Educators from a sample (11 percent) of public, diocesan, and independent schools in Chester and Delaware counties, Pennsylvania, were surveyed for information on the content and quality of their inservice programs for school personnel. Their responses to 16 questions (such as type of inservice activities and influence of the program on change) are categorized and interpreted. Recommendations for the counties' inservice programs, made on the basis of these responses, primarily pivot around...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Inservice Education
Five papers describe components of an inservice program: (1) the establishment of goals which reflect basic learning principles; (2) necessary components of total inservice program; (3) the identification and meeting of reading teachers' needs and teacher involvement in planning; (4) inservice programs in the large school; and (5) the description of an existing inservice program in a small school. References are cited for individual articles. (This document previously announced as ED 027 161.)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Inservice Education, Reading Instruction, Teachers, Russell, Dwane
This booklet describes the Washington, D.C., Teacher Aide Program (TAP), a project designed to develop methods of training nonprofessionals to work with teachers in schools attended by children of low-income families. Chapters include: (1) a descriptive overview of the program with notes on its background and the staff; (2) discussion of the recruitment and selection, background and personal qualifications, assignments, and specific duties of the 80 teacher aides and four field coordinators;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Inservice Education, Job Training, Occupational Information, Teacher Aides
A SURVEY OF THE IN-SERVICE EDUCATION PRACTICES IN 155 SMALL (10 TO 40 TEACHERS) SECONDARY SCHOOLS WAS CONDUCTED IN NEBRASKA DURING THE 1966-67 SCHOOL YEAR. QUESTIONNAIRES WERE SENT TO ALL THE ADMINISTRATORS AND TO A RANDOM SAMPLE (6 PERCENT) OF THE TEACHER POPULATION OF THE SCHOOLS. THESE INSTRUMENTS ASKED FOR DESCRIPTIONS AND EVALUATIONS OF PRESENT PROGRAMS AND OPINIONS CONCERNING THE KINDS OF IN-SERVICE EDUCATION EXPERIENCES NEEDED. TABLES ARE PRESENTED SHOWING (1) THE PERCENTAGE OF TEACHERS...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Surveys, O'HANLON, JAMES
This memorandum sets forth policies, objectives, plans and programs for providing opportunities to professional staff for development of their technical and managerial skills. Section titles are: Policy and Objectives; Methods of Achieving Objectives; Cooperative Determination of Training Needs, Professional Development Plan; Agency Financial Support For Courses Of Study Outside Of Regular Duty Hours; Evaluation of Training Received; Employee's Comments on First 6 months. Attachments include:...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Developmental Tasks, Guidance, Inservice Education, Professional Personnel,...
The Interagency Training Programs Catalog is one of four publications published by the Civil Service Commission that are specifically designed to provide agencies information on available training resources. This catalog is intended primarily for clientele in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and contains information on interagency training programs available almost exclusively in this locale during the fiscal year 1972. Courses are separated into two groups: open interagency training and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Agency Cooperation, Catalogs, Educational Programs, Government Employees, Inservice...
ERIC abstracts on inservice education for education staff and administrators, announced in RIE through october 1970, are presented. The key terms used in compiling this collection are "inservice courses,""inservice education,""inservice programs," and "inservice teacher education." The following information is presented for each document: author, title, place of publication, publisher, publication date, number of pages, ERIC document (ED) number, price...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Abstracts, Bibliographies, Clearinghouses, Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher...
This survey assembles information on the developments and trends in inservice teacher training in Asia, identifies the growing points of innovative approaches for improving inservice teacher preparation, and identifies ways that further education of teachers is linked to programs of curriculum development and the introduction of new teaching methods in schools. Questionnaires were sent all member states in Asia, and those from which responses were received were visited by the professional staff...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Surveys,...
The product of two summer institutes to prepare teachers and administrators for school integration, this report contains a resource manual on "Interpersonal Relationships Among Students." For full abstract of institute proceedings, see UD 009 479. For other resource manuals, see UD 009 480, UD 009 481, UD 009 483, and UD 009 484. (KG)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Inservice Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Resource Materials, School...
