As one means of serving their clients, Ginn and Co. made a commitment in the early 1980's to provide inservice workshops for teachers that more closely related to customer needs. The vehicle for assessing these needs and ultimately designing appropriate inservice activities is Stages of Concern about the Innovation (SoC), one of the diagnostic…

The staff development model described in this paper involves collaborative planning in which the teachers are involved, while also providing a mechanism to assist participants to identify their inservice needs. The model consists of three major components: (1) the preliminary input of a selected committee which produces a needs assessment survey;…

Proposal development has three stages--assessing needs, planning a program, and writing a proposal. (Author/IRT)

Research literature supports the contention that teachers should be involved in program design, implementation, and evaluation of inservice education programs. This study was an attempt to gain information concerning the self-perceived inservice needs of teachers in an urban setting. Six areas of need were identified: (1) developing pupil…

Teachers can take on the additional responsibility of inservice leadership and can be trained in the processes of curriculum development. Through implementation of those procedures, teachers can initiate an ongoing system of needs-based inservice education. Steps in initiating this process include: (1) Teachers take the major responsibility for…

Describes current attitudes toward staff development through inservice education, the need to coordinate staff evaluation and inservice programs, and the leadership required of administrators and committees. Particular attention is paid to basing inservice programs on needs expressed by teachers. The program followed in Fort Lee (New Jersey) is…

Firm planning objectives, clearly stated relationships to overall institutional objectives, faculty involvement, and active leadership are advocated for successful academic planning. Faculty involvement is dependent on the strength of the technical, marketing, and budgeting staffs, and involvement in the planning process may kindle faculty…

This handbook describes an approach and provides guidelines for establishing a school-based inservice education program. The program is based on a single, local school staff that determines its own needs for professional development and uses its strengths and talents to meet those needs. Four basic phases for establishing a school-based program…

This report describes the planning processes used to develop a five-year teacher corps project for inservice teacher improvement. The planning model was designed to provide collaboration with all persons who would be involved in the project. The input from district, university, and community consultants was used as well as from teachers…

Steps taken by a university to develop a successful and meaningful inservice teacher education program for public school teachers are described. Development of this program involves cooperative effort from several different sources. Faculty members, as part of their teaching load, are assigned to educational support teams that help school…

Describes a part-time instructor needs assessment survey devised during the 1978 spring term at Richland College in the Dallas County (Texas) Community College District. The survey provided a way for part-time faculty to share in the planning of relevant staff development programs to help them function more effectively. (MF)

The key determinants of successful implementation of a teacher inservice education program are discussed. Strong motivation and perceived need for change on the part of the teachers themselves is a major factor in initiating a program. Other critical factors are group involvement, mutual support and feedback, external support, administrative…

This report describes the second phase of a teacher learning cooperative project designed to coordinate the economic, physical, and human resources of a number of small elementary school districts in California and the Marin County Superintendent of Schools Office. Whereas the first phase dealt with the formation and implementation of the…

The Problem Solving Team (PST) is a school-based group that provides consultation and follow-up assistance to insure proper placement of students in school site programs and to help decrease the number of inappropriate referrals to special education and other programs. A PST Project identified and analyzed the characteristics of successful PSTs in…

The most successful district inservice programs are developed by a committee representing each group that is to receive the training and by the institutions which are capable of providing it. Since colleges and universities will be called upon to provide some of the services, they should become involved in the initial planning and designing of the…