The authors were asked to provide in-service training for teachers in an elementary school on an experimental basis. This was the first time the district has offered such training in a single school for faculty of that school. Twenty-two of the twenty-seven teachers at the 800 pupil elementary school in Spring Valley, New York were enrolled in an…

A carefully planned inservice education system should contain the following components: (1) Introduction: Committee Involvement. The system should be developed by a committee representative of the various levels of personnel who participate in the program and selected by prospective participants. (2) Philosophy. The inservice program should be…

The 13 documents discussed in this annotated bibliography are primarily concerned with inservice programs for administrators but some coverage of inservice programs for teachers is included. (IRT)

Outlines the failure of traditional staff development programs and theorizes that the crucial issue in staff development concerns the problem of educational authority: Who makes what decisions and how? Successful models for staff development programs should have personal, organizational, and political foci. (JMF)

Comments on the Inner London Education Authority Center for Language in Primary Education. Discusses its development, its facilities, the attitudes of both teachers learning and the staff at C LPE, and the variety of newsletters it produces. (Editor/RK)

Analyzes the needs and concerns of junior high school and middle school teachers for the purpose of giving direction to in-service activities. Offers three recommendations for improving inservice activities for junior high school and middle school teachers. (Author/RK)

Describes programs that have arisen since the Pennsylvania state board authorized local school districts and intermediate units to organize inservice programs that can provide the coursework necessary for permanent certification and for Master's Equivalency Certificates. (Author/IRT)

Describes a center for the professional growth and development of the Vancouver, B.C., school system teaching and administrative staff. The center was created out of an abandoned school annex. (Author/DN)

Discusses the nutrition education program in Massachusetts schools, and the inservice teacher workshops for the training of elementary school teachers in nutrition education. (JR)

Discusses how to plan inservice programs for teachers. (RB)

This is a summary of the report issued by the President's National Advisory Council on Education Professions Development which states that the most potent and creative staff available will be required to meet the demands placed on the community college by society. (RN)

Describes an Ed.D. thesis at Cornell University which is In-Service Education for New York Teachers of Agriculture in Specialized Instructional Area of Agricultural Mechanization." (GB)

This article examines federal policy in the context of professional development and in-service education for school personnel. (MM)

A two-week summer institute for teachers and administrators of kindergarten and grade 1 gifted children is described. The purpose of the Institute was to plan strategies for meeting the needs of the young gifted and talented children in their classrooms, schools, or districts. (Author)