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Bailey, Gerald D.; Ross, Tweed; Bailey, Gwen L.; Lumley, Dan – 1998
Using teams is an effective way to meet the challenges of breaking down teacher isolation, halting curriculum fragmentation, and creating a learning organization. This guide is designed to help school leaders train groups to become teams, guide them to become high-performance teams, and empower them to become technology-based teams. It contains…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Leaders Guides, Leadership Training, Team Training
Maine Univ., Orono. Cooperative Extension Service. – 1995
This leader's guide explains an outdoor environmental education program for youth, based on a child's natural learning progression: sensitivity and awareness, understanding and appreciation, and commitment and action. Chapter 1 discusses how to teach in the outdoors, including field trip planning and preparation, discipline tips, and suggestions…
Descriptors: Ecology, Environmental Education, Experiential Learning, Leaders Guides
Wilcox, Jeanie E. – 1985
This is a leader's guide for a workshop on coping with conflicts and targeted to married couples, especially those in young marriages, and to employees of businesses or corporations. The session titles are: (1) Mismatching Scripts; (2) Changing Scripts; (3) PIESS (Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social, Spiritual) Needs; (4) Getting Needs Met;…
Descriptors: Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Coping, Employees
Kimeldorf, Martin – 1999
Based on the view that intergenerational friendships between older adults and high school students enrich the lives of both groups, the Grandfriends Project is a program for bringing students and elderly members of the community together. High school students receive "basic training" for visiting a nursing home, are taught listening and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Discrimination, Aging (Individuals), Community Programs
Blum, Holly; D'Arcangelo, Marcia – 2000
Recent advances in neuroscience have engaged the interest of early childhood educators who believe that the more we know about the brain, the better able we will be to influence learning. This workshop facilitator's guide and set of two videotapes are designed to assist educators, students, caregivers, parents, and those providing services to…
Descriptors: Brain, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education, Early Experience
Zamani, A. Rahman, Ed. – 2001
This curriculum module is intended to help childcare providers understand how injuries happen and how, by planning ahead and taking simple precautions, most injuries can be avoided. The 3- to 5-hour curriculum is designed to fulfill the learning needs and licensing requirements of childcare providers in California. Introductory remarks present…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Child Caregivers, Child Health, Child Safety
Singer, Jerome; Singer, Dorothy – 1999
This video-based program trains parents and other child caregivers to engage 3- to 5-year-olds in simple, motivating learning games to strengthen cognitive, social, and motor school-readiness skills. The training materials consist of a manual for training facilitators and a training video demonstrating how to play each learning game with preschool…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Instructional Films, Instructional Materials, Leaders Guides
Zamani, A. Rahman, Ed.; Calder, Judy, Ed.; Cohen, Adena, Ed. – 2001
This curriculum module provides information and guidance on controlling communicable and infectious diseases in the childcare setting and is designed to fulfill the learning needs and licensing requirements of childcare providers in California. The curriculum provides 4 to 7 hours of training for childcare providers to be conducted by experienced…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Child Caregivers, Child Health, Child Safety
Bickart, Toni S.; Jablon, Judy R.; Dodge, Diane Trister – 2001
Noting that preparing teachers to be expert practitioners is a complex task, this handbook is intended to assist teacher educators in creating a comprehensive staff development program within a school or district, or in designing a course for teachers at the preservice or advanced degree level. The handbook gives step-by-step instructions for…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Perrin, Kate; And Others – 1985
Leadership training materials, to be used by both students and teachers, are organized in the following sections: (1) self-awareness; (2) what leadership is; (3) goal setting, the foundation of success; (4) communication, key to leadership; (5) organization, putting all the pieces together; (6) group process, working together; (7) problem solving,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum, Decision Making, Group Dynamics
Cox, Carole B. – 2000
Noting that grandparents in the parenting role are often overwhelmed by the problems of their children, grandchildren, and the social milieu in which they live, this manual presents a 14-session workshop series designed to empower grandparents who are raising their grandchildren alone. Designed to complement "To Grandmother's House We Go and…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Rearing, Child Welfare, Children
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. Dept. of Agricultural and Extension Education. – 1980
Designed to assist leaders in their roles as catalysts, advisors, and resource persons for the Pennsylvania Youth in Action 4-H Community Development program, the guide provides complementary educational, craft, and recreation suggestions to enhance student workbooks for three community development activity units. The first section focuses on the…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Community Development, Community Study, Educational Games
Gunderson, Margaret S.; Moore, Earl J. – 1982
This leader's guide is one in a series of three which make up the Middle School Seminar Series. Other guides in the series are Psychological Education and Achievement Education. The guide contains specific instructions for teaching each performance indicator of the goals and competencies which are stated at the end of each session; specific…
Descriptors: Group Guidance, Health Activities, Health Education, Humanistic Education
Molgaard, Virginia – 1985
This leader's guide contains materials for conducting a 1-, 2-, or 3-hour workshop to help teachers develop techniques and classroom activities that will address and alleviate student stress resulting from the rural crisis. Resources for the 1-hour program include introductory remarks, a 28-minute videotape about how the agricultural economic…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Leaders Guides, Learning Activities
Greenman, Jim – 2001
In response to the September 11th, 2001 terrorists attacks, "Comfort for Kids" was formed as a collaborative effort to provide support and resources to children and families directly affected. This facilitator's guide and student's guide represent one part of the three-pronged approach of the "Comfort for Kids" program. The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Child Relationship, Age Differences, Anger