Argues that teachers and principals can improve the quality of their schools by working cooperatively in the selection of new staff. (FL)

Discusses the Education Renewal Center (ERC), a self-supporting, "do-it-yourself" graduate school set up by Lamar (Colorado) School District for southeastern Colorado educators. Describes ERC's beginnings, teacher recertification credit, unexpected benefits, and courses for expanding horizons and building skills. Offers tips for starting…

Insights from noted high school publications advisers on how they keep pace with the changes in their profession and on what methods they have used successfully. (RL)

Describes a comprehensive staff development program for secondary teachers incorporating workshop sessions, peer observation, post-observation conferences, and classroom experimentation. Discusses the selection of classroom management, instructional activity sequencing, and teacher expectations as training topics and comments on training process…

Outlines the content and training methods used in the Program for Effective Teaching (PET), the successful staff development program of Newport News (Virginia). PET promotes application of five instructional skills: selecting learning objectives, teaching to the objectives, establishing learner focus, monitoring learner progress, and enhancing…

The author analyzes and provides an operational definition of the faculty's role in doctoral-level, competency-based training programs in special education supervision. (SB)

A study attempted to identify criteria used to assess faculty development programs in community colleges and to describe the extent to which these colleges believed the evaluation standards were being met. Extensive conclusions are drawn and recommendations are made. The appendix contains the survey questionnaire. (JN)

Four contributors (1) discuss a rationale that would enable English departments to maintain a balance between publishing and perishing, (2) argue for the small colleges relinquishing their publish-or-perish policies, (3) examine the benefits of writing for alternative audiences, and (4) explore limitations on scholarly publishing. (AEA)

Just five years ago the National Diffusion Network seemed moribund, but it has survived to become the most important force in staff development of teachers nationwide. (Author)

Suggests activities that reading staff developers can use to "unfreeze" staff members, building an interest in and a state of readiness for the program steps to be discussed. The suggested activities call for the active mental and physical involvement of staff members. (GT)

Teachers must be an integral part of the inservice education planning process if it is to be important to professional growth. When planning issues are seen as important, inservice education should focus on planning and classroom design. The second correlation is weighted on inquiry and concept development. (JAC)

Discusses the need for faculty development programs in library schools and examines some aspects of instructional development, microteaching, curriculum development, organizational development, and personal development as components in formulating such programs. (FM)

The steps involved in evaluating college faculty are discussed, including the decision making on the focus, evaluation design, criteria, data collection processes, material review, and committee formation. (JMF)

Criticizes the type of inservice training and administrative supervision found in community colleges where standards are established by nonteaching administrators who are more interested in management than pedagogy. Argues that the inservice activities developed by these administrators should be monitored by discipline-oriented professional…

Summarizes discussions concerning six distinct issues of English teacher preparation, which were first delineated by the National Council of Teachers of English. Notes three additional issues that merit English teacher educators' careful attention: professional image, special preparation to serve "new" clienteles, and external control of the…