Development of effective professional training programs for adults requires: careful, honest analysis of organizational needs and conditions; an overall training approach geared to distinctive adult characteristics; and a logical program planning sequence, normally involving a number of steps. These steps or elements in planning would include…

This booklet examines the topic of inservice training for educational administrators and is intended to aid school district personnel interested in developing and implementing such programs. Besides discussing the inservice training opportunities currently available for Oregon school administrators, the authors also provide general guidelines for…

This handbook, designed to assist Kentucky school district personnel in planning school psychological services, is organized into four major sections. In the initial section, Overview of School Psychology, information on training and credentialing of school professionals is presented. This section includes information on state requirements for…

The Guidelines Manual produced by the Media Guidelines Project consists of five major sections, the first of which is a checklist offering a roster of criteria related to media training programs and against which planners and evaluators can develop concepts, gather information, construct specifications and make judgments. The second part of the…

Offers 20 guidelines that facilitators can use in planning effective workshops and staff development sessions. The guidelines take into account the diversity of individuals attending the workshops and ways in which to accommodate various learning styles. (GLR)

Often personnel performing managerial functions within educational systems are educators with almost no training in management. This paper presents ideas on how to organize a training activity intended to develop management knowledge and skills among educational systems officials and to implement an organizational self-study on management…

Guidelines designed to be used in planning non-degree courses in information science and services are described. Courses referred to would contribute to improvement of the role and place of information professionals, information work, and information science in servicing personnel in scientific and technical fields, particularly in developing…

A developmental effort--the Media Guidelines Project--sought to create and validate criteria to assist in planning media training programs, in evaluating media-related training proposals, and in assessing training program outputs. The ultimate purpose was to insure the development of manpower with the competencies which will be required in the…

Materials in this bibliography were selected and recommended by members of the Use of Machine-Assisted Reference in Public Libraries Committee, Reference and Adult Services Division, American Library Association. Topics include: financial aspects, equipment and communications considerations, comparing databases and database systems, advertising…

Because many schools face the difficult task of training teachers to use the Internet, this paper provides guidelines for planning and implementing an Internet training program for teachers. The first issue that must be addressed is defining goals and objectives by assessing the needs of the network users. Next, the various methods of Internet…

Members of the Technical Working Group representing 14 Unesco member states met (1) to review and discuss major problems, issues, and prospects in the region for educational broadcasting; (2) to identify training needs for promotion of educational broadcasting; and (3) to develop guidelines for the production, use, and evaluation of educational…

This report summarises the findings of the project, The New Duty to Promote Disability Equality. Section 1 describes the individual aim of each site. Section 2 identifies the main themes arising from the project. Section 3 describes how the project findings have been disseminated. Section 4 highlights key messages for organisations working in and…

Designed for Head Start grantees, this book provides training guidelines for improving Head Start staff competency. Chapter I offers a rationale for staff training activities, while chapter II characterizes the Head Start trainee. Chapter III addresses assessment of training needs on program and staff levels. The development of a training plan is…

In a project designed to improve the recruitment, training and utilization of undergraduate social welfare workers in fourteen of the Southern states an attempt was made to arrive at a better understanding of just what the baccalaureate level social worker was to be. The definition was needed both for setting college curriculum objectives and for…