Seeing the need to change parts of one's teaching project may be the starting point for scholars to seek inspiration and guidance from educational psychologists for innovation in their teaching. In this report, the authors address the question of how educational psychologists can assist lecturers in higher education with the implementation of…

Describes programs that have arisen since the Pennsylvania state board authorized local school districts and intermediate units to organize inservice programs that can provide the coursework necessary for permanent certification and for Master's Equivalency Certificates. (Author/IRT)

Discusses the potential benefits to school districts of financing college-credit inservice training for the district's teachers. Describes the experience of an Arkansas school district with such a program during the period 1973-75. (JG)

Describes an in-service writing project designed to teach writing across the curriculum to administrators of the Window Rock Public Schools. Lists the benefits the project will have toward the implementation of writing across the curriculum. Describes the collaborative efforts of those teaching in the project. (PRA)

Five model projects for providing continuing education opportunities to teacher educators in special education are presented. Background for the development of Project RETOOL includes a 10 step outline of the process. Implementation was designed in three phases: needs assessment of current special education teacher educators, development of…

This document reviews the Senior Medical Consultant Program; a program designed to utilize recently or near-retired medical school faculty members in a continuing medical education program. Evaluation of the program by physician teachers, physicians attending the sessions, both attending staff and house staff, and by physicians scheduling the…

Professional Growth Committee at Northern Illinois University established programs of inservice training for professional and clerical staff in the division of student affairs. Changes in the division effected by this committee were improved morale, new programs with developmental impact on students, and a general advancement of professionalism in…

The paper describes a 2-year college program designed to meet the need for front-line workers, who have been trained within the developmental model, to work with people exhibiting a broad variety of handicaps. The program is explained to adhere to a philosophy of normalization/integration for the handicapped. The orientation is noted to be…

This brochure describes the novel professional staff development model used by the Division of Student Affairs (DSA) at Eastern Michigan University. The inservice training model revolved around the design and implementation of a Mini-University format for the 76 staff professionals and six graduate assistants within the DSA. Basically, the…

The Extern Program is designed to provide inservice education through didactic, experiential learning activities implemented on a one weekend per month schedule for nine months. The weekend training involves new developments in the field of counseling, problem solving, and new developments in the behavioral sciences. (Author)

A creative leadership development program was designed to provide 10 Black and Indian college administrators with knowledge and techniques from the behavioral sciences for the purpose of augmenting their creative leadership skills. (SBH)

Provides an outline of the topics covered in the program. Included are introductions to transactional analysis and Piaget's theory of intellectual development. Explains the evaluation of the program and presents data obtained from past participants. (GS)

Describes a successful retirement preparation program developed by the University of Wisconsin to help acquaint staff members 55 and over with advantages and pitfalls of retirement. Content of the six 2-hour sessions included financial planning, physical and mental health, housing and living arrangements, leisure time activities and the meaning of…

Explores the coordination, evolution, and expansion of the Communication in Instruction Master of Arts program taught throughout West Virginia. Describes the program--its development goals, course offerings and structure, and evaluation techniques used to assess its effectiveness. (SR)

The University of Houston/Houston Independent School District Teacher Corps project is designed to demonstrate the operation of an alternative school program intended to promote desegregation and to train educational personnel to function effectively in alternative schools in an urban setting. The project demonstrates how coordination of the…