Describes a four-year-old program that provides voluntary weekend teacher inservice training workshops. Teachers have eagerly been attending the workshops run by the University of Alabama and a consortium of a dozen school districts. (MD)

Discusses Radio Learning Group (RLG) Campaigns, in which groups meet weekly with a trained leader, listen to radio programs, read study materials, and discuss the issues. Describes in detail the operational workshop held in Swaziland to train the leaders of the RLG Campaign. (SK)

Highlights a workshop exploring the objectives and activities of the Human Habitat Study, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to the maintenance of a healthful and healing global environment. Workshop activities focused on left/right brain inventory, a rationale for curricula, and a strategy for developing instructional programs. (BC)

Discusses a four-session workshop which helps middle school students realize the value of volunteerism for career exploration and skill development. Describes how to find a volunteer job, how to apply, guidelines for successful volunteering, and documenting volunteer experiences. (JAC)

Based on 10 years of doing inservice programs and other presentations in schools, the author offers several suggestions for giving an inservice presentation. (HOD)

Describes a career counseling workshop for Black women featuring the model-mentor process. Overall reaction to the workshop was positive and suggested the workshop could serve as an alternative career intervention for Black women in predominantly White universities. (JAC)

Describes a day-long Aging Awareness workshop in which a group of 12 elderly were involved in a poetry-writing exercise focusing on meaningful life change. Ramifications of this positive experience are discussed in view of the cultural/language barrier and traditional aging awareness issues such as reminiscence. (JAC)

Describes the development, content, and outcome of a highly cost-effective program designed to meet the personal and vocational needs of displaced homemakers. Follow-up data (N=232) indicated 30 percent of the women made gains in employment or training. Results are particularly significant in terms of cost effectiveness. (JAC)

Describes a developmental group training workshop for training experienced counselors to do group counseling. Discusses stages of training including exploration, understanding, and action, which can help counselors learn helping skills for counseling that can often transfer to their own interpersonal lives and interactions with others. (JAC)

Describes a program, launched by the New Haven (Connecticut) Public School System, that involved parents, as well as other members of the family, in a variety of activities that promoted reading growth of children. (Author/RK)

University Level IGE is seen as applicable and effective for professors because the procedural elements of IGE, particularly team teaching and the deliberate use of varying modes of media instruction, are readily transferable to the university environment. (MM)

Article described Project "Turn-On," which took place at the Cloisters in New York City, designed to introduce children and teachers in District 6 in upper Manhattan to the beautiful and unusual "neighborhood" museum that became the focal point for active learning in many areas. (Author/RK)

Incoming freshmen experienced a summer planning conference designed to alter attitudes. Two semantic differential instruments were developed to measure change along twenty attitudinal scales. Results indicate attitudinal changes can be measured by the flexible and sensitive semantic differential type of instrument and a short program of…

At a series of workshops across the country, college and university physical plant administrators and chief business officials are working together to learn effective ways to manage energy and cut costs. (Author)

Based on the theory of cognitive dissonance, the experience-linked practical problem solving approach of this workshop method encourages behavior change, presuming this to cause attitude change. Testing by a Likert-type attitude scale and follow-up studies showed that attitudes were changed. (Author/LBH)