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San Jose, Christine – 1978
The primary functions of a teachers' center and the qualities to look for in individuals who will form the core staff are delineated. Three main tasks for a teacher center are: improving instruction in the classroom; bringing people together to effect the improvement; and coping with the complexities of change in people and institutions that the…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Consultants, Individual Characteristics, Needs Assessment
Download full textTerry, Gwenith L.; Eade, Gordon E. – 1976
A consortium for the purpose of collaboratively designing and facilitating the implementation of inservice education for teachers of young children and their supporting staff was instituted in the Florida Panhandle. Participating in this group collaboration were three teacher centers, three universities, two individual school districts, and the…
Descriptors: Consortia, Early Childhood Education, Educational Finance, Inservice Teacher Education
Hering, William M.; And Others – 1983
Fourteen research studies were conducted on exemplary practices in experienced teachers' centers, focusing upon specific interests or concerns of those operating or otherwise supporting the centers. Research was funded through small awards which would allow teacher center practitioners to collaborate with researchers to develop knowledge about…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Governance
Devaney, Kathleen, Ed. – 1979
As a collection of articles this book is intended for use as a guide for planning and building teacher centers. The beginning articles tell how a combination of convictions, experience, high energy, and happenstance formed the first American teacher centers. The next several articles focus on practical matters such as staffing, needs assessment,…
Descriptors: Facility Requirements, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutional Cooperation, Needs Assessment
Washington West School District, VT. – 1977
This guide for inservice teacher education is designed for use by teacher groups in planning inservice. Short substantive narratives are followed by practical exercises to help teachers plans and develop inservice education, find resources, use outside assistance, and understand the potential functions of inservice education. The model presented…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Boards of Education, Educational Finance, Inservice Teacher Education
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 1981
This report outlines the roles and responsibilities, pertaining to the improvement amd coordination of statewide teacher inservice, of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) in the state of Washington. After a field-based research study was conducted, a system was devised by which the SPI can improve coordination of staff development…
Descriptors: Coordination, Inservice Teacher Education, Linking Agents, Needs Assessment
