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Download full textWaggaman, John S. – Administrator's Update, 1984
Factors reported to be important in the design, implementation, and evaluation of professional development programs for department chairs are described. Attention is also directed to results from a goal-focused evaluation of the 6-year-old program to train new department heads in the nine state universities of Florida, a program that is being…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Higher Education, Inservice Education, Management Development
Watts, Gordon E., Ed. – Journal of Staff, Program & Organization Development, 1984
"The Journal of Staff, Program and Organization Development" is published quarterly as a medium for the exchange of information, both practical and theoretical, regarding the planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of practices and programs related to the effective and efficient functioning of institutions of higher education and the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Faculty Development
Martinez, Paul – FE Matters, 1999
The report provides a survey of staff development (SD) managers in 505 English, Welsh, and Scottish further education colleges (227 responses). The objective was to determine how much SD has changed and matured since incorporation, and how much it has created benchmarks. Findings indicated that few staff developers had a relevant SD qualification.…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, College Faculty, Colleges
Watts, Gordon E., Ed. – Journal of Staff, Program & Organization Development, 1986
These four issues of "The Journal of Staff, Program, and Organization Development" contain the following articles: "A Theory of Effectiveness: Faculty Development Case Studies," by Ronald Smith and Fred Schwartz; "Career Goals of Faculty," by Mary Deane Sorcinelli; "Effects of a Staff Development Center," by Donna Nickel; "Distinguished Teaching…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Educational Quality
Dummer, Gail M.; Windham, Geraldine M. – Practical Pointers, 1982
This publication describes an inservice training program implemented in September 1979 in the Montgomery County Public Schools (Maryland) to help physical education teachers involved with mainstreamed handicapped students. Issues emphasized in planning the program were relevance, information, convenience, and feasibility of the workshop model. Two…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Martin, Peter H. – 1980
Project RISE (Regional In-Service Education) is an inservice center serving teachers, administrators, support staff and parents in central Connecticut. It began in 1976 with state funding, and serves 500 teachers in nine rural and small town districts. An initial needs assessment provided a basis for planning and responding to individual teachers'…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Informal Organization, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Development
Steinmetz, Andres – NCME Measurement in Education, 1976
The discrepancy evaluation model (DEM) specifies that evaluation consists of comparing performance with a standard, yielding discrepancy information. DEM is applied to programs in order to improve the program by making standards-performance-discrepancy cycles explicit and public. Action-oriented planning is involved in creating standards; a useful…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Differences, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Shaumleffel, Virginia – OSSC Bulletin, 1982
Three writing projects in the state of Oregon, each of which uses a different approach to the teaching of writing, are described in this report. The first section of the report deals with the Coos County ESD Composition Improvement Project, which focuses on writing as a three-step process involving prewriting, writing, and postwriting. The section…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Educational Theories, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Fleming, Margaret, Ed. – Arizona English Bulletin, 1980
The 18 articles in the first section of this journal issue provide information about the National Writing Project, while the 22 articles in the second section discuss classroom writing projects. Among the topics discussed in the first section are the National Writing Projects in Arizona, Northeast Texas, and Boston; teacher behavior during…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, English Instruction, Inservice Teacher Education
Lewis, Karron G., Ed. – Journal of Staff, Program & Organization Development, 1994
These four issues of "The Journal of Staff, Program, and Organization Development" contain the following articles: "Faculty Developers: Are They Giving Away the X-Rays?" by Neil D. Fleming; "Alliances for Change: A Procedure for Improving Teaching through Conversations with Learners and Partnerships with Colleagues," by Richard G. Tiberius, and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Quality, Faculty College Relationship, Faculty Development
Dialogue: A Review of Labor-Management Cooperation in Public Education, 1984
"Dialogue" is a review of labor-management cooperation in public education, whose goal is to provide teachers, administrators, school boards, and labor relations practitioners with analyses of critical issues, information about current projects, reviews of relevant literature, and a variety of special features. Each issue is generally…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Employer Employee Relationship
Piper, Paul S. – Educational Innovations in the Pacific, 1995
The Yap Classroom Assessment Project is an attempt to introduce new methods of assessment, with an emphasis on performance assessment, into the practices of teachers in the Pacific, integrating the strengths of Yapese culture with children's education. The project, developed by the Pacific Region Educational Laboratory (PREL), concentrates on…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Community Involvement, Cultural Awareness, Educational Assessment
Burrello, Leonard C., Ed.; Wright, Pamela, T., Ed. – Principal Letters: Practices for Inclusive Schools, 1993
This paper describes a pilot project at a Janesville (Wisconsin) elementary school, which uses a cooperative teaching approach to integrate all special education and at-risk students, including students with behavioral problems, into general education settings. Key program components include teaming, collaboration, cooperative learning, joint…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Behavior Problems, Disabilities, Elementary Education
Smith, Hayden R., Ed. – Networker, 1979
This publication features thirteen articles on community involvement. Several programs and individuals concerned with the role of the community in educational development and improvement are discussed. The main points made in all of the articles are: 1) research on community involvement appears limited, and 2) research "experts" are grass roots…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Centers, Community Influence, Community Involvement
Klassen, Frank H., Ed.; Collier, John L., Ed. – 1972
The articles in this collection present international perspectives on change and innovation in teacher education. It is divided into six topic areas. Part one offers views on the social and economic implications of teacher education. In part two the problems and challenges for reform in teacher education in East Africa, Poland, France, Italy, and…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Competency Based Teacher Education, Curriculum Development, Developing Nations
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