Summarizes proceedings and student experiences at the 1980 Science Career Workshop for Physically Disabled Students at the Lawrence Hall of Science (University of California). Includes a description of the key-note speaker's topics, and other workshop activities. (DS)

Discusses the role of the museum as a community resource in humanities education for the public schools. Describes several teacher workshops involving use of the museum to enrich the classroom's current humanities curriculum. (DS)

Century III, a nonpolitical, nonsectarian research foundation, has found through the workshop process (involving both reflection and interaction) that consensus on moral standards exists. (Author/WD)

Describes some of the services and programs of special interests to high school chemistry teachers that are being provided by ACS, and meant to make ACS membership more attractive to the teachers. (GA)

The concept of home economics occupations conferences is examined, focusing on types of activities presented at such conferences, why such conferences are important, and how this concept can help home economics teachers. A list of suggested workshop subjects is provided. (CT)

Examines the impact of a workshop on death and dying on death anxiety, life satisfaction, and locus of control for a group of middle-aged and older adults. Results revealed a small but significant decrease in death anxiety in the experimental group. (Author)

Describes a three-day workshop for science and technology reporters to encourage them to seek a better understanding of scientific and technical aspects of public policy issues and help them understand some problems researchers face when dealing with the mass media. Includes sample articles written and presented at this workshop. (SK)

Choice Awareness is a cognitive-affective-behavioral system designed to enable people to make effective choices. Choice Awareness can serve in a group process that enables individuals to reach beyond their present patterns of behaviors and implement new choices. (Author)

Aspects covered include general inservice, needs assessment, the inservice format, locating speakers, organizing the list of participants, attention to details, inservice evaluation, generating the next inservices, and other coordinator activities. (DLS)

The mid-life assessment and counseling program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook has combined credit courses and noncredit workshops to meet mid-life needs. (SK)

Describes a workshop providing tools for self-confrontation and for acquiring self-help methods of making the desired changes in participants' daily lives. Many participants came to the realization that they are not passive victims of life, that they do make choices, and that they shape their lives by those choices. (Author/BEF)

Explores teachers' changing attitudes and understanding of learning processes. (HTH)

Describes five workshops designed to introduce content-area teachers to the theory and practice of writing across the curriculum. (MKM)

Examined impact of the Life Planning Workshop upon attitudes toward future planning and self-actualizing attitudes of feeling reactivity and self-regard. Results showed significantly higher means for experimental subjects on measures of positive attitudes toward future planning and feeling reactivity; these gains endured over a mean follow-up…

Describes series of successful marital workshops conducted at Kansas State Penitentiary, involving problems of inmates, their wives and children. Marital and family counseling seen as effective in implementing changes in inmates' attitudes and behaviors. Recommends marital counseling in all penitentiaries; suggests social workers work to make…