Describes a summer externship program in Nevada which offers educators a stipend to spend 90 hours at a summer jobsite in their home community. Discusses the many benefits to educators and to employers. Discusses the author's experience in her summer externship, and the deep influence it had in her second-grade class teaching. (SR)

Discusses the four-week summer Memphis (Tennessee) Urban Writing Institute, during which a furor erupted over the dilemma of grading. Provide a number of approaches to grading students' writing, including minimalist grading, cassette grading, collaborative grading, and portfolio grading. Suggests that teachers consider the grading dilemma and…

The fright and uncertainty they themselves felt in unfamiliar places and situations enable teachers to take back to their classrooms an empathy with students who are ill-adjusted to school. Describes the Live, Learn & Teach program (EJ 144 148) developed by the University of New Hampshire for stimulating teachers' interest in changing fixed…

Describes a statewide co-operative College-School Science Program (NSF supported) using Introductory Physical Science as a means to improve physical science teaching in grades 8 and 9. Teachers received summer and inservice training regarding I.P.S. inquiry methods, and behavioral objectives. (LS)

Describes the Teacher Externship in Business and Industry summer program that provided teachers with first-hand experience of what today's work world is all about. Notes that teachers indicated the program would help them to prepare their students for the world of work. (SR)

To meet the need for technical updating and media development for automotive teachers, a short course was offered on the campus of Ferris State College in the summer of 1975. The innovative program proved highly practical in implementation and was favorably evaluated by the participants. (Author/BP)

Participants in interdisciplinary professional development workshops and reunions expressed satisfaction and reported positive effects on their teaching. Although the program met participants' expectations, sessions did not consistently reflect principles of effective teaching and learning. This discrepancy is discussed. (Author/MLW)

The first dozen years of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Summer Institutes Program, 1954-65 are reviewed. The full report entitled "An Investment in Knowledge" is scheduled for publication in 1969. The forerunner of NSF Summer Institutes was held during July and August of 1954 at the University of Washington. Fifty-three high…

Describes the Live, Learn and Teach program, an eight-day wilderness experience in New Hampshire's White Mountains, designed to develop student teacher relations. It includes six weeks of curriculum-design sessions and a practicum in which teaching teams experiment with new skills and behaviors as they design and carry out an activity-centered and…

Forty-two teachers and supervisors, selected by the Texas Education Agency, participated in a 2-week workshop designed to provide an intensive study of the disadvantaged and to increase the effectiveness of teachers of culturally disadvantaged youth, primarily in the area of occupational training. Scholars in the fields of sociology and psychology…

Describes the Colorado Writing Project, a teacher-consultant inservice training program, and presents the results of holistic scoring of papers by students whose teachers had attended inservice meetings conducted by the teacher-consultants. (HTH)

This descriptive and evaluative report covers a National Defense Education Act, Title XI, summer institute which was attended by 24 industrial arts teachers, supervisors, and teacher educators from 15 states. The objectives of the institute were to teach information about industrial materials and to allow participants to develop instructional and…

Ways in which colleges and high schools can form partnerships and make the most of the benefits for both partners are discussed. The Coalition of Essential Schools, a school/college collaboration, is described. A collaboration at Brooklyn's Adelphi Academy is discussed. (MLW)

The institute was designed to provide industrial arts teachers with updating experiences in fluid power education. It had four educational phases: technical instruction, directed field experiences, teaching strategies, and professional development. The latter involved meeting with participants in two other institutes. Twenty-one participants were…

This report describes three programs in Oregon and Washington which provide opportunities for teachers to update their skills by spending their summer in structured work experience or internship programs in business and industry. Benefits to teachers are listed as well as characteristics of successful programs. The programs are: (1) Economic…