Undergraduate laboratory courses can provide opportunities for students to participate in science practices. This requires rethinking both curricula and instruction. Science practice--based courses require students to be positioned as epistemic agents, implying a shift in instructor role. Teaching assistants (TAs) are the primary instructors for…

For SCC Soft Computer, a clinical information management systems provider, learning and development long has played an essential role in maintaining a high-growth global company. In 2010, the organization proved through ramped-up offerings, improved training success rates, and continual programming evolution that training is still a top priority.…

This appendix contains descriptions of several laboratory-type experiences suitable for a training program for educational leaders. Activities include a series of 10-minute microlab experiences, lecturettes followed by skill sessions, T-Group games, and various other experiences to stimulate self-exploration, group intercommunication, observation,…

This appendix contains descriptions of three exercises designed to develop basic communications skills for improving interpersonal relations. Each exercise--designed to be engaged in by teachers in dyads, triads, quadruples, or similar groups without the presence of a skilled leader--includes a statement of the problem, description of the skill…

A new technique for teacher education has been developed in response to the belief that teacher education's number one priority is to be concerned with the emerging self of the teacher trainee. Research on effective teaching has revealed that it is not what the teacher is taught that is the critical factor but the way in which the knowledge and…

It appears from this study that volunteers may be largely self-selected in regard to social skills, and further training may not be necessary. The study thus lends some support to those who have argued that the success of nonprofessionals has much to do with their natural'' social skills. (Author)

Presents training program components for environmental consulting and testing positions: (1) preparation, (2) conducting the training, and (3) evaluating the training. (MCO)

The authors promote the position that the benefits tend to exceed the pitfalls of dual facilitation of intense small group experience and should become a more standard feature of laboratory training, for reasons of new trainer development, better learning experience for participants, and continuing skill development of experienced trainers. (AJ)

CENTRAL TO THIS DISCUSSION OF LABORATORY TRAINING IS THE PROPOSITION THAT, IN DESIGNING LABORATORY EXPERIENCES, ONE MUST CONSIDER THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE NATURE OF THE HUMAN PERSONALITY. BASIC NEEDS FOR SELF AWARENESS, SELF ACCEPTANCE, AND INTERPERSONAL COMPETENCE ARE MET THROUGH GROUP, INTERGROUP, AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS. SELF ACCEPTANCE IN PARTICULAR…

Laboratory facilities make possible the audio- and videotaping of counseling as well as live observation, and with these aides the counselor educator can help counselor trainees significantly improve their counseling skills. Undermining the potential value and success of the laboratory practicum is the problem of counselee staffing. (Author)

The problem of improving university teaching is reviewed and is seen as part of the process of re-education and change. A teaching laboratory is proposed including provision for feedback mechanism, self-confrontation processes, simulation, and microteaching. Case studies of the use of microteaching and video recording are reported. (Editor/JT)

In training facilitators for laboratory groups, also known as T-groups or encounter groups, the majority of group facilitators and therapists advocate an experiential apprenticeship in an ongoing group. However, the actions of an inexperienced facilitator trainee may have a negative effect upon the members of the group. The author experimented…

Article describes the Vocational Rotational Laboratory, a teacher education course that supplements the vocational curriculum with on-the-job experience. (Editor/MB)

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This compilation lists 24 abstracts of ERIC documents related to human relations training in education that have been announced in Research in Education (RIE) through June 1969. The following information is presented for each document: (1) The basic bibliographic data (including author, title, place of publication, publisher, publication data, and…