To address chronically low primary school completion rates and the disconnect between learners' skills at the end of primary school and the skills learners need to thrive in secondary school identified in many low- and middle-income countries, more investment is needed to improve the quality of teaching and learning in upper primary grades.…

Developed by Bob Moon, this Blueprint and Toolkit provides the guidance and supporting resources for a programme of around 12-15 weeks' duration and includes a detailed framework that can be adapted to the context of a particular country, region, district or school. It targets institutions wishing to implement school-based teacher development…

This book address a major gap in the current mentoring programs at the secondary level. Staff development resources are often concentrated on helping new teachers be successful in their early school experience. Yes, a good idea, but a limited vision. Meanwhile many veteran teachers go without the mentoring assistance they need to be effective…

Wouldn't it be great if all your teachers were as good as your best? Teaching is often an isolated profession in which teachers work behind closed doors, doing their own thing. Peer coaching is a collaborative, ongoing process that can increase the effectiveness of all your teachers. This "Focus On" is designed to lead a faculty into the…

Improving teacher quality in early education is a major part of ensuring young children's school readiness and closing the achievement gap. This is the book decision-makers and administrators need to begin developing coordinated, effective teacher quality systems--ones that not only get teachers ready for the classroom, but also promote continuous…

This document, one of a series on planning an inservice teacher education program, provides a conceptual base for understanding and developing such programs. The document is divided into four sections. Section one suggests that there are six assumptions, constraints, and mandates that must be addressed at the local level in order to plan a…

A perceived need for teacher inservice workshops aimed at developing the career education effort led to the holding of a Workshop on Workshops in Seattle, Washington, which produced this guide to the preparation and running of inservice workshops to acquaint teachers with career education concepts and with the integration of these concepts into…

This manual is designed to assist teachers in performing their tasks more effectively. Learning goals and activities are identified for students to accomplish in the following areas: (a) communication, (b) reading, (c) creative writing, (d) social studies, and (e) mathematics. Learning centers and free-choice interest centers are defined. Sample…

This volume, from a set of documents on planning for inservice teacher education, provides an overview of the process and a set of tasks in program planning. The primary function of the tasks is to assist staff in the articulation of fundamental principles and guidelines for site-specific inservice programs. The initial step is the establishment…

This booklet is part of a set of materials based on the belief that by getting teachers to agree on fundamental issues and values, a comprehensive program of inservice can be easily planned. This component of the set presents six generalizations about effective inservice programs and illustrates each with several different, but satisfactory,…

The handbook provides suggestions and guidelines to assist local education agency personnel in planning and implementing inservice education programs for the teacher of the gifted and talented. Information is presented on the following topics: the need for inservice education; twelve guiding principles for inservice education (including use of a…

Designed for individualized study or inservice situations, the module is intended for training professional educators or paraprofessionals, under the supervision of professionals, in the proper administration of screening instruments. Emphasis is placed on the ability to provide valid data to diagnosticians. The work booklet covers the following…

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…

The document discusses teacher-centered inservice teacher education. It describes how local associations of teachers can get together to insure that inservice education will reflect their needs, answer their questions, and help with their specific problems. An outline is presented for a model conference to plan such a program. (CD)

Three evaluation packets which can serve as guidelines for evaluation models are illustrated in this document. These packages were designed originally for occupational educators, but editing can make these packets and evaluation forms applicable to any area in which secondary and post-secondary teachers attend an inservice workshop or training…