The Burwood Education Centre (Victoria, Australia) has many unique features. The center supports and initiates inservice education programs for teachers, parents, and others interested in education. It also initiates and manages a range of self-funded community education programs and provides a wide range of campus facilities for schools and…

These four annual reports detail Indiana's efforts to enhance computer literacy for teachers and assist in computer instruction in the schools. The consortium was given the responsibility by 1983 legislation to establish regional clearinghouses for computer instruction information, coordinate teacher training in computer instruction skills, and…

The Center for Productive School and Classroom Discipline at Cleveland State University was created to bring together the disparate and disorganized theories of classroom management and to provide assistence to teachers with persistent classroom control problems by developing teacher competencies. The Center has four objectives: (1) to provide…

An education service center providing inservice programs to constituent school districts acted upon a recommendation that an independent evaluation component be added to their center for the purpose of improving their programs. This report of the first-year experience with the evaluation component is divided into four sections. The first section…

The report is a third party audit/evaluation of a research and development project to provide curriculum and staff development for the implementation of a high school career development program in two career clusters at the Washington, D.C., Lemuel A. Penn Career Development Center. A project overview is presented; major responsibilities of the…

Reviews the purpose, programs, and strengths of the Naturalist Center at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. Stresses the value of hands-on activities. Surveys some of the programs of the center including Unknowns and Adaptations and teacher workshops. (CW)

The Project carries on a diagnostic/prescriptive program utilizing an individual approach. Early educational intervention elements receive the highest priority in the PACE program. (Author/CB)

The Program Development Center was formed to establish collaborative relationship between Teachers' College Physical Education Program (Columbia University, New York) and physical education staff of several school districts. To improve school physical education programs, several projects were undertaken, including: (1) a high school elective…

Thirteen teacher centers in North Carolina are listed and described in terms of: (1) location; (2) operating hours; (3) program design, objectives, and services; (4) resources; (5) staff; (6) setting; (7) target audience; (8) fees; (9) program origin; (10) affiliation; (11) administrative policies; and (12) publications and information services.…

Through cooperation with Valparaiso University, schools in northwest Indiana provided specialized personnel to assist the disabled reader through diagnosis and prescriptive recommendations and to assist teachers with the improvement of reading instruction. The project included the following programs: (1) the Northwest Indiana Elementary and…

This study describes the Nuffield Mathematics Teaching Project with respect to its current use in eleven British schools and eight of the Project's teachers' centres. Data were collected by interviews with Nuffield Project staff members, personal observations of schools and centres, examination of materials published by the Project, and a review…

The Center for Open Education sends consultants to schools to work on-site with teachers; all personnel of the school are involved in planning inservice programs based on school needs; and through affiliation with the University of Connecticut, credit courses are available to participating teachers. (JD)

This booklet contains forms, strategies, and philosophies that have been successfully used at the TRIAD Teacher Center (West Lafayette, Indiana). TRIAD provides resources and services for 1600 elementary and secondary teachers and administrators in three counties. The center is staffed by three professional educators and is governed by a policy…

The Regular Education Inservice Program (REIT) at Bowling Green State University (Ohio) assists instructional resource centers (IRC's) and local educational agencies (LEA's) in developing and implementing inservice non-degree programs which respond to the mandates of Public Law 94-142. The target population is regular education personnel working…

An analysis of staff development practices in Texas during the year 1975-76 is provided, and four principles of effective inservice education (planning, situational design, content, and support) are outlined. The summary of findings is based on data from three unpublished dissertations, which had compiled data gathered via questionnaire from…