The ViSC Social Competence Program has been implemented in Austrian schools within the scope of a national strategy plan, Together Against Violence. The program is a primary preventive program designed for grades 5 to 8. The prevention of aggression and bullying is defined as a school development task, and the initial implementation of the program…

Research evidence suggests that, worldwide, physical education in early years is mainly taught by primary teachers (Graber et al., 2008; Hunter, 2006; Kirk, 2005). Descriptions of primary teachers' experiences of teaching physical education are particularly essential as an avenue for developing better-quality teacher training for teaching primary…

This paper explores the attitudes of teachers, as adult learners, towards learning to do animation. A part of popular culture which second-language students enjoy, until recently, animation has been technically too demanding for non-specialists to learn. Adult learners can experience e-learning as transformative, but also as a barrier. Thus,…

Cites eight factors that contribute to better inservice teacher training programs in reading, emphasizing the role of the administrator. (RB)

Describes several successful inservice teacher education programs in reading. (RB)

A description is given of the development, implementation, and the functional outcome of a revised inservice education correspondence course on leadership development in vocational education, which was offered by the University of Illinois. When used as group study and with invited guidance and administrative personnel, the course was very…

Stressing that instructional behaviors, programs, and materials developed for inservice education must be systematic, stimulating, psychologically sound, and organized, this document provides a guide to the development of inservice instructional packages. It includes extensive criteria for evaluating inservice instructional packages under the…

This document is part of a revised series of five publications, planning for Inservice Education, which was originally published in 1976 in five units. This introductory monograph provides a discussion of the generic principles of effective planning for inservice education programs. The contents are divided into an overview of the planning model,…

The Adult Basic Education (ABE) teacher-training institute held at Mississippi State University, was a joint effort of the Mississippi State Department of Education and Mississippi State University. The main efforts of the instruction were directed toward the preparation of teams of teacher-trainers who would responsible for the planning,…

Realizing the need for in-service workshops and graduate-level courses for middle-school practitioners, the College of Education Continuing Education Program of the University of Pennsylvania conducted a series of three-credit, graduate-level workshops throughout southeastern Pennsylvania during the summer of 1974. This is an ongoing workshop…

Because of inadequate preservice and in-service mathematics training programs, a critical need existed to provide quality in-service mathematics instruction for teachers in sparsely settled areas of Appalachia. A computer assisted instruction (CAI) course was developed for use with the IBM 1500 system which utilized an integrated approach relying…

Inservice education programs for public school teachers are needed for these, among other, reasons: (1) to provide teachers with preparation for teaching reading since this often not done by colleges and universities and is often not required for state department certification; (2) to help teachers keep abreast of the latest research in the field…

This document contains three sections each of which provides an overview of teacher centers and several case studies of individual centers in Japan, Britain, and the U. S. Although teacher centers tend to be diverse, those in England and Japan seem to have a describable national characteristic, Japanese centers tend to be large with regard to both…

Changes in verbalized inquiry behavior of teachers and students who participated in the Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory's Instructional Staff Development program in inquiry were identified. Teachers' verbal behaviors were analyzed in terms of their teaching strategies as related to three inquiry models. An expanded modification of…

The major objectives of this project were a) to facilitate teacher role changes necessary for transition from a group-paced to an individualized program, b) to develop a parent information and orientation program, c) to identify needs necessary for a transition of teacher roles, and d) to develop an instrument to analyze teacher performance in…