Realizing the need for in-service workshops and graduate-level courses for middle-school practitioners, the College of Education Continuing Education Program of the University of Pennsylvania conducted a series of three-credit, graduate-level workshops throughout southeastern Pennsylvania during the summer of 1974. This is an ongoing workshop series, and it will be continued during 1975. The workshop series was a competency-based, in-service teacher education program designed for middle-school teachers with actual middle-school teaching experience. The course was basically an investigation of the innovations, curricular and instructional dimensions, and the dynamics of communication processes in the emerging middle-school movement. Focus was on the relationships of theory to practice. (This document contains a description of the course, a copy of the workshop planning questionnaire, and a chart of the workshop objectives and procedures.) (PB)