The Production Control Training Program is a competency-based management training program currently in operation at the Defense Systems Division of Honeywell, Incorporated. Designed with the needs of the adult learner in mind, the program involves pretests and meetings between supervisors and individual staff members to identify individualized…

The first of seven modules on early intervention with young (birth to age 3) handicapped children is designed to provide information on child development to teachers, administrators, and other professionals. A training outline lists objectives and preparation ideas for an inservice session on child development. Activities suggested include…

Divorce American-style is becoming an ever-more-frequent event - with effects on children in school. This article confronts the issue from the viewpoint of the school counselor. (Editor)

Describes a course for inservice teacher education involving a transdisciplinary approach to environmental studies. (SH)

Problems raised by urbanization are many. Those whose solution can be assisted through adult education are in economics; health, nutrition, and family planning; citizenship training; recreation; and education and culture. (AG)

As a result of the need for a systematic approach to preservice and inservice training of administrative personnel a management academy program was initiated in the Dallas independent school district beginning in the spring of 1975. A comprehensive program was planned and implemented with a format designed to provide training for prospective…

The cost advantages of an in-hospital training program for nurses in coronary care were demonstrated by the experience of in-service trainers at North Central Kansas City Memorial Hospital, Missouri. (BP)

A teaching center at the University of Northern Colorado organized a series of metrication workshops. University personnel trained inservice teachers to serve as affiliate instructors for the workshops. (SD)

This study identifies the factors leading to the socialization of new principals. The study examined the identification of new principals, the socialization or learning processes that lead to the principal's professional development, the extent to which other principals (peers) play a part in that socialization, the extent to which the selection…

This manual is designed to help state and regional water supply training personnel conduct seminars for instructors of water plant operators. The purpose is to help state supervisors upgrade the quality of training given to the plant operators by their instructors. Since a survey indicated that operator training instructors are technically…

The costs of human resources consume a disproportionate percentage of the hospital's operating budget when compared to the operating budget of other industries. Within these costs two related issues--nursing shortage and nursing recruitment--are particularly relevant to development of nontraditional staff development roles. Traditionally, staff…

This study is divided into two parts. The first part is an overview of the literature on boards. This includes consideration of boards of directors of business corporations, of school boards, and of social service boards. The review assesses this literature in terms of its relevance for improving social service boards. Also included is a detailed…

Two sets of administrators (principals and superintendents) were asked if selected inservice education programs were being implemented currently in the respondents' schools and school systems and, secondly, what their perceptions were of the need for selected inservice education programs in the next five years. The study requested responses of a…