The school principal has a key role in working with teachers to enhance the school as a learning community. Chapter 1 discusses the standards that emanate from such organizations as the National Staff Development Council (NSDC) and National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) and that serve as a basis for designing staff…

An extensive, three-year inservice training model is described as implemented MACOS in a elementary social studies program. (KM)

School systems looking for successful types of in-service reading programs can offer the following types of programs which have fared well in the New Haven schools: Reading Share-In; Reading Exposition; Mini-Reading Courses; and Make It and Take It Workshops. (Author/CB)

Professional growth should be regarded as an essential continuous process throughout one's professional career. (Author)

Describes staff development activities sponsored by the Rochester Area Career Education Council and Rochester Institute of Technology in cooperation with local industry and businesses. The activities involve structural visits and internships for professional staff in education. (JOW)

The author considers some of the complexities in designing special education inservice programs. This article is part of a theme issue on mainstreaming. (SJL)

A flexible approach to curriculum development begins with staff development, uses curriculum mapping, and results in a loose-leaf notebook useful to teachers. (Author)

Through a cooperative arrangement, Advanced Systems Incorporated employees can earn a master's degree in instructional technology from Northern Illinois University. The program is mutually beneficial to the university and the corporation. (Author/WD)

Reports the findings of a study that surveyed over 500 human resource developers to determine the extent to which they have heard the word and are seizing the opportunity to involve themselves in planning, development, and administration of nonsales and marketing recognition award and incentive programs for their organizations. (LRA)

Examines ways in which a teacher appointed as professional tutor can support school staff development activities. Identifies tutor task areas and discusses experiences gained in a pilot project concerned with the role of tutors. Suggests situations in which professional tutors can successfully take on staff development activities. (Author/MK)

Inservice training must be improved and expanded in the years ahead to meet the needs of those who work with young handicapped children. Recognizing and avoiding the problems of general inservice and viewing inservice as adult education with a content focus on the child provides a background for improving training. Journal availability: see EC 133…

Provides guidelines for helping a high school newspaper staff produce a special spring issue that is more attractive and impressive than the regular newspaper as a means of providing a challenge to staff members and renewing their enthusiasm for their work. (GT)

Research conducted with a sample of 86 classroom teachers concerning the teaching of reading suggests that the needs they report must be analyzed by objective means to determine the underlying conditions that result in expression of the symptoms. (Author/MLF)

Industry and education should expand their work together to actively include lifelong education. This would benefit the student, industry and society. Examples of industry-education collaboration illustrate responses to cyclic life patterns. (JOW)