This program is a model of individualization in which participants select components based on individual needs. Each component includes a performance criterion test, a statement of learning objectives, various learning options, and a variety of carefully selected resource materials. The major objective of the program is to demonstrate a teacher and administrator inservice program in California that will provide teacher capability to function effectively in systems of individualized instruction....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrators, Individualized Instruction, Inservice Education, Models, Program...
In the general areas of in-service training and curriculum development, a significant level of innovation has occurred over the past decade. New and promising instructional models have been designed and are being implemented that offer alternatives to the traditional models used for the public schools. The purpose of this study is to identify and describe various new instructional models, to interrelate the diverse components of the different models, and to identify a set of variables that are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Technology, Inservice Education, Instruction, Instructional Materials,...
This report summarizes the Specialized Teacher Project of the Miller Mathematics Improvement Program funded by the state of California. The project provides inservice training workshops in mathematics for elementary school teachers. These teachers are then encouraged to provide specialist instruction in mathematics for their own class and one other class at the same grade level by means of a trade-off of teaching assignments. The objectives and procedures for these workshops are included, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Achievement, Elementary School Teachers, Inservice Education, Mathematics, Research,...
The project was designed to develop the procedures necessary to conduct inservice education programs cooperatively with state associations, based on the belief that classroom teachers (1) are able to plan and conduct inservice education programs designed to improve classroom instruction, and (2) are more receptive to educational change and new ideas when they originate through an educational group they control. The project was conducted in two phases: an initial planning conference of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Industrial Arts, Inservice Education, Pilot Projects, Regional Programs, Teacher...
The product of two summer institutes to prepare teachers and administrators for school integration, this report contains a resource manual on "Discipline Standards in Integrated Schools." For full abstract of institute proceedings, see UD 009 479. For other resource manuals, see UD 009 480, UD 009 482, UD 009 483, and UD 009 484. (KG)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Discipline Policy, Inservice Education, Instructional Innovation, Resource Materials,...
Prepared for outreach projects of the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program, the manual presents information on developing an efficient yet thorough training workshop to teach others to replicate a program. Twelve steps are described: (1) identifying model components (grouping according to chronology, personnel involved, etc.); (2) defining model components; (3) gathering information (resource folders, bibliography); (4) brainstorming training content; (5) reviewing training content;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disabilities, Inservice Education, Institutes (Training Programs), Outreach Programs,...
Auburn University (Alabama) sponsored a project to bring together persons from several Southeastern states practicing, or aspiring to practice, a particular speciality in junior college education. An in-service and a resident group were served. Sixty persons were involved in the in-service portion that consisted largely of a 2-week conference. The 26 individuals in the resident portion also participated in the 2-week conference, but continued for a year of full-time study at the university...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Education, Inservice Education, Professional Training, Program...
This paper, originally presented with a film introduction to the minicourse model, overviews the development of a series of microteaching courses designed to train teachers the specific teaching skills necessary to function effectively in the teaching-learning situation. Advantages of the instructional sequence are noted: focus on specific teaching skills which are precisely defined and illustrated in an instructional film, and practice in a microteaching lesson with specific feedback via video...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Inservice Education, Instructional Films, Microteaching, Minicourses, Teaching...
With relatively few exceptions, most recent needs assessment questionnaires have dealt solely with either (1) identifying the level of interest that prospective participants have for attending an inservice program centered about a particular topic, or (2) identifying which among a number of topics generates the most enthusiasm. That is, most needs assessments are topic-oriented; consequently, little beyond the topic of concern is ascertained and decisions as to all other details of the program...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Education, Inservice Education, Needs Assessment, Principals,...
The product of two summer institutes to prepare teachers and administrators for school integration, this report contains a resource manual on "The Black Self-Concept." For full abstract of institute proceedings, see UD 009 479. For other resource manuals, see UD 009 480, UD 009 481, UD 009 482, and UD 009 484. (KG)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Blacks, Identification (Psychology), Inservice Education, Instructional Innovation,...
