The author describes Wisconsin's successful strategies for providing relevant inservice education to vocational agriculture teachers, including intensive workshops offered during annual State conferences, workshops throughout the State meeting needs identified in a Statewide survey, and a graduate-level University course for beginning instructors.…

The principal author developed a workshop through the Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) program, based on central Wisconsin's prairie chicken population, to present teachers with the knowledge and skills needed to provide quality environmental education. Seventeen high school teachers attended the 2003 workshop. Pre-and post-workshop surveys were…

The report analyzes progress of a project to provide inservice and instructional materials to help Wisconsin vocational teachers modify programs for handicapped students. The first section summarizes project accomplishments, including material collection, inservice activities, cooperation with other agencies, and development of audiovisuals on…

Describes an ongoing program that brings together science faculty members at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and area school science teachers. The program offers lecture-dinner evenings and an annual science teacher day. Concludes that the program is well attended, cost effective, and readily transferrable to other locations. (PR)

The purpose of the project was to plan and conduct workshops designed to upgrade the basic teaching skills of part-time vocational teachers in the Wisconsin Vocational-Technical Adult Education System. The project consisted of designating the pedagogical skills to be learned, developing an instructional booklet to be correlated with the workshop…

OVER A PERIOD OF 4 YEARS A TAXONOMY OF QUESTIONING TO INCREASE VARIETY AND QUALITY OF THOUGHT IN THE CLASSROOM WAS DEVELOPED BY THE AUTHORS OF THIS REPORT. DURING AUGUST 1964 APPROXIMATELY 50 ELEMENTARY, JUNIOR HIGH, AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS WERE INVITED TO A WORKSHOP TO RECEIVE INSTRUCTION CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPMENT. THIS REPORT DISCUSSED…

To increase media utilization in Wisconsin's vocational-technical education districts, a study was made to determine factors that impede or enhance the use of media and a program was set up to implement the study findings. Following a literature review and surveys of educators, an inservice workshop was developed to teach applications of…

This workbook was developed for an inservice workshop to assist regular education teachers and others in screening and making more appropriate referrals for suspected learning disabilities. The first part of the workbook consists of a series of topic papers that form the theoretical base of the decision-making process used in the workbook for…

Wetland Perspectives, a 2-week teacher workshop held in July 1995, aimed to increase teacher understanding of some aquatic habitats of Wisconsin through Western scientific and Native American cultural perspectives. Workshop objectives included giving participants a more complete understanding of Wisconsin's wetlands, an opportunity to learn about…

This report describes phase VI of the Equity Staff Development project, an ongoing project to achieve equity and diversity at Wisconsin technical colleges by creating an institutional climate supporting achievement by all students. Among the project's major activities and outcomes are the following: the existing train-the-trainer format of peer…