Stressing that instructional behaviors, programs, and materials developed for inservice education must be systematic, stimulating, psychologically sound, and organized, this document provides a guide to the development of inservice instructional packages. It includes extensive criteria for evaluating inservice instructional packages under the…

This report describes the inservice component of a project designed to enable 16 secondary English teachers to increase their understandings and develop their competencies in teaching disadvantaged, low achieving students. Included are descriptions of the resource materials used, curriculums which were studied, a sample unit which was developed, a…

The videotape courses available through the Agency for Instructional Television (AIT) are listed. Courses fall into three broad categories: primary through senior high, post-secondary, and teacher inservice. Within each category, individual courses, their materials, and their intended audiences are described. Courses are indexed by relevant grade…

This publication presents a suggested inservice training program for safety in the laboratory for secondary school science teachers. It consists of three parts. Part one discusses administrative guidelines. Part two consists of 14 lesson plans for lectures in the training course for teachers. Each of these lesson plans consists of an overview,…

The purpose of the inservice education program is to help local inservice coordinators plan and conduct effective inservice programs for teachers and other instructional staff who will be using curriculum materials (teacher's guides) developed at the center for vocational education. The intent of the program is to provide an orientation to career…

This paper describes the types of attitudes and behaviors that might be destructive to an individual's sense of self-worth, and suggests that counselors in long-term care settings face the challenge of changing these. One strategy for counteracting potential dehumanization, offering in-service training to all levels of staff and administrators, is…

This manual addresses the problems involved in selection and training of teachers for using the Comprehensive School Mathematics Program (CSMP), an experimental curriculum which emphasizes content well beyond the scope of the standard curriculum. A description of the proposed teacher training model is provided, and implementation specifications…

The materials in the self-instructional version of the teacher's guide installation inservice program were developed for local educational staff who will be using the career education teacher's guides developed at the Center for Vocational Education. The document provides an individualized alternative for teachers in the absence of a…

Personal growth and professional growth are the main areas of concern dealt with in this workbook. Developed from teacher identified "components of growth," the text is organized around the concepts of awareness/reflection, trust, risk, conflict, working plans, and opportunities for growth. The document is designed to encourage reflection of…

This booklet asserts that teacher retraining is directly linked to improving the teaching of reading and to basic education in general. It states that a successful in-service training program should have focus and vitality and should integrate a variety of training devices to meet the individual needs of the teachers. An effective program must…

This "Operations Notebook" is written especially for administrators interested in and concerned about staff development efforts. The publication attempts to answer such questions as: What is staff development? Who should have it? Where is help available? What pitfalls should be avoided? In answering these questions the actions of Federal…

The document is the first of a subset of six instructional packages focusing on teacher orientation to career education. Utilizing a group approach, the module presents both historical and current perspectives on factors influencing the development of career education. Four lessons comprise the module concerning the topics of: (1) preparing…

The document is the second of a subset of six instructional packages focusing on teacher orientation to career education. The module is designed to assist an administrator in the implementation of a career education program. Two lessons present two approaches for the school administrator. One provides information relative to the nature and…

Fourteen teacher-training modules focus on strategies which concern humanizing and individualizing learning in elementary education programs. Designed for inservice teacher training by a principal or curriculum specialist, these modules provide alternative teaching techniques for teachers interested in curriculum innovation. Topics of the 14…

This California Evaluation Improvement Project (EIP) Program Evaluation workbook has two purposes. It can be used as a learning and instructional aid while one masters the procedures, techniques, and methods of program evaluation. Used this way, it helps the practitioner summarize and put into practice the subject matter presented in the EIP…