Teacher directed inservice or professional development is one means of increasing teacher self improvement. However, unless the teacher motivation stems from an intrinsic desire to teach more effectively, the degree of professional growth will be minimal. For this reason it is imperative that a teacher directed inservice program depend on…

A model for a workshop designed to revitalize the teaching of measurement in a metric context is given. The model is organized in terms of planning, preparation, operation, closing, and follow-up. (MN)

An inservice training program for advisers of undergraduate students that was implemented at Michigan State University in 1981 is discussed. Four primary ingredients were essential to establish and sustain the program: financial support and sponsorship by the central administration, the identification and authorization of the appropriate unit and…

The document presents Module 9, programs for the gifted/talented, of the Star Power modules developed for school personnel who have an interest in or a need to explore the area of gifted and talented education. It is explained in an introductory section that the modules can be used for independent study, for small group interaction, or for a large…

Traces the development of a marine education summer workshop for pre-college teachers. (CP)

A teacher inservice preference questionnaire was used to identify, categorize, and compare inservice preferences of educators, and findings indicated that workshops were ranked first as the inservice activity most preferred with conventions and professional conferences least preferred. Other categorical analysis indicated that professional…

This report reviews the practices of the various states represented at the second national Study Conference of State Supervisors of Foreign Languages (May 1963) pertaining to inservice education. Results of a questionnaire distributed to the state supervisors focus on the following topics in this article: (1) types of inservice programs, (2)…

Contents of this final progress report of staff training programs funded under Title IV, Civil Rights Act of 1964 include: guidelines for progress report; the integration effort brought up-to-date; project proposal activities for the period being reported; evaluation; dissemination; program changes; personnel; and problem areas and…

THIS IS A REPORT OF A WORKSHOP FOR 114 SOUTHERN EDUCATIONAL LEADERS WHICH AIMED AT (1) INVESTIGATING THE PROBLEMS FACED BY TEACHERS OF DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN, (2) GENERATING IDEAS FOR MODEL PRE-SERVICE AND IN-SERVICE PROGRAMS FOR SUCH TEACHERS, AND (3) HAVING WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS DESIGN SUCH PROGRAMS. THERE WAS GENERAL AGREEMENT THAT THE BASIC…

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 third part of a 3-phase program designed to move the participant through a series of informational…

Faculty development growing out of a Piagetian curriculum (ADAPT) for the collegiate freshman year at the University of Nebraska is discussed in this paper. ADAPT faculty workshops focusing on the Piagetian theory and applications of the theory in teaching are described. The workshop is evaluated by means of a participant self-report and…

The program is intended for inservice use by State department consultants, intermediate and local school district inservice coordinators, and college and university instructors. It affords them the opportunity to examine the concept of career education and the concomitant implications for change in their local settings. The document is the…

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…

The Institutional Research Office at Delgado College (Louisiana) developed a campus-based mini-grant program awarding funds to individual faculty members proposing projects to improve instruction. Inservice workshops assisted the faculty in grant-writing and research development skills before grant proposals were solicited. Criteria for acceptance…