Despite the abundance of karst terrains and a universal lack of knowledge about the role they play in supplying freshwater resources, informal environmental education through guided show cave tours is poorly understood. This study evaluated techniques for educating cave guides on how to disseminate information about human-karst interactions to…

The purpose of this article is to propose the use of technology integration in elementary and middle level education courses, specifically, the use of WebQuests as vehicles for the infusion of content knowledge in preservice and in-service education courses. Observation in content area teaching methods courses found that teacher candidates often…

Demonstrates how a well planned program of inservice traing can help promote staff acceptance of a new educational idea. Deals only with inservice training for career education teachers. (Author)

This article reports the results of a 1974 survey of Florida community college administrators and faculty to determine their perceptions of the content and methods that should comprise a faculty inservice program. The authors recommend that faculty values, needs, and perceptions be central to the planning of all inservice experiences. (DC)

This model for an inservice workshop is based on an ongoing relationship between a college or university (acting as consultant) and an instructional staff. The workshop is built around an actual problem situation facing the staff, in this case, the task of providing remediation in conjunction with the Florida State Assessment Test. The design of…

This report focuses on the role of universities in teacher education centers in the state of Florida as well as on some of the issues and impacts related to that role. Research makes it clear that universities, almost entirely through colleges of education, have contributed substantially to the improvement of inservice education. Several factors…

This plan for the orientation and in-service training of community college trustees draws upon game-simulation and role-playing techniques. Small groups of no more than 12 new trustees rotate to consider topics of interest to which four experienced trustees and one professional technician have been assigned as moderators. (NHM)

This document discusses concepts of a teacher education center and states that teacher education center programs include the following: (a) career-long teacher education, (b) cooperation and collaboration, (c) commitment to shared power, (d) pooling of resources, (e) field-based preservice teacher education, and (f) broader focus on in-service…

Describes the development, implementation, and outcome of six in-service training programs that, according to supervisors, did a good job improving their knowledge of supervision in the rehabilitation counseling process, improving their skills as supervisors of rehabilitation counselors, and improving their level of helpfulness to those persons…

The temporary swapping of roles between teacher educators and in-service teachers leads to an increase of professional understanding and to improved teacher preparation programs. (LH)

THREE APPROACHES TO INSERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION WERE EXAMINED TO DETERMINE WHICH WAS MOST EFFECTIVE IN PREPARING TEACHERS TO USE A NEW CURRICULUM IN SCIENCE. THE CURRICULUM, "SCIENCE - A PROCESS APPROACH," HAD BEEN DEVELOPED THROUGH EFFORTS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE FOR SCIENCE INSTRUCTION IN GRADES K-3.…

This volume is the first in a series of publications designed to highlight some of the significant issues in human service planning for Florida over the next several years. Papers presented in the document include: (1) Career Planning for Human Service Manpower; (2) Assessing Manpower Need for Career Planning; (3) Manpower Utilization and Career…

In 1989, Florida educational leaders responded to information-age challenges by initiating a four-year project to identify the requirements for measurably improving vocational education. The project eventually identified 38 field-validated pedagogical/instructional goals and 161 related learner competencies in four topical areas: planning and…

Factors reported to be important in the design, implementation, and evaluation of professional development programs for department chairs are described. Attention is also directed to results from a goal-focused evaluation of the 6-year-old program to train new department heads in the nine state universities of Florida, a program that is being…

Described is a vocational education model designed to increase cooperative effort for the improvement of vocational personnel. The introductory section discusses the need for a systematic approach to vocational personnel development in Florida, presents the goals of the system, and briefly summarizes the salient features of each component of the…