This two part Saskatchewan NewStart school aide curriculum guide outlines program content and procedures for trainees and for their instructors. Stressing the responsibility of trainees for much of the content impact, the first volume provides questions, training outlines, and other resources (including guidelines on microteaching) to equip trainees to use teacher aide skills, relate effectively to children, work harmoniously with staff, utilize personal potential, and cooperate with the school...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Guides, Inservice Education, Microteaching, Teacher Aides, Teachers,...
Reported is a summary of inservice programs held in North Carolina for implementing the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS). The workshops were five days in length and dealt with the philosophy of the program, instructional methodology, lesson content, use of materials and organisms, and use of the program for environmental education and for correlating instruction in various subject areas. Comments from teacher evaluations are included. Over 130 schools and 600 teachers were involved....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Inservice...
Twenty-six Maryland public school administrators and state education department personnel, who had current or expected responsibilities for some aspect of educational research, completed a training program designed to upgrade their research competency. The instruction, conducted through the University of Maryland Bureau of Educational Research and Field Services, comprised 16 three-hour sessions of lectures, seminars, and practicums held once a week from September through January 1967. Stress...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, Inservice Education, Research Methodology, School Personnel,...
This publication is a collection of articles which are related to elementary school mathematics. The authors note that the book was written primarily for elementary school principals, mathematics specialists and supervisors, and elementary school teachers. The articles discuss such topics as major issues in mathematics education, instructional procedures for teaching mathematics, inservice programs, and future directions for elementary school mathematics. (FL)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary School Mathematics, Inservice Education, Instruction, Mathematics...
Basically designed as an inservice training activity for vocational education personnel, the conference had three broad objectives: (1) to upgrade the professional personnel, involved in vocational educational programs in North Dakota, (2) to sharpen the focus of the role of vocational education in meeting the needs of people, and (3) to continue to foster a spirit of cooperation among the vocational program areas facing common educational problems. The format of the conference consisted of two...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conference Reports, Conferences, Educational Needs, Inservice Education, Speeches,...
Described is a workshop program for inservice education for North Carolina teachers implementing "Beginnings," the kindergarten component on the Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS). Teachers generally liked the workshop, liked the curriculum materials, and felt the program fit their pupils. A substantial number of teachers felt the Kits were not needed. (RH)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Inservice...
This manual is designed for organizers and teachers concerned with training personnel working at the primary and intermediate levels in government statistical offices. The major content consists of outlines for nine training courses: (1) Principles and methods of statistics; (2) Designing a statistical investigation; (3) Data collection by field work; (4) Data collection from records; (5) Data processing; (6) Presentation and publication of statistics; (7) Utilization of statistics; (8)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Course Descriptions, Data Processing, Guides, Inservice Education, Statistical...
In the sparsely populated 100,000 square miles of South Dakota and adjacent areas in Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota, a program (Project TAPE: Tactics for Applying Programs in Education) for disseminating information about elementary science curricula was funded by the National Science Foundation. Six part-time regional consultants were selected to be field representatives of the project. Regional consultants responded to requests for consultation from school districts and other responsible...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Evaluation,...
The Home and School Institute has developed three plans to train teachers and administrators to work more effectively with parents and the community. The basic goals of these programs are a) to improve the skills and attitudes of participants in working with parents and the community, b) to provide parent reinforcement of children's learning, c) to build more supportive community-school relationships, and d) to design and disseminate tested materials that can be of use to other schools. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Family Influence, Inservice Education, Parent Participation, Parent School...
The product of two summer institutes to prepare teachers and administrators for school integration, this report contains a resource manual on "The Negro in American History," developed with the help of Dr. John Hope Franklin. For full abstract of institute proceedings, see UD 009 479. For other resource manuals, see UD 009 480, UD 009 481, UD 009 482, and UD 009 483. (KG)
Topics: ERIC Archive, American History, Black History, Ethnic Studies, Inservice Education, Instructional...
