Describes the design and compilation of a directory of inservice programs on curriculum to schools in 13 districts in northeastern Indiana. (Author/WD)

Presents ideas and strategies used by the Northwest Staff Development Center to attract and involve teachers and administrators in center activities. (Author)

Elementary school teachers feel inadequately prepared to teach science and spend little class time on science instruction. Until undergraduate science preparation improves, inservice training must take up the slack. An inservice program developed by the Science Education Center at the University of Texas' College of Education shows positive…

Offers practical suggestions for teacher involvement in the planning of staff development programs. Teachers, as members of the staff development committee, should participate in identifying and ranking needs and designing a plan of action. (Author/WD)

Compares many teacher inservice programs to the artificial insemination of cows--decisions are made without teacher participation, teachers do not get to join in the act, and no one has much fun. Suggests that teachers be allowed to set their own goals and control their own learning. (Author/WD)

Examines the influences forcing change in inservice teacher education in Europe, examines some innovations being made, and looks at the forms inservice education may take in the future. (IRT)

Describes the Education for Aesthetic Awareness project in greater Cleveland that builds confidence and "aesthetic literacy" among classroom teachers and art specialists. (IRT)

Summarizes the findings and recommendations of a survey of teacher attitudes about inservice education. (IRT)

Explores myths about British teacher centers. (IRT)

Examines pressures, internal and external to education, that have created changes in European teacher education. The internal changes include the changing status of teachers, new roles for teachers, and a restructuring of the profession. (IRT)

The data show that South Dakota teachers believe that past inservice education has generally been ineffective, have definite ideas about how inservice education should be redesigned, are willing to participate in planning and designing future inservice activities, and support inservice education as a way of improving their instructional skills.…

A survey of 102 teachers in grades K-12 concerning what they find valuable in inservice programs revealed that teachers felt they benefitted most from self-chosen, informal, participatory activities. The findings indicate that effective inservice programs should involve teachers in all stages and should foster collegial sharing of ideas.…

Two surveys (15 months apart) of K-12 teachers in one Missouri district used the Teacher Skill/Interest Questionnaire to determine which topics teachers preferred to have covered in inservice training. General inservice training priorities remained constant over the 15-month period, but individual teachers' perceived needs showed considerable…

Describes a program in which native English-speaking students were immersed in a Spanish-only environment for a week. The program was so successful that teachers asked for, and got, their own program. (IRT)