Reports on a cross-cultural awareness training program consisting of 14 workshops designed to help social workers examine their personal values in relation to minorities, increase their abilities to communicate information about cultural characteristics, and develop appropriate techniques and skills for working with culturally distinct…

Discusses the pros and cons of presenting a collegewide, 14-week seminar for faculty development in writing across the curriculum. (AEA)

Describes a workshop held during the 1982 World Future Society's Fourth General Assembly on the combined application of issues management and policy impact analysis. The workshop participants applied futures research, forecasting, goal-setting, and policy development techniques to future problems in educational policy. (AM)

Committee on Computers in Chemical Education is conducting workshops to illustrate what can be done with currently available software and provide opportunities to review representative samples of publishers' materials. Guidelines for those requesting workshops, responsibilities of host school, costs, and workshop format are provided. (JN)

Through a network of extension workshops, foreign language conferences can be brought to many teachers not ordinarily attending them. Using existing formats, selected participants would attend conference workshops, then conduct similar workshops in their local areas. A funding mechanism could be established within the conference governing body.…

Literary training for translators becomes palatable and tangible when given in a single, three-semester-hour course, combining all languages and taught in English. The course explores literature synthetically, via translation, rather than analytically as in a more traditional literature course. (Author/MSE)

Describes some of the salient issues and how they were dealt with during the development and delivery of a multilevel evaluation of a large human relations training program in a federal agency. Nine references are listed. (Author/LLS)

Outlines an interdisciplinary workshop in bioethics for secondary teachers taught by a team consisting of a scientist, a philosopher, and a literary critic. Discusses definitions, topics, reading selections, problems, and value. (DC)

Describes a workshop on burnout especially designed for telephone counselors. Workshops help counselors explore the personal, professional, and organizational factors that are important in understanding and coping with this burnout. (Author/RC)

Studied the effects of a seven-week motivational training program on the attitudes and sports performance of five veteran members of the Chicago State University swim team. The program stressed four basic aspects: cognitive-behavioral synthesization; personology; micro-group exercises; and individual counseling. (Author/SJL)

Tested the utility of the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI), the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and the Girona Affect Scale in predicting the outcomes of a marathon Gestalt therapy workshop. Signigicant predictive equations were generated that use the POI to predict gains on the Girona Affect Scale. (Author/RC)