The purpose of this study was to assess the long-term effects of a corporate training program in business and technical writing. Subjects were 135 employees who attended ten three-day workshops during the course of one year. The effects of the workshops were assessed in two stages: immediately after the training through an evaluation form and one…

Teachers of minority handicapped children can enhance their relationship with parents by understanding that parents cannot be forced to participate and that the teacher cannot expect to have the same authority with parents as with children. It is important for teachers to begin parent training programs with high success activities, focus on…

The role of the project supervisor in implementing the Follow Through program's Direct Instruction Model is described in this report. The two most important aspects of effective supervision are identified as training and monitoring. The report first describes workshop training, focusing on twelve general conditions for instruction and four…

The project addressed the discrepancy between research (documenting the vocational potential of severely handicapped adults) and current services (which include an expanding national program of nonvocational day activity centers) with five coordinated components designed to improve, implement, and evaluate vocational services. The first component,…

Several articles of interest to teachers of English as a second language (ESL) are included. The Institute of Languages at the University of New South Wales describes "Projects for a 'Survival' English Course for Overseas Students." Howard Tucker and Barbara Harley discuss an educational series of 24 television programs for immigrant…

The attitudes of inservice workshop participants toward the workshop topics may affect their perceptions of workshop effectiveness. As a result, opinionaires could provide an inadequate means of evaluating inservice programs. At four workshops designed to enhance educational leaders' capacity to increase sex equity in their organizations, 67…

The facilitator's manual offers guidelines for conducting a workshop for regular educators which focuses on the following objectives--writing a rationale for mainstream education, describing the various instructional models and the role relationships of personnel within each, describing the characteristics and classifications of special students…

The materials on program development presented here were originally developed as a component of a five-day training program of the Women's Educational Equity Project of the women's center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The booklet's purpose is to provide users with explicit information on program planning and decision-making in a…

This is a workbook for an inservice teacher training course on sex role stereotypes. The workbook is divided into eight workshop topics: the masculine mystique, the feminine mystique, language and textbooks, classroom practices, early childhood, athletics, career guidance, and cultural values. For each topic, suggestions as to the structure and…

An experimental evaluation was conducted of a drug education program in two high schools. The experimental group consisted of students who had participated in a 50 hour workshop which combined didactic presentations and interactive activities between peers. The control group consisted of students from the drug education program waiting list. It…

ARTICLES PREPARED FOR AN EDUCATION WORKSHOP ON TEACHING THE MIGRANT CHILD ARE PRESENTED. THEY INCLUDE "WHEN THE MIGRANT CHILD COMES TO SCHOOL" BY P. GOODWIN, "THE PROBLEMS OF THE MIGRANT CHILD" BY M. BELL, "PROBLEMS CREATED BY THE MIGRANT" BY J. TOLMAN, "THE SOCIOLOGICAL MEXICAN AMERICAN MINORITY" BY A.…

OF THE 446 REPRESENTATIVES FROM STATE COMMISSIONS, STATES, AND FEDERAL AGENCIES ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE, 390 WERE WOMEN. NINETEEN STATE COMMISSIONS REPORTED ACTIVITIES SUCH AS INFLUENCING THE PASSAGE OF EQUAL PAY OR MINIMUM WAGE LAWS APPLICABLE TO BOTH MEN AND WOMEN AND PARTICIPATING IN POVERTY PROGRAMS AND ADULT EDUCATION. PARTICIPANTS IN 11…

A SUMMARY IS GIVEN OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE NEW MEDIA WORKSHOP HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ALUMNI CENTER, TAHOE CITY, ON AUGUST 1-7, 1965. THE PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOP WAS TO CLARIFY ISSUES AND DEVELOP GUIDELINES RELATING TO AUDIOVISUAL AND SCHOOL LIBRARY EDUCATION, IN ORDER TO ASSIST SCHOOL PERSONNEL IN THE USE OF NEW MEDIA. THE MAIN…

A PROGRAM WAS INSTITUTED FOR IMPROVING EDUCATION FOR CULTURALLY DIFFERENT CHILDREN THROUGH INTENSIVE LANGUAGE ARTS INSTRUCTION USING SPECIAL TEACHERS SKILLED IN THE LANGUAGE ARTS. ITS PURPOSES WERE TO CREATE--AN IMPROVED ENVIRONMENT, INCREASED TEACHER EFFICIENCY, INCREASED INTEREST AND SUPPORT FROM PARENTS, AND A PROGRAM DESIGNED TO MEET THE NEED…

HANDBOOK CONTAINS UNITS TO BE USED BY THE RESOURCE TEACHER IN WORKSHOP GROUPS FOR CHILDREN OF HIGH ACADEMIC ABILITY OR WITH SPECIAL INTEREST IN PARTICULAR TOPICS. SOME OF THE UNITS ARE EXTENSIONS OF THE WORK IN THE GRADE LEVEL HANDBOOK, OTHER UNITS WERE DESIGNED TO BROADEN HORIZONS BY INTRODUCING NEW AREAS OF EMPHASIS. THE HANDBOOK FOR…