The growing interest in creating relevant learning experiences for students has resulted in an increased emphasis on using the entire community as a teaching resource. Community resources can be defined as those locally available materials, persons, organizations or experiences that are useful and valuable for educational purposes. Community…

The Open Classroom Institute started June 7, 1971, with a 1-week teacher training workshop followed by a 7-week innovative summer program in various curriculum areas for American Indian students in grades 1 through 3 at Concho School, Concho, Oklahoma. This publication is a statistical descriptive report covering the period June 7 - July 30, 1971.…

This teacher training institute was aimed primarily at developing teacher efficiency in the writing of behavioral objectives and in developing individualized instructional programs. The grant for the inservice program came as a result of communication between the schools of the ES '70 network which highlighted the need for training in these areas,…

Three categories of information are presented in this issue of "Science for Society: Education Review," published by the Commission on Science Education of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. First, as examples of promising innovations in science teaching, there are brief reviews of a secondary school course, Science for…

A project developed and conducted a summer institute to offer training, hands-on activities, and workshops addressing educational technology for adult basic education (ABE), General Educational Development (GED) and literacy education teachers, administrators, and staff. During the first phase of the project, the institute was designed as a 3-day…

A 2-year followup evaluation was conducted with 1 male and 19 female rural Nevada regular and special education teachers and related service workers who had participated in two summer institutes on teaching practices for students with severe, multiple disabilities and students with emotional disturbances. Telephone interviews sought to determine…

Summer institute grouped secondary health teachers with current health research and education leaders, offering information to increase their perceptions of personal control over health teaching. Assessment indicated they developed a higher sense of personal control over health teaching and of influences exerted over personal health by powerful…

A study of 38 K-12 teachers at the 1996 summer institute of the Northern California Mathematics Project suggested that a learning environment incorporating technology, facilities for sharing computer solutions, and development of skills with software can foster effective and spontaneous learner-initiated use of technology for mathematical…

The components of a professional development model designed to empower school nurses to become leaders in school health services is described. The model was implemented during a 3-day professional development institute that included clinical and leadership components, especially coalition building, with two follow-up sessions in the fall and…

The Regional Inservice Training Model (RIST-M) was used to develop a weeklong inservice summer training program at Idaho State University for professionals working with deaf and hearing-impaired students in rural Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. There were several reasons for offering inservice training on a regional basis: a mission of…

Some papers from a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) symposium, "Significant Russian/Soviet Cultural and Pedagogical Developments of the 1980s: Educating American Students for the Year 2000," are presented. After an explanation of the system of transliteration used in the works, the following papers and authors are included:…

Results of surveys and studies suggest that too few African-American and female students aspire to and achieve doctoral degrees in biological sciences. It has also been suggested that gender and racial inequities exist in teaching and research faculties in higher education, especially in the biomedical sciences. Thus, few role models are available…

A final report is presented on a summer institute designed to introduce teachers to concepts and techniques for understanding and addressing problems of school climate and teacher stress at four levels: (1) the individual professional; (2) the school arena; (3) the classroom; and (4) the individual student. Sections of this report present…

This 1977-78 annual report of the Institute of Higher Education of the University of Georgia discusses teaching duties of the professional staff, the doctoral program in higher education, doctoral internships, workshops held in cooperation with other institutions, the summer scholar seminar, the law conference, faculty development in Georgia, and…

THIS REPORT ON INTENSIVE COURSES IN THE UNCOMMON LANGUAGES CONDUCTED AT 22 AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES DURING THE SUMMER OF 1962 IS THE RESULT OF A SURVEY UNDERTAKEN BY H.M. HOENIGSWALD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, R.B. NOSS OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE, AND E.N. MCCARUS AND J.K. YAMAGIWA OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. (BY…