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Howes, Carollee, Ed.; Pianta, Robert C., Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2011
Improving teacher quality in early education is a major part of ensuring young children's school readiness and closing the achievement gap. This is the book decision-makers and administrators need to begin developing coordinated, effective teacher quality systems--ones that not only get teachers ready for the classroom, but also promote continuous…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Teacher Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education, Incentives
Lopez, Martita A.; Silber, Sara L. – 1980
Many training programs have been set up for volunteers and paraprofessionals who work with the elderly. These programs, however, tend to emphasize basic helping skills. Those already trained in basic psychotherapeutic techniques require advanced training in skills related to psychotherapy and counseling with older adults. The effectiveness of such…
Descriptors: Counselors, Inservice Education, Mental Health, Older Adults
Turner, Susan – 1978
This training monograph was produced by the Manpower Development Higher Education System and provides manpower planners with the types of theoretical and practical information necessary to achieve planning effectiveness. The training is designed for delivery on three consecutive days. The material is most appropriate for the new planner or for the…
Descriptors: Administrators, Delivery Systems, Employment Services, Guides
Jung, Steven M. – 1978
This staff development module is part of one of three groups of career guidance modules developed, field-tested, and revised by a six-state consortium coordinated by the American Institutes for Research. This module is the tenth in a series on developing a comprehensive career guidance program at the high school level, designed to aid guidance…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Guidance, Counselors, Evaluation Criteria
Wolman, Jean – 1978
This staff development module is part of one of three groups of career guidance modules developed, field-tested, and revised by a six-state consortium coordinated by the American Institutes for Research. This module is the eleventh in a series on developing a comprehensive career guidance program at the high school level, designed to aid guidance…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Guidance, Counselors, Evaluation Methods
Western Washington Univ., Bellingham. – 1977
This booklet is part of a set of materials based on the belief that by getting teachers to agree on fundamental issues and values, a comprehensive program of inservice can be easily planned. This component of the set presents six generalizations about effective inservice programs and illustrates each with several different, but satisfactory,…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Guidelines, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Development
Weisgerber, Robert – 1977
One of a series of seven modules developed to improve the knowledge and skills of vocational educators who are or will become involved in the instruction of handicapped students in regular (mainstream) classes, this module is intended as a practical tool useful for instructing one or more handicapped students, along with nonhandicapped students,…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Planning
Alvir, Howard P. – 1975
This catalog, intended for inservice program directors, describes a large number of activities for evaluating the impact of teacher inservice workshops on learner gains. The first description explains how to provide an activity-by-activity evaluation measure that identifies objectives, time period, resources, personnel, and success of outcome. The…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Affective Behavior, Evaluation Methods, Inservice Teacher Education
Levinson, Cynthia Y. – 1984
Many administrators are meeting specific instructional needs of their students without always or solely relying on classroom teachers by utilizing distance education, i.e., instruction that takes place while the learner is physically distant from the instructor and/or the materials. Distance education is particularly appropriate in rural and small…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education, Educational Radio, Inservice Teacher Education
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Tallmadge, G. Kasten; Wood, Christine T. – 1976
This guidebook concentrates primarily on describing the impact-assessment component of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I evaluation and reporting system for users of the system. Three general evaluation models are presented, along with implementation information for each. The first model, a norm-referenced design, may be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Control Groups