This paper describes the types of attitudes and behaviors that might be destructive to an individual's sense of self-worth, and suggests that counselors in long-term care settings face the challenge of changing these. One strategy for counteracting potential dehumanization, offering in-service training to all levels of staff and administrators, is outlined in this paper. These materials are included: (1) an outline of the entire program which includes information on the target population,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Inservice Education, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relationship, Long...
The elementary guidance program aims at providing developmental, preventive, and remedial services, with the major emphasis on the developmental phase. The experiences in the pilot programs of elementary guidance in Louisiana have demonstrated that effective guidance services in the elementary school are contingent upon an understanding, willing, and ready staff. To bring about this readiness, an in-service training program has been found useful in determining what the elementary program is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Counselor Role, Elementary Education, Inservice Education, Pilot Projects, Program...
This volume is designed to provide information for teachers and prospective teachers who will teach the basic concepts of algebra normally taught in grade 9. Each section of the book contains background information, suggestions for instruction, and problems. Sections in the book include: (1) Numerals and Variables; (2) Open Sentences and English Sentences; (3) The Real Numbers; (4) Properties of Order; and (5) Additive and Multiplicative Inverses. Answers to problems are at the end of the book....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Algebra, Inservice Education, Instructional Materials, Number Concepts, Secondary...
The Great Plains National Instructional Television Library provides for the acquisition, storage, duplication, and distribution of videotaped instructional materials, and for the annual publication of this catalog. In addition to giving information on prices, acquisition, and previewing policies, the catalog describes and outlines each telecourse. Synopses are offered over a wide range of subjects in the categories of elementary and junior high telecourses, secondary and adult telecourses,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Catalogs, Educational Television, Inservice Education, Kinescope Recordings,...
Presented is the final report of the Special Education Simulation and Consultation (SECAC) Project designed to provide simulation-based inservice training to Michigan building principals. Part I reviews project goals, objectives, procedures, results, and learnings. It is explained that the training employed the Special Education Administrators Task Simulation game (which simulates the role of the special education director in local districts) and the Organizational Development conceptual...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrators, Consultants, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children,...
This document is focused on the various aspects of establishing a systematic approach to the inservice training mini-course in learning disabilities for classroom teachers. The training model is exemplary of a 4-hour, intensive training course designed and conducted by staff and consultants for the Merrimack Education Center. Its purpose is to serve as a resource, specifically for persons involved in establishing inservice training courses in local school districts and for school agencies,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Objectives, Inservice Education, Learning Disabilities, Staff...
In-service training is envisaged as an essential to the librarian's post-professional education. The effectiveness of this particular type of training is shown to be complementary to academic library education, which deals with principles and general practice. Specialized practices and the experience in-service training gives, assume a significance which mere theorizing and background knowledge often fail to bring out. In-service training may serve the further and more important purpose of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Evaluation, Inservice Education, Librarians, Library Education, Library Science,...
The third report of the greater Milwaukee area career education project documents the phase 3 activities and accomplishments of the project, from October 1974 to July 1975. The following objectives were accomplished. Contact persons have been established in each district to promote career education. Three one-week workshops, two adult career conferences, and a career education seminar for leaders from education, business, industry, labor, and the community were conducted. The publishing of a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Education, Inservice Education, Metropolitan Areas, Program Descriptions,...
The product of two summer institutes to prepare teachers and administrators for school integration, this report contains a resource manual on "Common Prejudices of Negroes and Whites." For full abstract of institute proceedings, see UD 009 479. For other resource manuals, see UD 009 481, UD 009 482, UD 009 483, and UD 009 484. (KG)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Black Attitudes, Inservice Education, Resource Materials, School Desegregation,...
One hundred eighty-nine documents published between 1960 and 1967 are abstracted. Documents are classified under the headings: "Background,""Legislation,""Planning,""Services,""Grants,""Manpower,""Roles of Organizations and Key Professionals,""Training--Inservice, Postgraduate, Staff Development,""Training--Residency and Academic Credit," and "Brochures and Curriculum Outlines." There is also a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Community Services, Inservice Education, Mental Health,...
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...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Competency Based Teacher Education, Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education,...
