This article summarizes current research on effective professional development and offers a checklist for school leaders to use when designing learning opportunities for teachers. Effective professional development engages teachers in learning opportunities that are supportive, job-embedded, instructionally-focused, collaborative, and ongoing.…

The real potential of ICT is the way it changes learners to become autonomous in their learning process. E-learning also plays a crucial role in today's life and in modern education. Its importance lies in the fact that people are finding that e-learning can make a remarkable change in teaching/ or learning: to how quickly they master a skill; how…

The Michigan-Ohio Regional Educational Laboratory uses one of its own research projects as a model to outline recommended procedures in the planning of research efforts. The model used is an inservice teacher education program where three distinct phases operate in an overlapping manner as the program progresses. In the first phase, the problem is…

Identifies five factors that contributed to the success of a two-week composition inservice teacher education program. (HOD)

The document is the first of three volumes (Volume 3 is a film) dealing with the demonstration of dissemination practices on special class instruction for the mentally handicapped utilizing master teachers as inservice educators. Volume I is a report on functions and guidelines for replication. Inherent in the volume is a detailed discussion on…

The Experiences and research data in this volume result from the authors' involvement in Corpsmember Training Institutes (CMTIs) and Pilot Trainer Workshops (PTWs) established to train teacher interns beginning their Teacher Corps internship. Six articles are presented on: administration of short-term instructional programs, workshop design,…

Written as a guide for conducting a successful second institute, this manual included the objectives which should be transmitted to the teachers of the second institute and suggested methods for planning and conducting the institute and in-service training centers. In order to familiarize teachers with the Southwestern Cooperative Educational…

This paper presents a proposed statement of qualifications and guidelines for the preparation and certification of teachers of English to speakers of other languages in the United States. It is designed to assist teacher certification agencies and educational institutions in the establishment of certification standards and in the design and…

A long-range program of staff development must be an integral part of any process of program development and maintenance. (Author/PHR)

This article is designed to assist planners of inservice programs to broaden the range of courses and other types of activities offered within their system of training. Five basic dimensions of an inservice course must be considered: time, people, form, objectives, and sponsor. These dimensions are expanded into a comprehensive working checklist…

One of eight sections of a handbook for use by vocational teacher educators in improving vocational teacher education linkage with business, industry, and labor, this first section focuses on use of staff development programs as a means to increasing faculty interaction with the private sector. Although the guidelines are intended for use by…

This article for early childhood administrators specifies guidelines and issues to be considered in the implementation of a comprehensive child sexual abuse prevention program. It also offers some ideas for what should be done if an allegation of sexual abuse is made against a staff member of a child care facility. Discussion focuses on six…

Written for administrators, learning disabilities (LD) teachers, psychologists, and parents, the guide consists of a plan for providing programs and services for LD children (K-12). LD children are assigned to resource rooms for a portion of each school day with the goal of remediation and return to the educational mainstream. Outlined are five…

A primary grades specialist implemented a 10-week practicum intervention designed to increase third graders' social skills by training their teachers in cooperative learning techniques and providing cooperatively structured lessons. Eight skills were addressed; these included the skills of accepting peers' ideas for group activities, completing…

The plan provides guidelines to Colorado citizens for the implementation of four environmental education programs. The major emphasis of the plan is to stimulate and strengthen environmental education throughout Colorado by increasing communication, cooperation, and coordination among individuals and organizations. The following citizen-based…