This manual provides assistance in designing and conducting a leadership program for college students based on the "Student Leadership Practices Inventory" (Student LPI). The Student LPI extends previous research among business leaders to student leaders; it measures leadership practice in college students. Many young people taking a leadership…

This workbook provides information, answers to questions, and the "Student Leadership Practices Inventory" (Student LPI). After careful research with student leaders, similar to previous research in business, the Student LPI was designed to measure leadership practice in college students. The Student LPI helps college students discover the extent…

This paper focuses on training people to carry out the communication component of development programs. The paper begins with a description of some of the issues on the communication frontier that affect development programs, and then notes three kinds of communication training that stand out: designing and managing communication interventions;…

Proceedings of the Pacific Region Educational Laboratory's (PREL) 9th Annual Pacific Educational Conference, held August 3-5, 1992, in Pago Pago, American Samoa are evaluated in this document. Data were collected from an overall conference evaluation survey, individual workshop surveys, workshop program information, anecdotal information, and…

Four modules are presented from a project linking the New Jersey Department of Education, Divisions of Vocational Education and Special Education and The New Jersey Department of Labor, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. Modules address the vocational needs of handicapped secondary students. Each unit in the module lists objectives, grouping…

Guidelines are presented to aid workshop leaders when planning and facilitating workshops. Listed are: (1) five types of activities for workshop participants; (2) six kinds of workshop formats; (3) three questions to ask when planning workshops; (4) preplanning steps to follow when organizing a workshop; (5) suggestions for workshop leaders; (6) a…

Last March, the students and faculty at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts devoted a day to exploring sex-role stereotyping, a crucial issue and an important social concern. This article described workshops for students and teachers, both male and female, and evaluated the responses to those workshops. (Author/RK)

Designed to develop increased understanding of and sensitivity to the needs of Native American youth, this in-service training program for teachers of Native Americans and members of Native American communities involved 25 teachers in a collaborative workshop effort. (JC)

Described briefly are the planning of and reaction to a Saturday workshop for grandparents of hearing impaired infants and preschoolers. (LS)

The effects of positive, negative and neutral reinforcement conditions upon the manual dexterity test scores of adult retardates were assessed in a sheltered workshop setting. (Author)

Described a workshop designed to provide teachers and administrators with the skills necessary to develop, implement, and supervise a system of objective teacher appraisal and evaluation. (Author/RK)

This article describes a model for designing workshops and laboratories for training people in helping skills. (Author)

In an attempt to change the teacher's behavior toward all children rather than to modify the behavior of problem children, this workshop model for training counselors to serve as behavioral consultants to teachers has been developed. (Author/PC)