For the mental health practitioner to keep abreast of his rapidly changing field requires that adequate, up-to-date information be sufficiently available to meet professional needs. This study attempted to identify the ways in which such information is gathered at workshops. The characteristics of participants in a series of 1969 Post Doctoral…

The Workshop was held to promote the use and encourage the exchange of information on the techniques of audiovisual librarianship and to develop these techniques. A forum was provided for discussion and exchange of views on the subject. Various aspects of the control, storage and exploitation of media are discussed in the five papers which range…

This monograph outlines the problems (and possible solutions) of private junior colleges, as discussed at two regional conferences in 1968. The two meetings were attended by 108 representatives from 50 colleges. Both stressed the importance of long-range development planning and its accompanying need for funds. Particular points covered were…

Twenty-four secondary teachers from six New England public schools and six private preparatory schools in the same towns participated in a 10-day seminar on Intercultural Understanding Through Education. The aim was to establish cooperative arrangement between public and private schools whereby programs in the improvement of intercultural…

At the Second Conference of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education held in Manila, November 1966, the Ministers of Education approved the proposal to establish a Regional English Language Centre. Subsequent meetings and discussions resulted in this Seminar on the Development of the Regional English Language Centre, held September 18-21, 1967,…

The Regional Seminar on the training of English Language teachers was convened by the Project Office of the Regional English Language Centre with the cooperation of the Government of the Republic of Singapore, and held at the Centre's interim premises in Singapore April 4-6, 1968. The 42 participants included delegations from all SEAMEC (Southeast…

The fifth meeting of the Regional English Language Centre Coordinating Committee held in Quezon City, Philippines in March 1969 was attended by Committee members from Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. S. Thavisakdi, SEAMES Director, was present, as were consultants from Thailand, the RELC Staff, and observers…

During its first year of operation 80 first-year teachers from nine public and private elementary schools in the Wilmette suburban district participated in the inservice program in which the individualized program for each teacher was developed cooperatively by the teacher and one or more staff members. A 5-day summer workshop was directed to the…

The Oxnard (California) Community Mental Health Center reports on evaluation of efforts to train parents in child management skills using behavior modification techniques. Rigorous training procedures, curriculum, and evaluation techniques have been developed over the past two years. Twenty groups of 3-15 parents have received training in behavior…

The workshop was attended by 72 participants representing a variety of health agencies. The disciplines they represented included medicine; nursing, hospital, and public health; psychology; nutrition and dietetics; social work; rehabilitation; occupational, physical, and speech therapy; volunteer and juvenile service work; counseling; training;…

Described is the inservice teacher training compontent for grade levels 1 through 3, of an early childhood urban education program funded under Title III in Paterson, New Jersey. Noted is development by teachers of tests for each of 10 previously identified performance objective areas. Described individually are workshops held on the following…

The Department of Educational Administration and Supervision of Memphis State University offered a Desegregation Workshop for approximately 200 administrators during the 1971-72 school year. This workshop, with some modification, continued the Memphis City Schools' initial efforts of 1970-71. This study determined the improvement of the…

This document describes the three programs in School and Parent Community Involvement developed by the Home and School Institute (HSI) in conjunction with the Trinity College's Master of Arts in Teaching Program. The in-service teacher development programs are a Master's of Arts Concentration in School and Parent Community Involvement, a five-step…

Evaluation materials and instructional content relevant to the IVD process for 1973-74 are presented. Section 1 of this report is an analysis of on-site experience of the validators in the employment of the Validator Self-Analysis Forms. Section 2 is Scientific Management Associates Educational Systems Division (SMA/ESD) evaluation of the 10…

This paper describes the Educational Media Center (EMC) at the University of Michigan School of Education and its attempts to become technologically ready for competency-based teacher education. The EMC, a facility for storing, producing, promoting, and disseminating learning resources, comprises seven components. A media library serves as a model…