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Bigby, Christine; Bould, Emma; Beadle-Brown, Julie – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2019
Background: Research indicates the value of active support in achieving good outcomes across a number of quality of life domains for people with intellectual disabilities. However, implementation is not easy, and little research has explored why. We aimed to identify some of the factors that impact on implementation of active support in supported…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Quality of Life, Intellectual Disability, Staff Development
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Bullock, Cheryl Davis; And Others – Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education, 1994
Personnel from 175 transitional programs for persons with disabilities rated academic/vocational integration and staff development as highest technical assistance needs, administrative leadership and budget as lowest. Special education coordinators rated ongoing career guidance/counseling significantly higher than did program directors. (SK)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Integrated Curriculum, Needs, Staff Development
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Mason, Ted; Rohde Fred – Theory Into Practice, 1972
Article describes one school system's approach to inservice and continuing education. (Authors)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Change, Evaluation
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Unruh, Glenys – Theory Into Practice, 1972
This district in suburban St. Louis, is moving from a spotty and optional staff development effort to a well-defined one based on concepts adapted from systems theory. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Costs, Educational Needs, Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
Boucebci, Mahfoud; Brau, Marie-Therese – Assignment Children, 1981
In the countries of the Third World, the urgency and the immensity of the need for staff trained in the care of the mentally handicapped calls for the formulation of training programs which can be rapidly and realistically implemented, but which can still be integrated into medium and long term programs. Journal availability: see EC 133 861.…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Inservice Education, Mental Retardation
Kincaid, Harry V.; Rink, Dan L. – 1972
U. S. Office of Education funding has been provided to Region Nine for fiscal year 1973 for an Adult Basic Education (ABE) staff development effort, aimed at improving the delivery of adult education services to meet target population needs and Federal program goals through preservice and inservice training of personnel engaged in adult education…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Federal Aid
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1983
Cooperation among institutions, ways of facilitating exchanges of specialists and experience, and the joint development of learning resources were examined in a meeting of leaders from 31 regional training institutions from all world regions. Part of UNESCO's long-term concern with the training of media professionals, the meeting opened with a…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Curriculum Development, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Perlman, Leonard G., Ed. – 1979
This publication includes six action papers presented at the Denver, Colorado, seminar on June 5-7, 1978. Three disability categories highlighted in the seminar are the topics of the papers: cancer, cardiac illness, and epilepsy. There are two papers devoted to each category of disability, one focusing on action for eliminating barriers to…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cancer, Change Strategies, Community Involvement