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Hawke, Sharryl – 1975
In 1973, in the Fairfax County Public Schools, a series of one-session courses was created in which teachers with special skills or interests would share their knowledge and curriculum ideas with other teachers. The program, called Mini-Versity, operated on the assumption that teachers learning from other teachers was the best way to learn.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. – 1972
Developed as part of a high school quinmester unit on business speech, this guide provides the teacher with teaching strategies for a course designed to help people in the business world. The course covers the preparation and delivery of a speech and other business situations which require skill in speaking (sales techniques, committee and group…
Descriptors: Business English, Business Skills, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Groff, Irvin – 1972
Developed for a high school quinmester unit on the language of persuasion, this guide provides the teacher with teaching strategies for a study of the speaker or writer as a persuader, the identification of the logical and psychological tools of persuasion, an examination of the levels of abstraction, the techniques of propaganda, and the…
Descriptors: Advertising, Communication (Thought Transfer), Critical Thinking, Curriculum Guides
1969
The role of voluntary workers in the social services is the focus of this book. Following the introduction (Chapter 1), the remaining nine chapters discuss the following topics: The Background to Voluntary Work Today; The Volunteer; Volunteers as Others See Them; What Voluntary Workers Do; Organization of the Work of Volunteers; Recruitment and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Community Programs, Extension Education
Community Health Service (DHEW/PHS), Arlington, VA. Div. of Health Resources. – 1971
A program of education including training materials is presented to improve the technical proficiency of medical record clerks in small, rural hospitals. The program is planned for fifteen days of instruction or approximately 120 hours including evaluation, orientation and discussion sessions. Students are expected to have a high school diploma…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Clerical Workers, Guides
Roberts, Arthur D.; Gable, Robert K. – 1972
This study assessed some of the cognitive and affective elements for both the traditional and mini curricula. The hypothesis, stated in the null form, was there will be no difference between students in the mini-course curriculum and the traditional curriculum on a number of stated cognitive variables (focusing on critical thinking and reading…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Cognitive Measurement, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Design
Strand, Melvin L. – 1976
The purpose of this study was to determine the reactions of ninth-grade students to a three-week language arts minicourse program offered for three consecutive years at a junior high school in Minnesota. The students registered each year for one minicourse from a selection of approximately six. The courses were primarily activity centered and were…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Elective Courses
Fricks, Richard – 1976
Based on two quilting minicourses conducted by the author with students from grades 7 through 10, this curriculum guide provides interdisciplinary objectives, student activities, and teaching procedures for a unit in which the rudiments of quilting are taught and practiced. Contents include (1) a list of objectives and concepts under headings of…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Art Activities, Curriculum Guides, Handicrafts
Cook, Paul – 1973
This booklet, one of a series developed by the Frederick County Board of Education, Frederick, Maryland, provides an instruction module for an individualized or flexible approach to 7th, 8th, and 9th grade science teaching. Subjects and activities in this series of booklets are designed to supplement a basic curriculum or to form a total…
Descriptors: Biology, Cardiovascular System, Health Education, Individualized Instruction
Griffin, Elizabeth – Outdoor Communicator, 1982
Anne LaBastille, a role model for women interested in exploring the wilderness, gives hints on lessening the effects of acid rain, tells outdoor educators to encourage women to explore the wilderness and to take children outdoors to experience nature, and predicts a future economic slump for outdoor education. (LC)
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Children, Discovery Learning, Economic Factors
Coleman, Karen; And Others – Journal of Developmental & Remedial Education, 1979
Contains articles describing: (1) a writing laboratory at Cedar Crest College (Pennsylvania); (2) 12 biology minicourses used at Elizabethtown Community College (Kentucky); (3) the "Self-Persuasion for Study Improvement Project" at East Tennessee State University; and (4) a vocabulary acquisition program used to help University of North Carolina…
Descriptors: Biology, Learning Laboratories, Mathematics Instruction, Minicourses
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Rickards, Tudor; Freedman, Brian – Journal of European Industrial Training, 1979
Current methods of introducing creativity techniques in industrial training courses can be modified to increase the amount of personalized learning, according to the authors. They offer a framework for a new approach to creativity training in short courses and workshops, with both in-house and business school examples. (MF)
Descriptors: Course Organization, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Individual Development
Burton, Gwen – 1989
Like many parts of the United States, Colorado is facing a significant hazardous waste problem. Radioactive and chemical wastes generated by the Rocky Flats Nuclear Plant, the toxic Lowry Land Fill Site, industrial dumps, and heavy land and air traffic contribute to water, land, and air pollution in the state. As part of a statewide response…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Responsibility, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives
Maurer, B. B. – 1982
The roots of clergy education at West Virginia University (WVU) came from the American Country Life Movement in the early 1900's. Under the joint sponsorship of an ecumenical commission and WVU, a state ministers' conference was launched in 1927 at Jackson's Mill which over the years became a conference center for all types of church groups. With…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Church Workers, Clergy, College Curriculum
Public Health Service (DHEW), Washington, DC. Div. of Indian Health. – 1975
A series of mini courses in the basics of management, information systems, and personnel, the workshop was developed for tribal health program managers. The workshop aimed to provide: supervisory management training which was relevant to the need of tribal health supervisors; demonstrable evidence of understanding and application of new skills;…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, American Indians, Community Health Services, Course Descriptions
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