Lack of follow-up procedures to help implement ideas presented by workshop leaders often causes the failure of career education programs. School counselors, in the role of follow-up coordinators, can help avert such failures. (Author)

Discussed the development of a project entitled International Management Training for Educational Change, which focused on educational innovation and on sharing information among countries. (RK)

Describes the models and programs being developed by the Commission of Inquiry into High School Journalism to improve the quality of journalism education at the secondary level. (RB)

Describes the Human Resources Research Organization workshop that teaches Americans how to recognize cultural influences in their own thinking and thereby improve intercultural communication skills. (Author/PG)

The program described here, the family education workshop, is one elementary school counselor's response to the need for parent education. The purpose of these family education workshop meetings was to provide parents with some skills that would produce more effective relationships between family members. (Author)

The overall objectives of six NSF-sponsored workshops for mathematics teachers in Illinois two-year colleges are defined. The first conference on articulation and related problems, and the second on testing are described. (SD)

Activities related to the preparation of literacy follow-up materials in Asia and the Pacific are described in this final report of a regional workshop. Following a summary of the proceedings of the workshop, chapter 1 reviews preparation and field testing of printed book materials, printed nonbook materials, electronic media materials, and games…

The Consortium for the Development of Professional Materials for Vocational Education at Ohio State University was organized in 1978 for the purpose of developing high-quality curriculum materials for training leadership personnel in vocational and technical education in the United States, and to pilot test and demonstrate new instructional…

The postsecondary seminars report presents the distillation of the discussions and the recommendations of approximately 115 representatives of educational institutions, associations, and State and Federal agencies attending the Postsecondary Education Seminars Conference of 1976. The conference addressed the changing nature of postsecondary…

The instructional guide, student manual, and reference materials were developed by the PDQ Project, Planning and Development of Quality Services in the Schools, an effort by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association to provide public school personnel working with communication disordered children with information and training related to…

A favorable climate for developing and implementing a systematic substitute teacher program in the Ware County School System, which serves about 4,000 southeastern Georgia K-12 students, was created by mandates for the 1988-89 school year by the Georgia Board of Education. The program detailed within this document, written to comply with these new…

A study was conducted to make students aware of the issue of self, society, and authority in their writing, and to discover which aspects of the writing workshop method are productive and which are not relative to student perceptions of their authority as writers. A university-required junior level composition course was designed in which students…

This paper describes a series of collaborative research seminars designed to allow classroom teachers to observe and assess critical aspects of Logo learning in their own classrooms. Based on structured interviews with participating teachers, the workshops are designed to support classroom teachers in observing their own students, collecting data…

The final report describes activities and products of a 3-year project to prepare private sector volunteers to become actively involved in special education through a networking system of industry-education partnerships. Using a trainer of trainers model, the project conducted workshops and produced a training package which includes a program…

In spring 1985, Hartnell College and 10 area public and private high schools in California formed the High School/Hartnell Coordinating Council (HSHCC) to facilitate communication and cooperation between the high schools and the college. During 1985-86, HSHCC undertook the following activities: (1) monthly meetings to address issues of concern to…