This article concerns a summer environmental education institute designed for inner city teachers. Course instructors concentrated on first-hand experimental learning activities. Teachers worked on short studies of the areas designed to acquaint them with the natural environment. The need for environmental education in urban schools was stressed.…

A description is presented of the annual, week-long small schools summer institute sponsored by the Oregon Small Schools Association, and the Oregon Small Schools Program. (KR)

The Hebron Advanced Placement Institute, a group of teachers spending a week in the summer examining methods and materials for Advanced Placement English, is described. Its mission is to engender excitement for the discipline and to enable its participants to face confidently the challenge of AP instruction. (MLW)

Demonstrations are a mainstay of summer institutes, but the authors of this report noticed that responses to demonstrations lacked the energy and thoughtfulness that characterized other activities in the summer institute. So they created a protocol for responding elicited perceptive and thorough responses. The heuristic they developed, called…

Reflections on a field trip to a Chicago police district by participants in the elementary teachers' section of the law in American Society Summer Institute are given. (KM)

Thirty-four physics teacher from 23 states and two foreign countries participated in an intensive two-week course in lecture demonstrations. Mornings were spent brainstorming to suggest possible demonstrations, afternoons were devoted to presenting demonstrations to group. (DF)

Highlights the components of the Gannett Teaching Fellowship Program, a summer workshop designed to improve journalism teacher effectiveness. Notes the particular benefits of using videotape materials, slide presentations, and the PLATO computer learning system in journalism education. (RL)

Describes a summer institute for 56 French, German and Spanish teachers in Idaho, Oregon and Washington, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities as a prototype.

The Modern Language Association's summer institute model for foreign language professionals focused on interchange among state and local school program supervisors and college program coordinators. To further strengthen links between mandates and implementation, the institute must recognize participants' disparate expectations, institutional…

Twenty-five students who participated as Environmental Protection Agency summer fellows in 1972 were selected from among eight hundred applicants responding to a national recruitment program. The students chosen majored in a wide range of environmentally related studies on university and college campuses across the United States. Selected research…

The article discusses the development of two summer institutes, sponsored by the American Society for Training and Development for educators, bringing the education and employment communities together for positive interaction. (Author)

This report is the first of two volumes concerning the 1977 Teacher Corps Corps Member Training Institute (CMTI). Volume I is a description of CMTI as it occurred; Volume II is an analysis of the data. The information is divided into six general catagories: 1) a profile and description of the participants in the summer institute; 2) a discussion…

Prepared by participants in the 1968 National Defense Education Act Institute on Wood Technology, this syllabus is one of a series of basic outlines designed to aid college level industrial arts instructors in improving and broadening the scope and content of their programs. The guide is divided into three sections, the first of which deals with…