A school study council is a voluntary organization of educational institutions including universities and school districts that identifies in-service needs and plans activities to meet those needs. (MM)

Competency-based in-service education programs are put forth as an effective way to provide systematic training for special education teachers. (MM)

The author provided a list of pertinent advice gleaned from administrators' comments and personal observations of inservice programs as guidelines for administrators who wished to follow the established concept of teacher inservice education. (Author/RK)

Outlines a 4-step procedure for inservice training of child care workers. The described supervisory procedure is designed to serve as a guide for the training supervisor to use in the selection, assessment, modification, and maintenance of trainee behavior. (SB)

Provides step-by-step directions for planning and conducting an inhouse course in business and technical writing at an engineering or technical firm. (RL)

This bibliography is the result of a literature review directed exclusively at the issue of inservice education, or staff development, for experienced teachers, administrators, and other professional educators. The purpose was to examine, within the time frame of 1977 through 1983, recently completed studies to identify predominant research…

Reviews approaches and specialties of six big-name educational consultants: Lee Canter, Vic Cottrell, Fenwick English, Ivan Fitzwater, Madeline Hunter, and Marian Leibowitz. Discusses reasons for hiring consultants (including delivery of unpleasant messages) and cautions districts to seek local talent, match consultants and tasks, and support…

Contends that the typical substitute teacher program retains antiquated stop-gap measures of little value to a school. Offers suggestions for recruitment tactics, inservice training, and evaluation. (Author/WD)

This article describes several trans-disciplinary summer institute designs and the general content of two teacher inservice education courses which have been established through the Environmental Studies Institute (ESI) of Syracuse University. Five activities for use in inservice workshops are identified and described. (BT)

Prepared for outreach projects of the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program, the manual presents information on developing an efficient yet thorough training workshop to teach others to replicate a program. Twelve steps are described: (1) identifying model components (grouping according to chronology, personnel involved, etc.); (2)…

The Capital Area School Development Association (CASDA) of New York state offers a variety of programs including programs for inservice training of noninstructional school personnel. (MD)

An overview is given of the involvement of IBM in secondary and college education. Several grant programs, inservice training programs, and faculty loan programs are noted. (MNS)

Reports the results of a study examining the goal-setting process within the School Improvement Model, which evaluates relations between school goals and personal goals and between school goals and inservice interests. (MD)

The school principal has a key role in working with teachers to enhance the school as a learning community. Chapter 1 discusses the standards that emanate from such organizations as the National Staff Development Council (NSDC) and National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and that serve as a basis for designing staff…

The Case Method of Instruction (CMI) is presented as one alternative method of training early interventionists. The paper discusses the basic principles of CMI, its suitability to preservice and inservice early intervention personnel preparation, variations in extent of use and format, and specific instructional strategies for conducting case…