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Ney, Emilie A.; Gallardo-Cooper, Maria Isabel; Iglesias, Maria Inma – Communique, 2019
In a practice-based field such as school psychology, university trainers have the potential to both directly and indirectly impact the lives of many people, including their colleagues, their graduate students, and the children and families with whom their graduates will work. The research that they conduct and the students that they train will…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Counselor Training, Trainers, College School Cooperation
Williams, Marian E.; Mulrooney, Kathleen; Rediker, Ashley; Reno-Smith, Debbie; Hause, Noelle – ZERO TO THREE, 2021
ZERO TO THREE and Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) collaborated and contracted to provide official DC:0-5[TM] clinical training and foundational infant and early childhood mental health training to clinicians from Los Angeles (LA) County, California, over the course of 3 years. This article describes this unique, multiyear…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Professional Development, Infants, Toddlers
Kay, D. William; O'Brien, Chad; Day, Russell – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2019
This short paper outlines the design and development of a multi-phase, cross-institution Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) program that was conceived by educational developers from five higher educational institutions in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The initiative is grounded in the belief that implementing the ISW program in the Halifax Regional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workshops, Communities of Practice, Teaching Skills
Low, Ee-Ling; Lee, Sing-Kong – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2012
In recent years, education systems around the world have been keeping a keen eye on rankings of student achievement as measured by internationally benchmarked tests. This has led to considerable attention being paid to teasing out success factors that may account for countries that have emerged top of the ranks or those that have shown the most…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expertise, Teacher Education, Academic Achievement
Nadler, Leonard – Training and Development Journal, 1980
Describes a three-dimensional model for human resource development (HRD) professionals. The dimensions are HRD roles (learning specialist, administrator, consultant), practitioner categories (professionally identified, organizationally identified, collateral), and competency levels (basic, middle, advanced). Discusses the model's usefulness for…
Descriptors: Competence, Consultants, Models, Professional Development

Killion, Joellen P. – Journal of Staff Development, 1988
The professional development of trainers requires an understanding of the developmental stages of adults. As with other adults, trainers may progress through stages of development. Staff developers must align the type of support given with the current stage of the trainer's development and move the learner to the next stage. (JD)
Descriptors: Adult Development, Developmental Stages, Inservice Teacher Education, Professional Development
Spitzer, Dean R. – Performance and Instruction, 1981
Argues that although the training field is evolving rapidly, pre-professional education and continuing professional development are not adequately meeting the needs of the profession. Twelve areas of concern are discussed, and five basic elements to be incorporated in curriculum changes are offered. (Author/MER)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Professional Continuing Education, Professional Development, Professional Education

Pun, Aaron – Journal of European Industrial Training, 1990
A postgraduate diploma course for trainers offered by the University of East Asia is a learner-centered process in which participants select their own goals and evaluate their own learning experience. Although participants saw the value of an action learning approach, their learning preference was basically teacher centered and the process met…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Cognitive Style, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries

Forman, David C. – Journal of Interactive Instruction Development, 1999
Focuses on the growth of training industry in the United States and the increase of its influence. Discusses organizations' expenditures on training; training industry associations; postsecondary programs; credibility of the training profession; intellectual leadership; shortage of skilled employees; and the overall impact of training today. (AEF)
Descriptors: Business, Continuing Education, Lifelong Learning, Professional Development

Foreman, David C. – Journal of Interactive Instruction Development, 1999
This second of a two-part series on the training industry focuses on the internal perspectives of the training and learning process itself. Discusses the importance of returning to the core values of the training profession, in order to assure that the training/learning system works at full capacity. A table outlines the core principles,…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Educational Principles, Lifelong Learning, Professional Development
Bailey, Gerald D.; Hortin, John – Performance and Instruction, 1982
Describes a tool for trainer self-development called "mental rehearsal." The process uses mental images (visualization) to practice trainer behavior prior to the actual training session. Trainers use mental rehearsal for: (1) physical relaxation, (2) positive thinking, (3) mental and physical readiness, (4) verbal and nonverbal instructional…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Drills (Practice), Positive Reinforcement, Postsecondary Education
Shareef, Intisar; Gonzalez-Mena, Janet – Child Care Information Exchange, 1997
Describes infant-toddler training-of-trainers workshop in which trainers respond to trainee resistance through role-plays illustrating respectful and disrespectful ways of training and through discussions focusing on accepting and acknowledging the feelings of trainees and trainers. Asserts that forming diverse training teams, valuing opposing…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Education, Professional Development, Resistance (Psychology)
Summers, Judith; And Others – Adults Learning (England), 1991
Includes "Part-time Teachers of Adults: Some Professional Issues" (Summers); "The Competence Approach" (Sims); and "Training the Trainers" (Daines, Graham). (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Competence, Foreign Countries
TIU Adult Education and Job Training Center, Lewistown, PA. – 1998
A project designed an operational system and develop a skilled pool of trainers, in conjunction with Pennsylvania's Regional Professional Development Centers (PDCs), to deliver high-quality, uniform training modules in needed content areas to adult basic and literacy education (ABLE) staff throughout Pennsylvania. Procedures for identifying,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
Hite, Roger W. – 1982
Athletic trainers, whether or not they are university-based, should link themselves and their programs to the traditional medical community. A harmful communication gap now exists between athletic trainers and other medical professionals as a result of differences in value systems, clientele, and professional image. Trainers should market…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Athletes, Futures (of Society), Health Needs
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