Inner-city schools located in high poverty communities often operate with insufficient resources to meet the educational needs of students. Community residents serving as paraeducators offer the dual benefits of expanding instructional capacity and fostering family-school relationships, provided they are appropriately prepared and incorporated…

The newsletter describes the staff and training activities of the Teaching Research Infant and Child Center which consists of two national model centers--Early Education for the Handicapped Model and a Severely Handicapped Education Model. It is reported that staff training procedures developed at the Boulder (Montana) River School and Hospital…

Many drug agencies are now recognizing that in order to be effective in dealing with the changing drug problems, their staffs require additional training in many areas. This paper presents one method by which to assess training needs; this approach relies heavily on the needs identified by actual drug abuse agencies staff. (Author)

Discusses the minimum competency model of staff qualifications. Classifies the ideal characteristics and qualifications for experiential leaders. Discusses interconnection of hiring, training, and supervision of experiential education staff and the relationship of these activities to program quality. Presents an integrated staff development model…

This monograph provides State education agencies and the general education community with some basic information pertaining to needs, present practices, and possible new approaches related to training and development for professional personnel in these agencies. The monograph is designed to provide the reader with an appreciation of the importance…

This compilation presents drafts and plans of staff development programs designed by participants of the Institute for Training in Staff Development for 21 western libraries. To provide a context for examination of the models, an overview outlines the necessary components for a successful staff development program. Section I considers staff…

Increased attention is being given to division-wide professional staff development. Readers are invited to consider the Mini-U format. (Author)

The Ways to Improve Schools and Education Project (WISE) seeks to enhance school staff knowledge and skills through appropriate staff development adapted from local business and industry. Project WISE FY84 is an outgrowth of project accomplishments in FY83, which included a pilot test of collaborative school-business partnerships at three sites.…

To meet the needs of the State of Tennessee and the people involved in the administration of local vocational programs, an inservice training program for local vocational administrators was developed. The basic approach to the project centered on the extern concept. Major components of the program included a summer conference, regional and…

Designed for Head Start grantees, this book provides training guidelines for improving Head Start staff competency. Chapter I offers a rationale for staff training activities, while chapter II characterizes the Head Start trainee. Chapter III addresses assessment of training needs on program and staff levels. The development of a training plan is…

A manual for trainers of development workers and change agents in the third world provides guidelines for evaluation of development training programs. Chapters define evaluation, present a general model of development, and discuss evaluation in development training programs. Designing training systems for development workers and change agents,…

The Psychometric Needs Assessment (PNA) model was designed to provide a means of describing a target population and various sub-populations contained therein. The specific purpose of such description is to provide a guide to determination of the continuing educational programming needs of professionals. Major attributes of the PNA model are the…