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Shepherd, John; Richardson, Sally – 1988
This manual has been developed for those staff members at further education unit (FEU) colleges and polytechnics in the United Kingdom that are responsible for Professional, Industrial, and Commercial Updating (PICKUP) staff development activities. It is divided into four sections. The first section provides background on the PICKUP project, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education
Tuttle, Lester E., Jr., Ed.; Ciccone, Russell A., Ed. – 1969
Staff development activities are the subject of a resource guide directed at educators of migrant children. One county participating in the Florida Migratory Child Compensatory Program was selected to serve as a model. Planning for activities should be individually-based, problem-oriented, goal-directed, time-factored, and participant-controlled.…
Descriptors: Conferences, Consultants, Education Service Centers, Educational Planning

Storer, John H.; Crosswait, Diana J. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1995
Small rural schools incur greater expense and hardship to take advantage of staff development activities, usually held in cities or universities. The Iowa Intervention Initiative (III) overcame practical and logistic problems to hold teacher workshops for 79 small rural Iowa schools. Discusses III goals, recruitment of participants, selection and…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Models

Pisano, Anita; Tallerico, Marilyn – Journal of Staff Development, 1990
Factors which influenced the success of a New York staff development program designed to improve student writing included district commitment, voluntary participation, in-district training workshops, on-site support, principals' support, parents' understanding, and continuous followup. Teachers learned the importance of seeing content first and…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Inservice Teacher Education
Radio Corp. of America, Dallas, TX. Education Services. – 1974
Third, and final, in a series of two-week workshops designed to teach the techniques of developing competency-based curriculum materials, the phase III workshop had two major thrusts: to assess the quality of curriculum materials previously developed and to determine in what areas of curriculum development the workshop participants needed…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Development

Davidson, Neil; And Others – Journal of Staff Development, 1990
Discusses four models of staff development for cooperative learning in mathematics: graduate seminar with weekly meetings; workshop enhanced by support systems and followup; school-based staff development with monthly meetings; and projects involving collaboration between university and school district personnel. The article lists 10 important…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Activities
O'Banion, Terry, Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1977
The staff of a college is its single greatest resource, and its most significant capital investment. It is the collective manager of the college mission and purpose. As the purpose changes, so must the staff have opportunities to change and develop. This sourcebook presents selected approaches to staff development in community colleges. It…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Bibliographies, College Faculty, Community Colleges
Weddington, Doris – 1974
Although deeply concerned, community college faculty often have not been prepared through preservice education or previous teaching experiences to teach adult students with the variety of needs and orientations now characteristic of the community college population. This paper proposes a total staff development program involving a partnership…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutional Cooperation
Gardner, Daniel L.; And Others – 1981
Designed for use by those who intend to improve the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)-adult education linkage through staff development activities, this guide includes a description of CETA purposes, adult education programs, educational linkages, staff development considerations, and support material. The CETA-adult education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Articulation (Education), Coordination, Educational Cooperation
Thomas, Edward G.; White, Patrick E. – 1976
A staff exchange project designed to provide for an exchange of vocational education teachers and administrators with supervisors and technicians from business and industry is presented in this handbook. A step-by-step plan, for use at State, regional, and local levels, is given for initiating, planning, and implementing an exchange project. Six…
Descriptors: Business, Cooperative Planning, Exchange Programs, Industry
Claude, Armand; And Others – 1980
These proceedings of a workshop designed to test a model for a seminar to train adult educators and to discuss the characteristics of adult education in Nordic countries (with special attention to underprivileged groups) consist of a general report and syntheses of two group sessions. Discussed in the general report are the background and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged
Tibbetts, John W.; Westby-Gibson, Dorothy – 1982
Designed primarily for administrators, staff developers, counselors, and teachers of adult basic education (ABE) and English as a second language (ESL), this book provides resources for a staff development program for trainers of ABE and ESL teachers. There are four sections. The staff development manual provides a procedure for introducing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Competency Based Education
Baldus, Lorayne – 1997
This report describes phase VI of the Equity Staff Development project, an ongoing project to achieve equity and diversity at Wisconsin technical colleges by creating an institutional climate supporting achievement by all students. Among the project's major activities and outcomes are the following: the existing train-the-trainer format of peer…
Descriptors: Action Research, Attitude Change, Comparative Analysis, Diversity (Student)
Pedras, Melvin J. – 1983
A proposed model for the staff development of community college part-time faculty was designed for direct application at Clark County Community College (CCCC) in Las Vegas, Nevada. The model, which was based on a literature review, a survey of professional staff at CCCC, and a review by the CCCC study advisory committee, addresses the following…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development