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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
Gall, Meredith D.; Vojtek, Roseanne O'Brien – 1994
Many educators and policymakers find that deciding on the right staff-development program has become increasingly difficult. This brief, three-part monograph organizes staff-development objectives, models, and program-design features into an understandable, comprehensive framework. Part 1 advises readers on how to weigh a program's objectives.…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Faculty Development, Inservice Education, Instructional Improvement
Lankard, Bettina A. – 1996
Although not a new concept, mentoring is being seen as an increasingly important part of an individual's career and work force development, requiring sophisticated skills of those who provide it. Mentoring has been defined as "a relationship in which a more experienced person facilitates the broad development of a less experienced person on a…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Imel, Susan – 1996
In an effort to shift the focus of employment programs from unemployment to reemployment, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is funding the development and implementation of a one-stop employment system. The DOL has largely left states free to design their one-stop systems provided programs have these features: (1) universality, (2) customer…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Annotated Bibliographies, Career Centers
Imel, Susan – 1995
The literature base on workplace literacy is continuing to develop at an unprecedented pace. As of March 1995, the ERIC database contained over 900 items indexed with the term "workplace literacy." Of those publications, nearly 400 (44%) were added since 1992. The following trends have been observed in the workplace literacy literature since 1992:…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Curriculum Development, Educational Cooperation
Wonacott, Michael E. – 2001
Technological literacy includes the following elements: (1) the ability to use technology; (2) knowledge about the details of individual technologies and the processes of technology development; (3) a holistic understanding of the historical and cultural context of technology and adaptability based on initiative and resourceful thinking; and (4) a…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Development, Definitions
