Designed to assist technical assistance center staff members and other inservice providers, this workshop leader's guide contains step-by-step procedures for preparing, organizing, and presenting a one-hour workshop on advanced skills for teachers, administrators, and others associated with Chapter 1 programs. Sections of the guide include: (1) an…

In late 1988, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary celebration, the International Institute for Educational Planning organized an international workshop to review the major problems faced by education today and to consider the future of educational planning worldwide. The workshop brought together researchers, planners, and specialists from all…

An elementary school administrator designed and implemented a practicum study meant to enable students to gain citizenship skills needed for prosocial interactions with peers and adults. It was expected that the kindergarten through sixth-grade students would use practices acquired from their studies of law, government, and citizenship to direct…

An outline for a communication strategies training program/workshop is provided that is specifically designed to meet the preservice and inservice needs of special educators. It is based upon the collaborative consultant model and provides specific, but flexible, training plans. The various communication strategies are described: (1) empathetic…

A study replicating a previous experiment and study, Bean, Bishop and Leuer (1982), examined the usefulness of the Theoretical Orientation to Reading Profile (TORP) in measuring change in teachers' theoretical orientation to the reading process as a result of inservice education. Subjects, 12 elementary school teachers who attended a nine day…

The Graduate Assistant Orientation at New Mexico State University is described. The objective of the orientation is to provide teaching assistants (TAs) with excellent role models for university teaching. The orientation, which is voluntary, communicates to TAs that feelings of uncertainty are understood by the staff. The manner in which the…

This publication is intended to help production staff understand (1) what job specifications are, (2) why written specifications are important, and (3) what is involved with documenting specifications. A definition of job specifications is followed by a discussion of the importance of and necessity for such specifications as regards the…

Noting that universities seldom provide writing instruction at the dissertation level or, as is too often the case, at any level of graduate education, this paper provides a rationale for dissertation training at the graduate level, and explores the dissertation workshop at a west coast university. The first half of the paper discusses six…

Intended to help speech communication professionals become involved in developing, implementing, and evaluating marital or family enrichment programs, this booklet discusses the theory and practice of using marital enrichment programs to increase family harmony. The first section contains an overview of selected enrichment programs, as well as…

Part of a series designed to facilitate integration of severely handicapped students, the booklet presents a module on promoting the acceptance of individual differences. The instructor's information lists objectives and procedures for addressing five competencies: (1) to develop an awareness of one's own attitudes toward disabled persons to…

This occasional paper is intended as a practical guide to teachers in further and higher education who are involved in continuing professional development (CPD) and wish to use a strategy of participative workshops. Section I is a brief explanation summarizing the educational justification for the learner-centered approach to CPD. In Section II…

These two documents address the issue of dealing with blame for farm families in crisis. The first document, for the adult student, discusses how and why people blame each other, with emphasis on the current farm financial crisis. It is noted that blaming occurs primarily at the anger and depression stages of the loss cycle and that, when losing…

The Service Delivery Assessment (SDA) model is a human services evaluation tool which offers a viable alternative to more traditional approaches and is appropriate for small local evaluations as well as large national studies. There are five phases to an SDA study: assignment, pre-assessment, design, analysis, and communication of the findings.…

These worksheets are designed for use by participants in workshops on implementing sex equity in physical education programs. Subjects of the workshop sessions are: (1) assessing Title IX implementation in physical education programs; (2) basic guidelines for physical education Title IX compliance; (3) physical education case examples; (4)…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether student teachers participating in an experimental seminar, which included peer coaching based on self-identified, instructor-, and peer-determined instructional needs, would demonstrate greater instructional skill transfer to the elementary classroom than would student teachers participating in a…