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Houston, W. Robert, Ed. – 1986
Ten separate articles reviewing the training programs operated by 10 corporations and agencies are collected in this booklet. The articles describe the programs and assess their implications for teacher education. An introduction and a summary of the implications complete the document. The titles and authors of the articles are "Introduction:…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Industrial Training, Inservice Education, Motivation
Regional Laboratory for Educational Improvement of the Northeast & Islands, Andover, MA. – 1989
This packet contains 24 articles reprinted from books and journals dealing with effective staff development in small and rural schools. The articles are arranged in four sections. The first section reviews current research on staff development, discussing workable ideas, decision making principles, and general characteristics of effective staff…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Inservice Education
Summers, Sandra; And Others – Adults Learning (England), 1991
Includes "An LEA Example: The Changing Provision in the East Midlands" (Summers, Glazier); "Contribution of RACs (Regional Advisory Councils)" (Bailey); "The WEA" (Hull); "The Medau Society" (Weedon); "National Federation of Women's Institutes" (Hall); and "The Work of a Validating Body: The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Advisory Committees, Foreign Countries
Wepner, Shelley B., Ed.; And Others – 1989
This book is intended to help preservice and inservice reading specialists, supervisors, and administrators understand how to organize and supervise reading programs, pre-kindergarten through grade twelve. Each of the major parts of this book concerns some of the knowledge areas necessary for administering reading programs. Titles of the chapters…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education, Language Arts
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1979
This publication includes documents from Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries in the United States and Canada related to professional development activities that emphasize personal and professional growth of individuals rather than job skills. A concise summary of issues related to professional development in ARL libraries…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Inservice Education
Rhodes, Dent, Ed.; Hounsell, Dai, Ed. – 1980
Staff development in higher education is discussed in these papers in terms of its definitions, scope, and future activities. Most of the papers were originally prepared for the working party on staff development at the Fourth International Conference on Higher Education, University of Lancaster (August 29-September 1, 1978). The first three…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Administration, College Faculty, Data Collection
Michael, Robert J., Ed.; Upton, Graham, Ed. – View Finder, 1993
This monograph presents 14 brief papers on special education in other countries or comparisons between countries. Papers have the following titles and authors: "Legal Foundations of Special Education: A Comparison of the United States Public Law 94-142 and the China Compulsory Education Law" (Hong Bo Wang et al.); "International…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Disabilities, Educational Practices
Everson, Jane M., Ed.; And Others – 1987
This manual aids in developing cross-agency and cross-disciplinary inservice training in the areas of transition and supported employment for moderately and severely disabled individuals. Using a "train-the-trainer" approach, the manual outlines goals and objectives and presents strategies for designing inservice workshops and training…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Audiovisual Aids, Classroom Design, Cooperative Planning
Bell, William E.; And Others – 1980
This collection of papers examines the current issues in urban education as suggested by on-site studies of programs in sixteen different cities between 1977 and 1980. An overview of the problems in urban education and their causes is presented in the first paper. The second paper discusses program improvement strategies and several examples of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Career Education, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development
Chadwick, Alan, Ed.; Stannett, Annette, Ed. – 2000
This book contains 28 papers presenting perspectives from Europe on museums and adult learning. The papers, each of which is devoted to a specific country, examine topics such as the following: further education and inservice training; programs for unemployed individuals; lectures and open days; elderly visitors; immigrants; refugees; disabled…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Andragogy