Workshop proceedings in San Francisco and Los Angeles concerning the development of the Management Approach to Teaching Consumer and Homemaking Education (MATCHE) are examined in this report. Basic information gleaned from presentations, reports, and transcripts of taped lectures of both workshops are included. Subjects contained in the report are…

Strategies for implementing instructional improvement programs must consider institutional characteristics, needs assessment, program and organizational objectives, and the characteristics of the instructional improvement program. Checklists, tables, and matrices are presented to illustrate the cyclical nature of the process of program development…

As a collection of articles this book is intended for use as a guide for planning and building teacher centers. The beginning articles tell how a combination of convictions, experience, high energy, and happenstance formed the first American teacher centers. The next several articles focus on practical matters such as staffing, needs assessment,…

Ideas and recommendations emerging from three regional workshops on staff development are presented. The workshops, conducted in early 1978, focused on three aspects of faculty development for inservice: the identification and and analysis of current and likely future staff development in colleges and universities whose mission in elementary and…

Based on the Florida Linkage System Project, this training program introduces school personnel to methods and resources for group problem-solving and decision-making. The program focuses on developing and refining skills for communication, data gathering, problem analysis, decision-making, goal setting, and program development. A primary objective…

This document describes an organizational structure and processes for planning, coordinating and implementing state-wide inservice teacher educatian in New York. Seven major elements in program planning are outlined: 1) governance; 2) needs assessment; 3) outcomes; 4) delivery systems; 5) rewards/incentives; 6) program evaluation; and 7) funding.…

This report documents a conference on the conceptual framework underlying the management of Teacher Corps Projects. The conference, designed to provide participants with training in specific skills pertinent to their responsibilities, was attended by school administrators, program development specialists, community coordinators, community council…

The Pennsylvania School Improvement Program (PSIP) was created to assist local schools and school districts in the development of curriculum improvement strategies. The process involves the use of "linkers," curriculum specialists who work with teams from the local level to ascertain needs, then connect the local teams with the research…

A model program was developed to find ways to bring illiterate and undereducated adults into Massachusetts adult education programs. Prospective program clients (young adults) who will be identified by such organizations and agencies as schools, courts, welfare offices, and veterans and civic groups will be contacted by outreach workers to…

This report presents results of a project to provide useful information for planning pregnancy prevention programs. It focuses on five project objectives: (1) identification of factors associated with adolescent sexual behavior, contraceptive behavior, and pregnancy; (2) development of instructional objectives or skills associated with pregnancy…

This guidebook provides a step-by-step outline for developing a health education program in a local school district. (JD)

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…

A two-year project was undertaken in Kansas to develop a five-year plan for career education in the state. The first year resulted in (1) a brief summary of previous work done in Kansas since the introduction of the career education concept, (2) establishment of a definition of career education, (3) a description of various resources that can be…

The perceived staff development needs and preferences of teachers in selected middle and junior high schools involved in individualized schooling were the topics of this research. Inservice education strategies preferred by teachers and principals were identified and functional and dysfunctional aspects of programs analyzed. A field study…

A planning model is presented which was used throughout the development of state and local and vocational guidance models and plans for West Virginia. The general planning model upon which the state model is based is also included. The planning model used is outlined in eighteen steps: (1) identify the problem; (2) decision makers awareness; (3)…