Discusses managers as staff developers. Describes three managerial types: (1) high structure, low interest; (2) low structure, high interest; and (3) high structure, high interest. Presents guidelines for improving the staff development process. (CH)

Organizations must recognize that training and development managers can and should play a role in organizational problem-solving. They can be quite effective in directing the jury technique of analyzing and solving unexpected contingencies. (Author)

Discusses the importance of staff development as reflected in the literature and describes the role of the chief student affairs officer. Presents a systematic process for designing and implementing staff development programs and identifies some obstacles to successful efforts. (JAC)

This author discusses the need for employer-based career education, barriers to its widespread implementation, and how to overcome those barriers with changes in staffing and fund allocation. If career education is one of your top priorities, you'll find this indispensable reading. (Editor)

Describes the Teachers as Trainers staff development model which provides a comprehensive framework for faculty and staff training, and provides examples of its use in implementing educational technology into classroom instruction. Focuses on interrelated concepts designed to generate shared responsibility among faculty, staff, and administration…

One in a series of guidebooks, this manual was designed to help military child care center directors develop staff training plans. Two modules previously developed by the Military Child Care Project, the Child Guidance Series and the Child Environment Series, form the basis for suggestions. Section 1 of the manual provides detailed descriptions of…

This booklet describes a research program that developed eight Educational Leadership Appraisal (ELA) exercises specifically relevant to the roles of middle-management personnel in state education agencies (SEAs). ELA is a performance-based procedure for the observation, assessment, and training of leadership behavior in educational managers and…

Board members' role in technology implementation ranges from prompting development of technology plans to gathering community support for funding technology initiatives; they need substantial knowledge to enable them to ask the right questions, absorb new information, make good decisions, set appropriate policies, and lead confidently as…

This sourcebook, prepared to assist New Jersey urban school principals and administrators, presents research findings and describes exemplary programs related to the Urban Initiative, a school improvement project of the New Jersey Department of Education. The source book consists of three major sections. Section 1 reviews effective schools…

The author states that the classical authoritarian organizational model and managerial style are being replaced by participative and matrix forms of corporate activity. He focuses on setting tomorrow's norms in human resource development. (CT)

This book presents ways in which a program of individualized professional development can be designed to function within the existing public school administrative and contractual structure. Eight models for professional development are presented, with a ninth option combining approaches: instruction-centered staff development, focused-training…

An essential part of the school review process is self evaluation, which is fundamental to individual and organizational health and growth. Self evaluation is "coming clean" with ourselves--looking critically at what we are trying to do, how we are doing it, and to what extent it is being done. Self evaluation is important both as an…

The internal assessment process described in this report was initiated at the Wilmington/Stanton Campus of Delaware Technical and Community College in 1985 in preparation for a reaccreditation study and in response to a climate of rapid internal and external change. Following introductory comments on the campus, the purpose of the internal…

This report analyzes and documents the ways that existing educational service systems have successfully modified their roles in order to improve school-to-adult-life transition services for students with disabilities. The report is based on findings from development of a model cooperative transition services system, which revealed that new roles…

This study examined the process used to accomplish multicampus change and coordination at a large state university and compared the components of the change process to a model to determine if there was a need to modify either the university change process, the model, or both. Data on organizational change were collected through in-depth interviews…