A program designed to serve culturally different gifted elementary students in the Omaha (Nebraska) Public Schools is described. Following a brief rationale, information on the program's identification procedures lists 12 typical characteristics of culturally diverse gifted students. Possible program approaches are delineated, including (1)…

This is a model for designing an inservice teacher workshop to assist teachers working with multicultural students. The basic assumption underlying the model is universities and schools need to work cooperatively to provide experiences for improving the quality of teaching by increasing awareness of educational issues and situations and by…

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

This publication describes an inservice training program implemented in September 1979 in the Montgomery County Public Schools (Maryland) to help physical education teachers involved with mainstreamed handicapped students. Issues emphasized in planning the program were relevance, information, convenience, and feasibility of the workshop model. Two…

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…

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 provides the final report of Project INSTEP (Inservice Training Programs), a pilot project to develop, implement, and evaluate an innovative inservice training program for public school teachers of the behaviorally disordered. An introductory chapter reviews program objectives and rationale. A second chapter outlines components of…

The second of a two volume discussion of Kansas' statewide model for inservice and preservice education of teachers of severely handicapped students is the final report. An introductory section provides an overview of the project's goals and discusses the need for teachers of the severely handicapped in Kansas. Objectives for the third year of the…

As part of the work from the Content Area Reading Project (CARP), which focuses on inservice teacher education in content area reading, this paper provides an overview of inservice content area reading within the CARP model. The first section of the paper reviews the literature on inservice education and indicates the serious problems with…

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…

A training program to promote links between the developmental disabilities system and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) is described. Objectives were to promote service delivery and the professional development of minorities in the developmental disabilities field. Three regional workshops in Alabama, Texas, and Virginia were…

The PRECEDE model, a conceptual model of comprehensive program development and implementation for health education, was used as a framework for a school-based drug (including alcohol and tobacco) education program specific to each individual classroom teacher's situation. A dual-purpose workshop was held for elementary and secondary school…

Small rural schools incur greater expense and hardship to take advantage of staff development activities, usually held in cities or universities. The Iowa Intervention Initiative (III) overcame practical and logistic problems to hold teacher workshops for 79 small rural Iowa schools. Discusses III goals, recruitment of participants, selection and…

Developed by the Los Rios Community College District (LRCCD) out of its own experiences with special needs students, this training manual provides ideas for organizing and presenting in-service staff development programs to increase awareness of learning disabilities. The first section of the manual discusses the model used at LRCCD to prepare its…

A handbook titled "The Educator's Handbook for Secondary Career Guidance Programs", and designed to aid the educator-counselor in formulating and implementing a workable secondary school career guidance program, was field tested in four secondary school settings in order to assess the effectiveness of the model. The handbook contained…