A project was conducted at Manor Junior College, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, to design and implement a development conference for all faculty and staff who have a direct impact on vocational students. Emphasis was placed upon improving the quality of instruction, updating teacher competence, and introducing learning mechanisms for improving program…

A description is given of the training and inservice plan for Westmoreland County Public Schools (Virginia) which focused on the personal and professional needs of teachers and the issues of the at-risk student population with which they work. A staff self-esteem workshop was developed which focused on the need for persons to care for themselves…

Mountain Empire Community College (MECC), Southwest Virginia Community College (SVCC), Virginia Highlands Community College (VHCC), and Clinch Valley College (CVC), a four-year institution, participated in a cooperative professional development program to enrich their support staff and explore support staff dynamics. The colleges used the…

The Louisiana Round Table of Program Evaluators was organized in 1980 among educational evaluators from large parish school systems and the State Department of Education to discuss topics of mutual concern. Since its inception the group has been instrumental in the development and implementation of various workshops directed toward the improvement…

The purposes and approaches of faculty development are discussed, along with specific college faculty development programs. A model for examining such activities and a framework for designing and implementing a faculty development workshop are also examined. Popular faculty development efforts include: faculty mentors for new faculty, conferences…

The curriculum for this 2-week workshop on educational research development and evaluation is designed to increase participants' skills in project development and proposal writing and increase their knowledge of research and evaluation methods. Geared toward adult professionals who are skilled and motivated, the curriculum helps participants to…

The position statement of the Association for Retarded Citizens (ARC) addresses issues in the design and delivery of programs for persons with mental retardation. An introductory section presents basic principles and philosophies underlying services, including integration, human rights, equal rights, normalization, and the developmental model.…

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…

A project was conducted to assist post-secondary vocational-technical teacher educators and staff development personnel in improving staff development programs in two-year post-secondary institutions. Thirty-one applicants were selected to participate in a national workshop. These applicants included vocational-technical teacher educators and…

TWENTY-SEVEN TEACHERS FROM SIX STATES ENROLLED IN A 5-WEEK PROGRAM FOR THREE SEMESTER HOURS OF CREDIT TO PREPARE THEM FOR THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF PLANNING AND CONDUCTING OCCUPATIONAL PROGRAMS. AN INSTITUTE FOR THE PURPOSE OF TEACHING BASIC KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES, AND ATTITUDES CONSIDERED ESSENTIAL FOR TEACHERS OF OCCUPATIONAL PREPARATION CLASSES IN…

The formation of a consortium of three elementary schools was proposed and initiated to offer inservice teacher education experiences to 45 staff members. The consortium schools shared resources to increase the scope and quality of staff development activities. A staff development program was designed to meet both group (institutional) and…

Module 4 of a seven module package for child protective service workers focuses on coordinating efforts of a parent aide program for abused and neglected children and their families with the Department of Human Resources. Five activities deal with the following aspects of the interface: (1) criteria for determining which cases are suitable for…

Included in this final report by the South Dakota Division of Elementary and Secondary Education are agendas for the conferences and workshops held to provide the elementary school library media specialist with the additional skills necessary for direct service to the exceptional student in a library learning center environment. The script of…

Produced by the participants at a summer curriculum development workshop, this booklet has a threefold purpose: to help educators in analyzing both the process and product of student writing to find ways of improving that writing, to provide activities for generating more and better student writing and for encouraging students to revise and edit…