Findings from an Employee Satisfaction Survey conducted in spring 2000 at Austin Community College (ACC) (Texas) indicate that: (1) staff in many areas need customer service training; (2) telephones are not used effectively by many offices; (3) many areas are not able to respond quickly to the needs of college staff; and (4) 18 highly used areas…

This paper describes Project Impact*Net, a model project for delivering training to paraeducators and teachers in light of requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. The project delivered four semester-length courses to instructional sites serving 69 participants in Delaware, Idaho, Pennsylvania, and Utah. The Project Impact*Net delivery system…

This paper describes the Teacher Support Specialist in Science (TS[cubed]) project, which was conducted at the University of Georgia. This project aimed to provide subject-specific instructional support to inexperienced and student teachers by way of mentoring. During this project, three sets of data were collected to reflect participants…

Technical, manufacturing, and administrative personnel in an IBM plant can request participation in a highly flexible career development program which is based on the assumption that the vitality of "obsolete" employees can probably be renewed only through volumtary development of each individual in directions dictated by that individual's…

Describes briefly salient features of an audio-tutorial program intended for use by inservice and preservice teachers. Individualization of instruction, early contact with students, and testing of instructional materials are accomplished throughout the program. (PS)

Thirty-four physics teacher from 23 states and two foreign countries participated in an intensive two-week course in lecture demonstrations. Mornings were spent brainstorming to suggest possible demonstrations, afternoons were devoted to presenting demonstrations to group. (DF)

Describes various facets of Washington, D. C.'s Coolidge High School's reading program, including the student lounge and the inservice teacher training program. (VJ)

Author explores the continuing problem of an adequate approach to teacher evaluation and suggests a procedure which he has found to be quite satisfactory. (Editor)