This booklet contains lists of tasks intended to be used by staff support specialists in planning staff development programs for vocational educators. These task lists are to be used by staff support specialists to understand and record the tasks and activities related to the staff development program as a first step in such planning. Task lists…

This manual presents strategies that are intended for use by vocational administrators to retain nontraditional male and female students in secondary vocational education programs. They may also be applicable to postsecondary and adult vocational students. Strategies are divided into five major categories: policy, inservice (workshops and training…

This report on the education professions covers the current federally funded teacher centers, the antecedent Federal role in the development of teacher centers, and teacher center development in several other countries. It is divided into four major categories. Part one contains two articles--one on the history of the Federal role in the…

Part 10 of a series of 13 instructor's manuals for the competency based training of curriculum consultants for exceptional children focuses on the development of support systems. Three competencies are considered: (1) that a curriculum consultant should be capable of developing a comprehensive and systematic inservice training program, (2) that a…

This is one of a series of 20 booklets designed for participants in an in-service course for teachers of elementary mathematics. The course, developed by the University of Illinois Arithmetic Project, is designed to be conducted by local school personnel. In addition to these booklets, a course package includes films showing mathematics being…

The major focus of this document is to report the current status of the Iowa-ASSIST program, a statewide education improvement model aimed at helping students, teachers, administrators, and citizens to improve science teaching and science offerings in their communities and schools. Described are procedures for establishing 15 regional service…

A STUDY OF INSERVICE EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN NEBRASKA SECONDARY SCHOOLS WITH 10-40 TEACHERS, AND OF STRONG INSERVICE PROGRAMS IN NEIGHBORING STATES, YIELDED CRITICISM WHICH CUT ACROSS SUBJECT MATTER AND GRADE LINES. 165 TEACHERS AND 155 ADMINISTRATORS WERE SURVEYED, REVEALING THAT--(1) MOST FELT THEIR SCHOOL'S PROGRAM WAS INADEQUATE (43 TEACHERS…

The inservice program and materials described here are intended to increase understanding and, when necessary, to encourage a change in attitude on the part of teachers dealing with problems considered typical in desegregated and integrated schools. Realistic situations designed to give participants the opportunity to encounter and deal with…

The document presents Module 8, gifted and talented students among educationally disadvanted groups, of the Star Power modules developed for school personnel who have an interest in or a need to explore the area of gifted and talented education. It is explained in an introductory section that the modules can be used for independent study, for…

This book is designed to assist the teacher in providing children with creative learning experiences in mathematics. Though these experiences are considered appropriate for a wide range of ages and grade levels, they have been assembled for pupils in grades 5 through 9. The material contained in this book was developed as part of an extensive…

This collection of materials reports the research and development of a series of inservice training "minicourses," short courses (about 75 minutes per day for 15 days) designed to teach specific teacher behavior patterns with use of the minroteaching technique, self-evaluation of video tape feedback, instructional films, and filmed illustrations…

This report contains the proceedings of a seminar on "In-service Vocational Education Personnel Development for the 1980's," which consisted of two keynote addresses, a series of presentations, and group discussions. Chapter I, The Context of Inservice Education, includes three presentations: Philosophical Bases, Trends, and Issues for Inservice…

After a brief introduction, the guide to career education in Alabama identifies several career education concepts which concern the relevance of education to the world of work and diagrams the components of the three elements of career education (awareness, exploration, and preparation). The next section diagrams the career education curriculum…

This bibliography on continuing education for teachers covers a period of approximately five years, and is partially annotated. Some of the entries are available through ERIC and are listed with their ED numbers. The bibliography is divided according to the following subtopics: (1) competency-based programs; (2) continuing education in general;…

Designed to improve inservice teacher training, this report surveys the kinds of inservice activities needed by social studies teachers in Indiana during 1975. Nearly 40 percent of the state's social studies teachers responded to the questionnaire which focused on how inservice activities should be designed, when they should be held, and what the…