The handbook provides suggestions and guidelines to assist local education agency personnel in planning and implementing inservice education programs for the teacher of the gifted and talented. Information is presented on the following topics: the need for inservice education; twelve guiding principles for inservice education (including use of a…

Designed for individualized study or inservice situations, the module is intended for training professional educators or paraprofessionals, under the supervision of professionals, in the proper administration of screening instruments. Emphasis is placed on the ability to provide valid data to diagnosticians. The work booklet covers the following…

The DALSTRA (DALis/STRAsser) Inquiry Teaching Strategy is a model of teacher behaviors regarding teaching as a process composed of three categories of actions: basic behaviors, goal-directed behaviors, and diagnostic behaviors. The materials in this document were designed for use in an inservice education program in DALSTRA inquiry methods, and…

Presented is a guide providing a step by step procedure and time line for planning and conducting inservice workshops for teachers of the gifted and talented. Considered are long range planning for an inservice training program, preparing materials for use in workshops, planning for individual workshops, conducting the workshop, materials used in…

Resulting from a special study institute sponsored by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, the workshop coordinator's kit (fifth in a series of inservice teacher training materials) focuses on the problem of identifying and relating the underlying goals from which a given educational operation exists. Outlined are objectives, procedures,…

The purpose of the Career Achievement Skills Training Program (CAST) is to equip students with the skills they need to make decisions and career plans. The author maintains that skills are observable, measurable and repeatable behaviors. He teaches these skills in three phases. First, students learn how to expand knowledge about themselves and a…

Resulting from a special study institute sponsored by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, the workshop coordinator's kit (seventh in a series of inservice teacher training materials) describes a group exercise stimulating the processes of analyzing a task in order to conduct an orderly accomplishment of the task. Outlined are the…

Resulting from a special study institute sponsored by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, the workshop coordinator's kit, (first in a series of service teacher training materials) focuses on providing a vehicle for interaction and cooperation in the design of an instructional game. Outlines are activity objectives (such as helping…

Resulting from a special study institute sponsored by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, the workshop coordinator's kit, (second in a series of inservice teacher training materials) focuses on defining objectives that relate to the learning of concepts. Outlined are workshop objectives (which include describing the interrelationships…

Resulting from a special study institute sponsored by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, the workshop coordinator's kit (fourth in a series of inservice teacher training materials) focuses on the relation between the learner's approach to an instructional problem and the design of the instructional experience. Outlined are objectives,…

Resulting from a special study institute sponsored by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, the workshop coordinator's kit (fifth in a series of inservice teacher training materials) illustrates a variety of instructional uses of audio tape recording techniques. Objectives, procedures and overview, and equipment and space requirements are…

Resulting from a special study institute sponsored by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, the workshop coordinator's kit (sixth in a series of inservice teacher training materials) focuses on experiences that allow the participants to design and try different types of games. Outlined are objectives, equipment needed, procedures, and…

Explains how schools, regardless of size, can provide ongoing and innovative programs for professional growth. (JM)

Resulting from a special study institute sponsored by the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, the workshop coordinator's kit (third in a series of inservice teacher training materials) focuses on designing criterion measures. Outlined are instructions to the coordinator, materials needed, and discussion questions. Also provided is the script…

The consumer's guide presents information on 109 projects which provide inservice special education training to regular education personnel. The prospectus section contains an analysis of the projects as a group and is organized according to the various structures on inservice teacher education. Reviewed are the general trends in training, and…