Describes three-phase model derived from workshop experience and designed to enhance school counselors' familiarity with the world of work. Phases discussed include (1) visiting the workplaces; (2) understanding and internalization; and (3) creative application. (Author/NB)

Describes the Children's Writers Workshop, a summer program of the Troy (New York) Public Library, which introduces children to the art of bookmaking by allowing them to write, illustrate, lay out, and bind their own books. Registration policy, staff, materials, costs, funding, and activities for the five sessions are among the topics covered. (6…

Boatworks, a subsidiary of Stepping Stones Growth Center in Oakland, California, provides work experience to developmentally disabled persons and helps them learn skills useful in private sector jobs. Workers learn job responsibility, quality control, and work safety procedures and are paid according to productivity. (CB)

Looks at how trainers can use managers and participants as resources in drawing up workshop objectives. Emphasizes planning as a critical first step in creating an effective workshop design. Examples focus on a one-day supervisory skills training workshop. (CT)

Discusses procedures that a consultant can use in a workshop for cross-cultural training to facilitate the acquisition of global knowledge, broad-minded attitude, flexible communication skills, and adaptable behavior by international managers and technicians in multi-national corporations. (SED)

A study was conducted to see if inservice training for extension agents made a difference, especially in knowledge acquisition. The study's conclusion was that in at least the cognitive area a significant change had taken place. Agents who attended the evaluation workshop had significantly greater knowledge in the area of evaluation than agents…

Describes a workshop design to create a psychologically safe and supportive environment for professionals in aging to consider their commitment to work, patterns of interaction with the older adult, feelings concerning death, assumptions about older people, interpersonal skills, and willingness to use alternative modes of behavior. (Author/ABB)

This survey, instituted to provide a basis for workshop instructional content, reports what officials (below the state level) believe they need to know about procedures in meetings. (PD)

Interviews Jan Turbull about her work with writing teachers in the St. George Writing Project in Australia. (HTH)

Discusses: (1) a comparative study on managing population education programs; (2) a South Pacific workshop in which training materials on sex education, family life education, and nutrition-oriented mixed gardening were developed; and (3) a workshop on evaluative research, the focus of national population education programs in Asia. (JN)

Describes the seminar/practicum program for teachers of basic writing at the University of Iowa. Includes the instructional sequence and the function of course journals and rationales. (HTH)

Encourages business communication teachers to consider teaching a consulting course to people already in business and industry. Provides a set of directions for planning the first consulting course and suggestions for the course content. (EL)

Because many courses designed to help teachers teach computer science actually focus on personal use skills (user training), several institutions are establishing courses to train teachers to teach computing. One of these courses is described. A list of course topics is included. (JN)

Provides an outline for a work/family workshop that has its philosophical roots in the works of three important cultural analysts: Alvin Toffler, Daniel Yankelovich, and Maxine Schnall. Elements of the workshop (cognitive shift, new information, getting in touch with what really matters, conclusion) are examined. (CT)

Describes the Middletown (Ohio) Community Resource Workshop, a joint effort between schools and businesses in the community designed to promote cooperation and understanding between education and business. (FL)