A survey of superintendents of residential schools for the deaf in the United States sought to evaluate perceptions of appropriate goals and planning procedures for effective inservice programs for dormitory counselors. Among other findings, superintendents placed a high value on the use of inservice education to help counselors learn techniques…

Describes an extensive inservice training program for child care workers that defines the tasks and roles of the worker, other staff members, and the child, or youth, and provides concepts from developmental psychology as well as strategies for achieving objectives. (SDH)

Special skills are required for foster parenting adequate to the needs of today's foster children. This paper describes how one agency planned and implemented the first components of a comprehensive, long-range program of foster parent education. (SDH)

Findings indicate that an in-service educational program can help an agency achieve two ends: determine the types of persons to hire and plan future training. This analysis of a program for juvenile court personnel points out how this might be done. (Author)

New methods and innovations are bound to fail if the teacher's attitude is not taken into account. Here the author describes a program of in-service workshops to help teachers shape a new outlook on learning and experimentation. (Editor)

Narrates the dilemma of the principal who considers the chances of increasing pupil learning and achievement rate by implementing new ideas or by retaining the old emphasis on efficiency. (WM)

This study sought to find out what inservice activities are preferred by elementary teachers in urban areas. The study concentrated specifically on inservice activities designed to familiarize teachers with innovations in mathematics education. (Author)

These materials were developed to help high school teachers to become familiar with the approach to tenth-grade Euclidean geometry which was adopted by the School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG). It is emphasized that the materials are unsuitable as a high school textbook. Each document contains material too difficult for most high school students.…

Described is a model for inservice training of paraprofessionals working with the severely and profoundly mentally retarded. Reviewed are the following training phases: orientation, including a discussion of the program's overview and expectations; demonstration and modeling of activity training; monitoring the resident's progress; and…

A nationwide survey sought to analyze hospital orientation and inservice education programs to determine their nature and costs with focus on differences in orientation costs for new nurses with three different types of preparation (diploma, associate degree (AD), and baccalaureate) and for cost differences in hospitals of varying sizes.…

The Residential Leadership Series at Ball State University consists of six weekend sessions scheduled over the school year. It provides an inservice education vehicle for members of the total spectrum of school personnel who wish to keep knowledgeable about trends, new information, and innovative practices related to administrative and leadership…

The Training Institute for Desegregated Education (TIDE), initiated as a response to requests for services from the Detroit public schools, has as its main purpose the reduction and elimination of problems related to discrimination by race and sex and the desegregation of Detroit schools. This purpose is to be accomplished through inservice…

This is a discussion on how translator training can be improved. Some conclusions are: that professional societies, universities, and industries which employ translators should work together; that the role of the student should increase; and that universities should cooperate in researching and implementing a more rigorous system of instruction.…

This article attempts to apply recent research findings to a possible organizational model of human relations training in a small-college setting. The model is broken down into six training sequences: (1) affective experiences, (2) human relations, (3) practice in application; (4) preservice, and (5) inservice I and inservice II. (Author/BW)

The success of El Paso Community College (Texas) is attributed to its early definition of instructional thrusts including: systematizing and individualizing instruction; increasing awareness, sensitivity, and appreciation of the culture of the students; development of staff bilingual capabilities; development of staff teams versed in management by…