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Kaplan, Jeffrey S. – Theory Into Practice, 2008
This article describes an effort to create a teacher learning community in which university and local school teachers worked together to improve the teaching of writing at elementary and secondary levels. I describe how a university's National Writing Project (NWP) engaged in developing a cadre of selected teachers to share understandings about…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Writing Instruction, Communities of Practice
New Orleans Univ., LA. – 1989
This report describes how 22 Louisiana public school counselors were selected to attend a 5-day summer program to acquaint counselors with several computer programs relevant to counseling. It also describes the follow-up mail survey regarding the counselors' motivation for attending, evaluation of the program and accommodations, and opinions on…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Counseling, Counseling Techniques
Society for Teachers of Family Medicine, Kansas City, MO. – 1989
This instructor's manual is a practical guide to a faculty development training program on substance abuse within family medicine emphasizing a meshing of individual curriculum projects by participants with group instruction and support. Organized into two parts the manual describes the training program in detail in Part 1 and provides 10 actual…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Faculty Development, Family Practice (Medicine), Higher Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1982
Testimony of witnesses, including senators and professors, newspaper articles, press releases, communications, and other publications in support of legislation that would create a Department or Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution are provided. The academy would have 3 major functions: (1) to perform and assist research about international…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Federal Legislation, Hearings, Information Services
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Platt, Joseph B. – Journal of General Education, 1975
The appreciable impact of the National Science Foundation on the education of scientists in the United States since the agency's founding was discussed. One of the major new challenges considered was the need for scientists and engineers to learn more about our society's economics, politics, and values. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Fellowships, General Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Instructional Improvement
Hauck, Rich – American Vocational Journal, 1975
At North Dakota State School of Science, a summer program called CDI (Career Development Institute) is giving hundreds of rural high school students a hands-on opportunity to preview careers in the world of work. (Author/MW)
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, High School Students, Institutes (Training Programs)
Allan, George B. – Community College Frontiers, 1975
Announces the creation of the World Federation of Colleges--an international organization for the study of community colleges, and describes the functions and goals of the Annual International Institute on the Community College, which is approaching its sixth session in June 1975. Names of International Advisory Committee members are listed. (DC)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Institutes (Training Programs), International Programs, Professional Associations
Appalachia Educational Lab., Charleston, WV. – 1987
Kentucky's Institute for Beginning Principals was designed and implemented by a study group sponsored jointly by the Kentucky Association of School Administrators (KASA) and the Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL). AEL's study group concept calls for an association to select a topic for study--one of high priority in the state related to…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Beginning Principals
Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. – 1987
Prepared in response to requests from librarians and other members of the public for information about the types of projects that have been funded by the Higher Education Act Title II-B Program, a program which assists in training persons in librarianship through fellowships and institutes, this brochure provides information about projects funded…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Federal Aid, Fellowships, Grants
Scholl, Geraldine T., Ed. – 1982
The document contains edited versions of sessions from the 1981 Special Study Institute, the fourth in a series designed initially for state education consultants for the visually handicapped. Objectives of the 1981 Institute are listed--to establish coordination, communication, and cooperation among teacher trainers; to develop interagency…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Agency Cooperation, Community Resources, Delivery Systems
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Shedd, Mark R.; And Others – Education and Urban Society, 1974
A discussion of managerial retraining in order to further administrative reorganization and improvement of management by the former Superintendent of Schools in Philadelphia, an organizational development consultant, and an educator with an interest in organizational development. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Institutes (Training Programs), Leadership Training
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Nelson, Randolph J. – Peabody Journal of Education, 1974
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Guidance, Career Planning, Inservice Teacher Education
Dutta, S. C. – ASPBAE Journal, 1973
The role of adult education in developing countries is preparation of the people for accepting and inculcating change and helping to establish a pattern of social values enabling progress. Recommendations from the Asian Regional Seminar were a high degree of professionalism for adult educators and the establishing of a regional institute. (EA)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Saunders, W.L. – 1976
A comparative analysis of six UNISIST short training courses was conducted as a basis for recommendations to the UNISIST Steering Committee in regard to future strategies for their education and training programs. Information that emerged from the course evaluations, which varied considerably in comprehensiveness and objectivity, was analyzed.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Course Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria, Information Retrieval
Bureau of Social Science Research, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1960
In this document are 275 appendix tables for a follow-up study of participants in the 1957 National Science Foundation Summer Institute for mathematics and science teachers. Over 1,500 participants in the 1957 institutes were interviewed in 1960. The responses are tabulated in these appendices. Data are presented under such headings as: size of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Federal Programs, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
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