The NURTURES project, consisting of three phases, was implemented per its original timeline. Hiring, planning, piloting, and implementation were all completed in a timely manner with regards to the original timeline. Elements of the project were modified for improvement based upon reflection and formative evaluation findings. During the Planning…

This article describes the evaluation of a project designed to provide in-service training for teachers in rural schools in Outer Mongolia in techniques of independent and co-operative learning. Difficulties faced by Mongolian teachers in implementing a new national standards based curriculum were identified by the Mongolian State Education…

We conducted a series of summer workshops on bioinformatics to increase educators' knowledge of this new field of inquiry with the assumption that their knowledge will, in turn, impact student achievement. The workshops incorporated experiential learning and self-reflection (Loucks-Horsley et al. 1998). Educators demonstrated significant increases…

The School Program Advancing Career Education (SPACE) was initiated in nine pilot schools in Greeneville and Greene County Tennessee in January 1973. The initial six months of program planning were climaxed by a 10-day workshop for the planning commission, consisting of 30 principals and staff members. This workshop was a cooperative effort of…

A WORKSHOP FOR SUPERVISING-TEACHERS WAS ORGANIZED TO PLAN, EXPLORE, AND INNOVATE A MORE COMPLETE PROGRAM IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. THE WORKSHOP ALSO INCLUDED DISCUSSION OF ESSENTIAL PHASES OF THE OFF-FARM AGRICULTURAL OCCUPATIONS AS THEY APPLY TO THE PREPARATION OF STUDENT TEACHERS. THIS REPORT INCLUDED (1) A LIST OF PARTICIPANTS FROM 11 WESTERN…

Describes the opportunities available in summer workshops and graduate programs for music teachers. The impact of the workshops and programs on improving teacher effectiveness is evaluated. Criteria are included for evaluating program offerings for their usefulness to teachers. The author offers suggestions to workshop planners to improve the…

Participants in the 1955 National Science Foundation Summer Institutes for high school and college science teachers were given questionnaires during the first and last weeks of their institute to determine their background and opinion of what they expected from the institute and degree of satisfaction. A total of 364 before and after pairs of…

Seeking to evaluate the impact of three summer workshops to improve the teaching of writing at all school levels, the sponsors of the workshops (Georgia State University/Southeast Center for the Teaching of Writing) used both a telephone survey of half the people attending two of the workshops and four pretest-posttest instruments. The instruments…

Describes a two-week summer workshop designed for middle school science teachers and based on the modeling of teaching methods and techniques. Advocates active workshops and provides data from a workshop evaluation showing how effective such a workshop can be. (HB)

In this study, 3 institutes (summer 1970) for training teachers of migrant children were evaluated. Whether the 3 institutes brought about positive attitude change in the participants was selected as the basis of the evaluation, which used a non-equivalent control group design. There were 3 measures of teacher attitude: an adaptation of a semantic…

Evaluates a summer writing workshop and thanks the director and the state governor for initiating it. (NKA)

In summer 1987, the Maricopa Writing Project held two faculty workshops to encourage community college instructors' involvement in writing across the curriculum. Faculty from all seven campuses in the Maricopa Community College District and two educational centers, representing fields such as Accounting, Administration of Justice, Art, Economics,…

One of the problems encountered by adult basic education (ABE) teachers was the lack of understanding of the process of curriculum development. This resource document contains an orientation to and an evaluation of the two-week teacher training institute held at Memphis State University. The first session dealing with instructional objectives…

The impact of 2-week summer workshops and weekend reunions on college faculty who participated in the Stanford Program for Faculty Renewal was assessed using a questionnaire completed by 123 workshop participants, workshop and reunion observations, and interviews with 18 persons at 10 campuses. About two-thirds of the respondents were associate or…

This overview of the Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP) discusses the initiation and development of BAWP, the proliferation of programs based on the Bay Area model, and the establishment of the National Writing Project (NWP). The basis for BAWP is described as the recognition that there are outstanding teachers of writing in the schools and that…