of educational programing for the gifted. (DB)

Describes day-long workshops, aimed at teachers and educators, caregivers, counselors and parents. These workshops deal with the needs that children have in dealing with death and give specific methods and resources. (Author/LAB)

The article describes a four-day workshop on recent technological developments in the field of blindness hosted by Arkansas Enterprises for the Blind in Little Rock. The main objective of the program was to increase rehabilitation counselors' awareness of how technological aids could be used to enhance their clients' vocational opportunities.…

Describes the creation of the University of Kansas Adult Life Resource Center and the mid-life concerns addressed by the center's workshops on the adult life cycle and on career change. (SK)

A workshop on developing potential for growth and change is one of a variety of educational activities of the University of British Columbia's Women's Resources Center which focus on life planning for women. (SK)

Describes an interdisciplinary faculty writing workshop at Michigan Technological University, which was designed to provide the teachers with a set of general pedagogical principles about teaching writing. (HOD)

Describes what one high school writing teacher would do to make a writing workshop work effectively. (RL)

Members of an elders writing workshop reveal what the workshop meant to them. (FL)

Results indicated moderately increased work productivity, positive changes in collateral behaviors, and a high degree of self-monitoring accuracy among all employees. (Author/DLS)