After more than 20 years of a critical shortage in special education teachers, this mid-Atlantic state expedited program development for undergraduate-level teacher preparation programs. To meet the accelerated timeline, one program at a large public university used its graduate-level coursework as a model for the undergraduate level program.…

This document reports responses to a questionnaire investigating the needs of junior and senior high school mathematics teachers in Minnesota for continued inservice education programs. The questionnaire, administered to two hundred and seventy-eight teachers in both rural and urban public schools, posed seventy-two questions on the usefulness to…

Two methods of conducting a needs assessment for inservice teacher education programs were tested to determine: (1) the level of consistency of information between the two methods; and (2) the comparative validity of the two types of needs assessments. Eighty-eight teachers were divided into four groups. An informal assessment technique,…

A description is given of the assumptions, goals, and curriculum of a proposed interdisciplinary Master's degree program in elementary and secondary education at Kennesaw College (Marietta, Georgia). The program addresses several problems: (1) repetitiveness of undergraduate and graduate programs in education; (2) lack of competence in critical…

Brewton City (Alabama) school district administrators implemented the concept of an institution of higher education (IHE) person becoming involved in their schools' professional programs on a long-term basis. The IHE person became as familiar as possible with the school system and the personnel involved by talking with teachers, observing in…

This report provides training activities for teachers, counselors, and other elementary-secondary staff members who are involved in the delivery of career education to students. Training activities are based on the practical training experience of sixteen school districts and two universities which comprise the Wisconsin Career Education…

A school district in the southwestern United States has over the past several years built its infrastructure to support high-quality technology integration by its teachers. The district partnered with a nearby university's educational technology graduate program to develop a digital high school project. Teachers and advanced instructional-design…

A project was undertaken to assess the needs for skills and knowledge among Georgia's high technology teachers and to develop a model for meeting those needs. During the project, 52 teachers involved in teaching electronics, electromechanical, and mechanical courses at six pilot high technology schools were assessed. Included among the processes…

During the 1975-76 and 1976-77 academic years, a project was undertaken to design, implement, and evaluate an inservice course for home economics teachers in the state of New York. Eighty-two junior high and senior high teachers participated, representing both rural and urban areas. The objectives of the course dealt with improvement of specified…