This study investigates the tensions a teacher educator faces in facilitating a media literacy teacher education course at the university level. Teaching tensions are conceptualized as a three-tier framework. At the first level, tensions may arise in the selection and application of pedagogies associated with critical and new/21st century…

This study investigated the views of teachers, students and their parents on the FATIH (Movement of Enhancing Opportunities and Improving Technology) Project, which was put into service by the Ministry of National Education in cooperation with the Ministry of Transportation in Turkey in November 2010 for the purpose of increasing students' success…

This essay describes a vision of social class-sensitive pedagogy aimed at disrupting endemic classism in schools. We argue persistent upward mobility discourses construct classist hierarchies in schools and classroom practice and are founded on misunderstandings of work, lived experiences of social class, and the broader social and economic…

Article described an innovative program that combined curriculum reform with inservice teacher training. (RK)

A secondary level in-service teacher development program designed to incorporate innovative teaching abilities is described. For journal availability see SO 504 329. (DE)

The author provided a list of pertinent advice gleaned from administrators' comments and personal observations of inservice programs as guidelines for administrators who wished to follow the established concept of teacher inservice education. (Author/RK)

Described a program designed to stimulate teacher involvement and to break down isolation within the profession. This program provided opportunities for important initiatives in the furtherance of the teacher's professional development. (Author/RK)

Discussed inservice courses for Further Education teachers and the responsibilities of employing authorities to organize those courses. (RK)

A well-planned, effective inservice program should include the following criteria: long-range preparation involving all staff, follow-up supportive services, focus on teachers' stated needs, cooperation of teachers and teacher educators in discovering how teachers can continue to grow, development of knowledge about resources and necessary…

Outlined is a nine phase inservice program for school personnel to aid in the implementation of Public Law 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Provided for each phase are a statement of emphasis, objectives, intended participants, and duration and number of meetings. Phases include a 3-hour meeting with Board of Education and…

A rationale, a model, and several suggestions are presented for increasing and maintaining the rate of classroom implementation of new teacher skills developed through inservice training programs. Because the health-related instructional areas have received insufficient attention in post-training studies, the suggestions are presented in the…

Evaluated with approximately 200 Head Start personnel in Iowa were two staff training models for serving handicapped children in Head Start--an experiential training model and a seminar-oriented training model. In the experiential model, Head Start staff (directors, education coordinators, health coordinators, and teachers) spent 2 days in a…

The final report summarizes objectives and activities of Project MITER (Montgomery Inservice Training and Educational Resources), a program to assist regular educators and administrators who would or might be involved in the education of mainstreamed exceptional children. Among project activities described are development of a workshop training…

THE MAIN PURPOSES OF THE PROJECT WERE TO DEMONSTRATE A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR HANDLING THE TEACHING OF CREDIT COURSES, TO DEMONSTRATE THE ADMINISTRATIVE SETUP NEEDED FOR ESTABLISHING PERMANENT ORGANIZED EDUCATIONAL TV PROGRAMS, TO DETERMINE THE COSTS OF OPERATION, AND TO ENLIST THE INTEREST OF PEOPLE NOT DIRECTLY CONCERNED WITH THE PROJECT. THE…

THE MAJOR PURPOSES OF INSERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION ARE (1) DISCUSSION AND EVENTUAL SOLUTION OF INDIGENOUS PROBLEMS, (2) PRESENTING NEW IDEAS AND METHODS OF TEACHING, (3) KEEPING UP TO DATE ON SUBJECT MATTER, AND (4) ORIENTING NEW TEACHERS, AND REORIENTING OLD TEACHERS TO NEW PHILOSOPHIES. THESE OBJECTIVES ARE CURRENTLY BEING MET BY INSTITUTES,…