Seeing the need to change parts of one's teaching project may be the starting point for scholars to seek inspiration and guidance from educational psychologists for innovation in their teaching. In this report, the authors address the question of how educational psychologists can assist lecturers in higher education with the implementation of…

With funding from NSF, the Prime the Pipeline Project (P[cube]) is responding to the need to strengthen the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) pipeline from high school to college by developing and evaluating the scientific village strategy and the culture it creates. The scientific village, a community of high school…

An inservice training program designed to enhance the ability of both regular and special educators to successfully function as placement team members is described. The program features introductory needs assessment, focus of initial activities on leadership personnel, an emphasis on collaboration in decisionmaking and sharing, demonstration of…

Describes Duluth, Minnesota's interdisciplinary program, Project BASIC, which incorporates five major art forms into the elementary curriculum. Schools employ artists-in-residence and in-service training to expand teacher use of arts in the classroom. Results of a research study to measure gains in self-concept and creativity are included. (AM)

Focuses on the aesthetic environment of the classroom and playgrounds in which art teachers may be trying to teach aesthetics. Nothing that the school environment too often overcomes any effort to teach aesthetics, the author founded the Institute for Environmental Education, which combines architecture, art education aesthetics, and…

Stockton State College, New Jersey, recognizes that the teaching of writing is not the responsibility of the English department alone, but of the entire college faculty. Stockton's writing across the curriculum project is designed to give all faculty members general theoretical information and practical training in writing instruction and the…

Discusses the need for preservice and inservice teacher training in drug education methods, incorporating the principles of psychology, sociology, health science and communications. Outlines topics for inclusion such as responsibility for drug education, theories of drug use, legal aspects, family influence and community action. (JAC)

Describes implementation through evaluation of the Nutrition Education Development Project, an innovative approach to preparing teachers for incorporation nutrition into the existing curriculum. (MA)

A Texas high school has initiated a writing across the curriculum program in which an English instructor first taught the writing process to 10 colleagues from social studies and science. The first session brought out concerns, questions, and frustrations and laid the foundation for trust and understanding in the working relationship. Actual…

The document reports on six minigrant projects designed to promote cross training and dialogue among New York State professionals concerned with the education of handicapped individuals. Sections on each project contain a project abstract and/or project objectives, a description of project activities and a list of products developed during the…

The work of teaching faculty in the major disciplines how to teach writing often falls to the writing program administrator (WPA), and this paper explains one WPA's hypotheses, reasoning, and methods used in promoting writing in a college engineering department. Principles underlying the program related to the motivations of faculty and the…

The teacher inservice handbook and program described is intended to demonstrate through group exercise how to improve the functioning of a team in an instructional setting. Three main sections are outlined--discovering what the situation is, improving meetings, and improving the quality of relationships. This descriptive report provides additional…

A two-week summer institute for non-art teachers sponsored by the Philadelphia Museum of Art is described. Participants learned about the visual arts in order to enhance the teaching of subjects other than art. Teachers had to develop a classroom project that would demonstrate what they had learned at the institute. (RM)

An in-service teachers' training programme was designed aiming to encourage art teachers to learn through theoretical and artistic experiential activities in a specific environmental setting (Lemithou environmental education centre, Cyprus). The programme was based on the use of the environment as an educational resource, and sought to develop…