This document reports the results of work in identifying promising approaches to the provision of technological update to vocational/technical teachers, and discusses barriers and facilitators to the use of these approaches. Technological update refers to the technical knowledge and skills needed by vocational/technical teachers to provide…

The New York City Staff Development Program for Bilingual/English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) Teachers and School Building Supervisors was designed to provide public school personnel working with limited English proficient children in grades five through eight with an overview of issues pertinent to the instruction of this population. The program…

This paper describes the steps taken and the discoveries made by one school district in its implementation of computer-based education and office management systems. Topics covered include: (1) the formation and responsibilities of the Instructional Technology Committee (ITC) in budgeting, purchasing, and planning staff development programs; (2)…

To meet the needs of changing student populations, respond to the results of current research, and justify their continued existence financially, writing centers must expand their services to accommodate the diverse needs of various academic, business, and civic members of their surrounding communities. Besides offering peer tutoring and…

This guide is intended to assist individuals (including deans, department heads, project directors, supervisors of inservice education, and directors of professional development) who are responsible for organizing and/or administering performance-based instructor training programs. The concept of performance-based teacher…

The papers in this collection focus on both underlying theoretical principles of language teaching, learning, and research and exchanges of information between teachers and researchers. The following titles are included: "CALS at Carleton" (Janice Yalden); "Computers in the Teaching of Linguistics" (Jean-Pierre Paillet);…

This report presents needs assessment data gathered for a Teacher Corps project in Pine Bluff School District (Arkansas). Subjective and objective data were collected from students, parents, and school personnel at five elementary and secondary schools, and from education majors and faculty at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and the…

This report describes and assesses the effectiveness of activities conducted by the University of Toledo (Ohio)/Springfield Local Schools Teacher Corps Project during the winter of 1981. On-site staff development activities provided at elementary, junior, and senior high schools are described: (1) two credit-bearing courses on multicultural…

This paper, on the state of inservice teacher education, is divided into five parts. The paper's first part, which focuses on the context in which teaching occurs and on the role of the teacher, points out that, while the common denominator in the study of teaching is the teacher/learner relationship, social issues also affect teachers and…

The Programmatic Approach to Guidance Excellence (PAGE 2) Project produced staff development materials for the career guidance components of program planning, curriculum-based guidance, and job placement. These materials make up the PAGE 2 Instructional Resource Package, intended to be used as a planning program for a comprehensive career guidance…

Documenting the processes and procedures, this report reviews phases of development, testing, and revision of 100 modules in a set of performance-based teacher education (PBTE) curricular materials. The first of two chapters discusses the need to develop a professional development program for vocational education teachers. A two-phase process is…

A project was conducted to design and implement an educational delivery system that incorporated both assessment and instructional services for adult basic education (ABE) exceptional learners in an urban adult learning center in New Jersey. Two areas were considered of priority in developing the project design: the development of an assessment…

This handbook provides specific examples of activities and procedures of labor-education collaboration within the context of the career education program. It is intended to help interested communities develop or expand labor's active involvement in the educational process. After an introduction, a section lists a number of concerns shared by…

The Montgomery County, Maryland school district has a five-year plan to develop and install revised instructional systems in four major subjects. The components of the instructional system are: performance objectives for pupils, appropriate student placement based on performance, instructional guides for teachers, assessment tasks, and pupil…

Six papers on the current and future state of inservice teacher education are presented in this monograph. In the first paper, a futuristic approach to what will comprise an educated person in the years to come envisions holistic education with an emphasis upon service to humankind and realization of world peace. An examination of the fundamental…