Focuses on some important aspects of managing training activities, such as arranging program logistics, obtaining/hiring program resource people, preparing budgets and plans, training and supervising personnel and managing leadership. (CSS)

Within legislative, practice, and professional issues in school psychology, examples of action plans for hypothetical events are presented. These were produced by groups of conference participants to stimulate development of detailed plans for local, state and national use by school psychologists. Action plan resources and implementation and…

Skillful instructors in combination with well-designed and appropriate training programs are critical links in improving employee performance and increasing organizational productivity. Training directors use a variety of strategies to prepare competent, confident, and resourceful instructors. The author presents the essential factors to be…

Inservice programs for teachers and other educational personnel can increase the effectiveness of urban schools by upgrading the quality of school programs for children. Although social forces are partly responsible for the problems confronting urban schools, it is necessary to use existing knowledge to improve education under present conditions.…

Discusses questions concerning training students in techniques of academic work and use of the English language in this context. These questions, currently researched at the English Language Center of King Abdulaziz University, focus on the notion of task as a minimal pedagogic unit, and on task-objective coordination criteria. Societe Nouvelle…

A training specialist who moved from higher education to the corporate world relates some of his experiences, including how he developed a management training system. Problems educators face in the corporate environment are discussed, as are suggestions about how teacher educators can prepare people for the business world. (Author/PP)

The development since 1940 of support for nationally funded faculty development programs in the United Kingdom is considered, along with funding problems, program development and fragmentation, institutional attitudes and the implications for planning in the Australian context. (MSE)

If early childhood systems are to be effective at the population level then they must be able to provide family-centered care to all the racial, ethnic and cultural groups that they serve. Despite major policy driven and technological advances in healthcare, health disparities across different races and ethnicities persist. For example, the infant…