Montgomery County, Maryland, Public Schools has created an extensive staff development program for current and potential administrators. The program includes (1) leadership training to help participants make career decisions and acquaint them with various issues in administration, (2) an internship program, (3) an assessment center, and (4)…

Evaluated the effect of individual training of rehabilitation counselors (N=12) on their ability to write specific behaviorally stated, client-centered objectives. Results showed the number of behavioral objectives counselors wrote consistently increased as a function of training by a behavioral consultant. (JAC)

Subject-centered conventional education of teachers in the U.S. should be augmented by the growth open to teachers in the informal and innovative atmosphere of teacher centers that develop talents and confidence in the individual and emphasize the more child-centered view that is held in British schools. (JD)

This article presents a broad view of our current understanding of the influences of physical health on counseling interaction. It is hoped that counselor educators and supervisors can begin to encourage counselors' productive inquiry into the new technologies for assessing the physiological dimensions of helping. (Author)

Summarizes the recommendations of a Conference centered on new approaches in the professional training of chemists. Recommendations are for three areas of higher and inservice education: curriculum, industry-academe interaction, and career programs. (MLH)

This final report describes activities and achievements of a 3-year personnel preparation project of the University of Florida and the Northeast Florida Education Consortium. The project recruited, trained, and offered a bachelor's degree in special education to 12 paraprofessional teacher assistants. An additional 21 teachers without special…

This document offers three articles reporting research and practice on the use of paraeducators to provide support to students with disabilities and their teachers. Emphasis is on research funded by the Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs. The first article notes the increasing use of paraeducators to provide…

Article focused on language as a vital part of human learning, central to the interaction of teacher and pupil, thereby making the basis of effective teacher education programs a concern and understanding of linguistics and psycholinguistic concepts. (Author/RK)

Considers an approach to the development of career programs. (Author/RK)

Outlines the history of continuing education in nursing from the earliest activities sponsored by alumnae associations through its necessity as a condition for the relicensure of nurses and other health professionals. (Author/RK)

Three years of experience with summer workshops led the authors to summarize the development of an effective program and to conclude that this approach to teacher training carries the seeds of long-term success for inservice education as well as for need curricular implementation. (JB)

Discusses the inservice workshop program for students, parents, and school personnel developed by the Education Services Department of the Illinois Commission on Human Relations. (JM)