The results of an experiment in increasing teacher-counselor cooperation through participation in a workshop for skill building in action counseling and empathy training are reported in this article. (JC)

The methodology and design implemented for the Continuing Education/Community Service Projects of the Gerontology Center at Pennsylvania State University was the first attempt to train a diverse body of service providers in aging. Identification of the population for training was a matter of exclusion rather than inclusion, with the direct service…

When administrators and teachers alike mutually search out ways to make their schools more person-centered, schooling then becomes the humane experience it ought to be. All the available resources can be brought to bear in the service of the student's self-actualization-the development of his unique potential. This is an essential part of…

THE NEED FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL IS EMPHASIZED, ESPECIALLY AS IT RELATES TO SOCIAL PROBLEMS (POPULATION EXPLOSION, URBANIZATION, RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION, IMBALANCE, AND POPULATION MOBILITY) WHOSE EVENTUAL SOLUTIONS DEPEND UPON EDUCATION. PARTICULAR AREAS OF EDUCATIONAL CHANGE REQUIRING INSERVICE EDUCATION OF…

This volume contains evaluation reports of programs implemented primarily during the summer of 1968, in the Los Angeles Unified School District, funded through Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Elementary level programs concentrated on educational enrichment, the development of staff in the areas of human relations and…

The purpose of this booklet is to offer some guidelines for inservice educators who are interested in teaching human relationships and communication skills in nursing homes. Getting It All Together (GIAT) was developed for people to improve their basic communication skills through a new approach to communication and interpersonal relationships. It…

Seven California school districts, all of them with substantial numbers of minority students, created a regional inservice program for teachers intended to make their understanding of and instruction of minority children more appropriate. Superintendents, students, and members of the communities were involved in the plans. Teachers received credit…

The purpose of the institute was: 1) to improve the teaching of Negro students; 2) to prepare Negro and white teachers to assume duties in predominately Negro schools; 3) to meliorate racial prejudice, to provide for Negroes to develop healthy self-images; 4) to prepare educators to deal with problems of race relations; and, 5) to prepare teachers…

This bibliography is comprised of abstracts of 115 ERIC documents (reports, books, articles, and speeches) on human relations activities for the schools, including sensitivity training and self-image enhancement activities. Six sections cover (1) background material on human relations, (2) general material on the need for intergroup activities,…

It is assumed that too few principals, teachers and counselors possess the necessary personal characteristics which facilitate the growth or self actualization of students. This study investigates whether these qualities could be developed, using a model of human relations training. Four hypotheses were formulated: (1) teacher self actualization,…

As an expansion of ED 026 320, the model for a Human Relations School sketched in this document is an attempt to answer these questions: What would it be like if a school were to see itself as a laboratory for living and learning in which the test that is known about human interaction were utilized? How would it be organized? What would be its…