A handbook of information for faculty going on sabbatical or leave is presented, based on several personal experiences with planning, completing, and returning from sabbaticals. Eleven chapters are as follows: (1) applying for a sabbatical; (2) where to go and for how long; (3) can you afford it (e.g. taxes); (4) renting your house (must you rent,…

Member institutions of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education were surveyed to determine the nature and extent of faculty development activities. Responding institutions placed 27 specific developmental activities in rank order. The top five items were a system of sabbaticals, teaching awards, peer review, professional travel,…

Seven videotapes of teachers teaching under the eye of trained teacher advisers and discussing their efforts with the advisers, coupled with interviews with the teachers and advisers involved, provided researchers with information on effective adviser-teacher relationships. The seven videotaped conferences selected for analysis involved advisers…

The use of a practicum form of training for faculty advisers is discussed. Understanding the advising process may be viewed as a transaction between master adviser (advising mentor) and faculty adviser. Likewise, the understanding can be replicated in the interaction between faculty adviser and student advisee. Using the practicum setting to help…

This report presents an evaluation of an individualized professional development program, the Professional Support Program, created at the Reading Area Community College (RACC) in Pennsylvania to provide a climate within which academic faculty and professional staff may enrich their personal and professional capacities to teach students…

A study was conducted to investigate the organization and structure of faculty development programs in selected Texas community and junior colleges, and to develop faculty development models based on the quantitative and qualitative findings of the study. Interviews were conducted with seven deans of instruction or equivalent college…

The paper describes the changing preservice teacher education structure instituted at the State University College of Arts and Sciences at Potsdam, New York to comply with the trends dictated by P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Ten competency clusters are listed as the basis for the regular teacher education program,…

This document reports the findings of a survey-based descriptive assessment study undertaken in 1977 to obtain systematic feedback on the magnitude, nature, and effectiveness of instructional computing as it is being employed on the University of Iowa campus. Included in the report are a description of the survey procedures employed, an overview…

Although effective faculty development programs rely heavily on evaluation and instructional techniques related to speech communication, very few faculty development centers have utilized the expertise of speech communication professionals. Speech communication professionals can do five things to improve their profession and to use their…

This narrative report on the development phase of the Program on Man, Technology, and Society (MTS), which was established at Saint Louis University in 1974 with the aid of a 5-year curriculum development grant, provides an overview of the original plan and a survey of the program as now established, with an analysis of the extent to which MTS, as…

A survey of colleges and universities reports on current faculty development programs in higher education and how they are dealing with issues such as funding, organization, voluntarism, and programs to encourage faculty improvement. (JMF)

Preparing teachers for mainstreaming is discussed by describing the necessary changes in the regular classroom teacher role and the roles of other school staff members and by considering the issues and problems that must be resolved by teacher educators. (JD)

The central features of a school's or college's planned effort to bring about constructive change and stabilization are discussed. (JD)

Teacher centers are defined and discussed as important components of secondary school teacher renewal. (MM)

Reasons for college experimentation with planning methods of employee development are analyzed. Alternatives involved in designing an individual development planning process for a specific institution are described, and speculation is offered about the characteristics of the most effective approaches. (LBH)