Workshops sponsored by the Ohio Modern Language Teachers' Association (OMLTA) are described and information about organizing OMLTA workshops is provided. Specifically, guidelines are given on: policies, the local workshop director's responsibilities, selecting consultants, site selection, luncheon arrangements, and publicity. The workshops by…

This article proposes a) a rationale for the development of teachers' centers, b) a model teacher center, and c) a model for the position of facilitator for staff development at the center. The rationale focuses on the voluntary exchange of teachers' ideas concerning their professional and personal lives. The model teacher center, based on the Bay…

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,…

As part of the work from the Content Area Reading Project (CARP), which focuses on inservice teacher education in content area reading, this paper examines eight premises for the training of administrators in the clinical supervision of content area teachers. These premises are as follows: (1) problems in content classrooms can be resolved if…

Part of a 4-volume set constituting a model to assist all school districts in Region 17 (Texas) in infusing comprehensive career oriented education into their existing instructional programs by 1980, this teacher guide contains materials for the first part of a 3-phase program designed to move the participant through a series of informational…

One of two workshop modules developed to be used in training vocational teacher education personnel how to adapt, utilize, and implement performance-based teacher education (PBTE) curricula materials, this module (X-102) was specifically designed for the large number of teacher educators and other leaders who participated in the twenty-four…

One of two workshop modules developed to be used in training vocational teacher education personnel how to adapt, utilize, and implement performance-based teacher education (PBTE) curricula materials, this module (X-101) was specifically designed for the leadership teams who attended the two national workshops conducted as a part of the National…

The purpose of the National Institute for Performance-Based Teacher Education (PBTE) was to provide for improving the quality of vocational teacher preparation by developing the skill of selected teacher educators, staff development leaders, and other decision makers to adapt, utilize, and implement PBTE concepts and curricular materials.…

Administrative and personnel problems created through organization of multi-teacher departments in vocational agriculture was the major topic considered by 16 teachers in a June 1967 workshop. The primary purpose of the workshop was to provide for more efficient and effective agricultural programs through better teacher understandings of multiple…

A project was conducted to provide inservice training for 100 teachers of specially designed vocational programs and to determine the best practices for program management and standards. Included among the major accomplishments of the project were the following: a review of literature on specially designed vocational programs and their management,…

Activities of and outcomes resulting from the State Project to Implement Career Education (SPICE) in New York City schools for the first year and a half are reported in this summative evaluation. Findings (much of which are statistical data) discussed deal almost exclusively with the elementary-junior high program, one of two autonomous programs…