This article reports the results of a survey to determine the topics that members of the American Sociological Association (ASA) most wanted to see included in the organization's Teaching Services Workshop Program. The 80-item survey, filled out on a computer at the 1985 and 1986 ASA convention, was completed by 246 persons. (JDH)

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 guide for conducting classes via the Georgia Hospital Association's teleconferencing network provides a brief description of the interactive TELNET classroom, including equipment and student participation capabilities; a list of media used in TELNET teaching; and guidelines for teleconference teaching. Designed to assist in adapting teaching…

This sourcebook contains a collection of articles on educational topics and is designed to be used as a resource for inservice teacher programs at the secondary level. The first section is devoted to curriculum theory and contains writings on the theoretical underpinnings and relevant background for practical work with students. Inservice is the…

Recognizing the paraprofessional as a valued asset for the accomplishment of routine library services and techniques while freeing the professional librarian for those duties truly requiring a professional education, this paper presents academic library administrators with an inservice training handbook to prepare and improve the skills of library…

Describes a course on the Vietnam War presented by the author to 19 secondary school teachers. The course sought to increase competency in teaching about the war by using readings, lectures, and guest speakers. Concludes that the course was a success because participants encouraged others in their departments to include the topic in their…

Discusses the necessary first steps in preparing in-service business communication programs. (RL)

This document presents one module in a set of training resources for trainers to use with parents and/or professionals serving children with disabilities; focus is on training for professionals working with families. The modules stress content and activities that build skills and offer resources to promote parent-professional collaboration. Each…

An inservice program designed to assist teachers to develop instructional strategies for high school students with poor cognitive skills is described in this paper. The discussion focuses on the employment of a "prima-facie analysis technique" designed to give the teacher and student immediate feedback about the student's reading behavior, to…

The report evaluates and describes a series of 18 regional inservice training workshops designed for school psychologists working with visually impaired students. The project's background is described in terms of the need for school psychologists to be trained to work with the specific problems manifested by visually impaired public school…

This instructional module on sex stereotyping and its effect on mathematics education is composed of four transparency masters, two handouts, and a bibliography and is designed to accompany a 25-minute tape. The four transparencies are stereotyping sample mathematics problems, sex differences in mathematical skills, and mathematics courses and job…

Shows that organizing and conducting an off-campus journalism class for professionals takes additional planning, much more time, and a somewhat different approach than the usual on-campus procedures. Reports on the books read during the course. (RL)

This guide for the University of Illinois Arithmetic Project was designed for use by the leader of a locally conducted in-service course for teachers of elementary school mathematics. It provides extensive discussion notes and detailed guides for correcting written lessons. The guides also contain suggestions on: finding personnel to conduct the…

Part 10 of a series of 13 instructor's manuals for the competency based training of curriculum consultants for exceptional children focuses on the development of support systems. Three competencies are considered: (1) that a curriculum consultant should be capable of developing a comprehensive and systematic inservice training program, (2) that a…

The major focus of this document is to report the current status of the Iowa-ASSIST program, a statewide education improvement model aimed at helping students, teachers, administrators, and citizens to improve science teaching and science offerings in their communities and schools. Described are procedures for establishing 15 regional service…