Described is an inservice training program designed to provide administrators, supportive staff, classroom teachers, paraprofessionals, and parents with techniques, methods, and materials for students with learning problems. It is explained that the system is intended to develop administrative leadership, organize the service delivery system, and…

Summarizes for a sample of elementary teachers the previous utilization and future demand for inservice teacher workshops. A mail survey of randomly selected K-6 teachers in New York and northern New Jersey yielded 2,160 responses. Over 66 percent had attended one inservice training session during the previous two years. (Author)

A survey of state in-service training plans identified priorities in in-service training topics (including instructional and behavioral management of the handicapped child and implementation of the individualized education program); instructional personnel to be trained; differential patterns of delivering training; and such additional needs as…

Considers why in-service teacher education has been receiving increasing attention in terms of educational priorities, why it has not been succeeding, and how it can become effective. A set of guidelines gathered from five studies, which surveyed and analyzed a wide variety of in-service practices and programs from the national to local school…

The paper examines the procedural guidelines for developing and implementing individualized education programs (IEPs) for handicapped children. (Author/DB)

Describes the Living Curriculum,'' an inservice teacher education program in Tennessee. (MM)

Competency-based in-service education programs are put forth as an effective way to provide systematic training for special education teachers. (MM)

Reported are two approaches to inservice teacher training. In the defect approach, inservice training is viewed as compensating for teacher weaknesses. The approach advocated is the growth approach designed to help teachers become more sensitive to and improve upon what's happening in their classroom. (Author/DS)

The major issues in in-service education concern the development of programs based on multilevel, cross-validated assessments of needs. (JMF)

Several in-service models are presented including a provision of services model, job maintenance model, personal development model, and three problem-solving models. (JMF)

The past two decades have been times of heightened emphasis on changing structures between universities and public schools toward collaboration as a means of improving the education and preparation of pre-service and in-service teachers. Numerous studies have found that students in teacher education courses often have difficulty utilizing the…

The paper outlines the TTPTE project (2010-2011) which was based on the need for innovative and effective ideas for increasing the efficiency of teachers' in design and technology daily work. The project was aimed at finding new ways of how to support in-service teachers in design and technology education and how teachers themselves can upgrade…

The introduction of foreign languages into the first three-year cycle of primary school has spurred the need for qualified teachers, and is one of the main discussion points among experts in foreign language teaching. Most of the contemporary studies report that there is a global gap between the supply of qualified teachers of foreign languages to…