Divided into four phases, this project in career education includes the following aspects: planning of project policies and activities and securing resource materials; orientation of the school district staff to the project; integration of occupational information, exploration, and career education concepts into the curriculum, identification of potential dropouts, intensive occupational counseling for all junior and senior high school students; and data collection for the final evaluation and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning, Counselor Training, Decision...
This volume contains one of the four sets of materials produced for training science supervisors in educational technology. It contains a script and a black and white copy of each photographic slide used in five coordinated audio-tape and slide presentations. Audio-tapes and slides are not included with this report. The "curriculum revision" package lists the responsibilities of supervisors in assessing present curricula, leading and managing revision committees, public relations...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administration, Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Evaluation, Inservice...
Three national institutes for correctional staff trainers incorporated new techniques in an attempt to upgrade corrections programs through improved staff development. There were 78 trainer and 200 middle management staff and correctional officers involved in the program, representing more than 100 correctional institutions in the United States. The institutes lasted for 8 weeks and were divided into three phases. During the first 5 weeks the participants attended laboratory sessions, lectures,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Correctional Rehabilitation, Curriculum Guides, Inservice Education, Institutes...
Ten separate articles reviewing the training programs operated by 10 corporations and agencies are collected in this booklet. The articles describe the programs and assess their implications for teacher education. An introduction and a summary of the implications complete the document. The titles and authors of the articles are "Introduction: Corporate Training in Perspective," by W. Robert Houston; "Arthur Andersen & Co., Societe Cooperative: Implications from a Big-Eight...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, Industrial Training, Inservice Education, Motivation, Organizational...
This document briefly covers a number of topics to be considered in the planning of inservice education programs. Topics include: (1) a statement of the Ohio Education Association's (OEA) policy on inservice education and professional development; (2) an overview of inservice education and professional development programs; (3) some common pitfalls of inservice education; (4) the inservice continuum demonstrating that up until now most inservice activities have been conducted and designed to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Participation, Professional...
This annual report provides an overview of the major activities of the Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL) for the fiscal year ending November 30, 1971. Three major areas of concentration are a) systems for training education personnel, b) in-service staff training, and c) inquiry oriented instructional systems. Systems for training education personnel emphasize special techniques to promote greater awareness on the part of the teacher of self, pupils, and others. The program...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Educational Programs, Educational Research, Inquiry,...
This California Evaluation Improvement Project (EIP) Program Evaluation workbook has two purposes. It can be used as a learning and instructional aid while one masters the procedures, techniques, and methods of program evaluation. Used this way, it helps the practitioner summarize and put into practice the subject matter presented in the EIP Program Evaluator's Guide. It is best used, however, as a working notebook which the trained program evaluator can use for recording his or her plans as...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Evaluation Methods, Evaluators, Inservice Education, Measurement Techniques, Needs...
The individualized instructional unit is intended for use in inservice or preservice education of counselors and was designed to provide a clear, concise overview of career education and to help counselors understand precisely what their support duties are. The unit is divided into five sections, each based on performance objectives. At the completion of the unit, the participant should be able to demonstrate an understanding of: (1) the basic concepts of career education, (2) the rationale for...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Education, Counselor Role, Counselor Training, Individualized Instruction,...
The report evaluates and describes a series of 18 regional inservice training workshops designed for school psychologists working with visually impaired students. The project's background is described in terms of the need for school psychologists to be trained to work with the specific problems manifested by visually impaired public school students. A discussion of program planning reviews preliminary survey results. The section on program implementation materials examines regional coverage and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Inservice Education, Program Evaluation, Regional Programs, School Psychologists,...
In June of 1971 and of 1972, the New York State Department of Education's Division of Teacher Education and Certification, in cooperation with the Department's Information Center, undertook a survey of direct in-service expenditures by local school districts. Seven hundred and one of the state's 735 operating school districts (New York City and certain very small districts were excluded) were asked to supply the local, categorical, and direct Federal in-service expenditures for their districts...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Expenditures, Inservice Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Teacher Workshops,...
