The paper outlines a procedure of providing staff development designed to meet the needs of all educational personnel, including teachers, support personnel, administrators, and parents. The role of the Central Ohio Instructional Resource Center in staff development is examined, followed by a discussion of needs assessment methods (such as content…

An inservice program for doctoral composition specialists should train the teaching fellow to teach composition at a variety of levels, to administer writing programs, and to supervise writing clinics. It should also encourage teaching fellows to recognize the study and teaching of composition as fertile areas for research and scholarship and it…

The concept of staff development and continuous improvement for teachers and administrators is discussed in the context of a state-developed plan that allows teacher certification renewal only after participation in an approved local staff development program. The plan stipulates that local educational agencies identify student needs and…

A survey of fifty-one elementary school teachers in Chicago regarding their feelings about inservice meetings indicated that: (1) a majority of teachers believed that the objectives of such meetings were not clearly defined; (2) they reported that there was no follow-up or evaluation of the meetings; (3) they generally felt that the meetings were…

Attitude Change Title I (ACT I) was an effectiveness evaluation to determine what changes in semantic differential meaning accompanied Title I inservice teacher training, what differences in semantic differential meaning existed between teachers who did and did not have Title I training, and what relationships existed between personality…

The expansion of developmental reading programs into the secondary grades requires qualified and trained secondary reading teachers . This need is presently being met by local school districts through the operation of inservice training programs. The following observations of these programs are reported: (1) the secondary reading program is now…

This publication presents a suggested inservice training program for safety in the laboratory for secondary school science teachers. It consists of three parts. Part one discusses administrative guidelines. Part two consists of 14 lesson plans for lectures in the training course for teachers. Each of these lesson plans consists of an overview,…

This report on inservice education begins with an overview of the need for staff development programs. The districts contributing to this report offered their goals and objectives, their approaches to evaluation, and the new roles they see their teachers and administrative staff playing in education today. Chapter 1 contains a statement of the…

The project was conducted to test the assumption that there is a positive correlation between teachers' knowledge about career education and their attitudes toward using it in the classroom. The projected goal was to implement career awareness activities for teachers in an inservice program in order to promote teacher attitude change. Results…

Many universities and colleges have initiated faculty improvement programs which are directed at keeping the faculty intellectually rigorous, at encouraging the academic growth of individual professors, and at helping experienced teachers make adaptations to changes in student populations and institutional reorganization. This paper describes the…

This paper is concerned with objectives-based evaluation and alternative ways in which a system of objectives and test items might contribute to school programs. In the first study, teachers, parents, and students were involved in the needs assessment phase of educational evaluation with the use of behavioral objectives. All three were first asked…

This paper begins by reviewing current research on the merits and failings of various forms of inservice teacher education. Much of the research quoted stresses the need to consult teachers on their opinions of their educational needs. A study is described that assessed the current status and future directions for inservice activities as expressed…

This six-chapter study provides a summary of active programs that aim towards professional development of educational personnel, and it generates attributes of programs of professional development that would distinguish teacher centers from other types of programs. Chapter one provides information regarding the historical background of teacher…

Career Education poses a challenge for in-service education and requires management decision making from all the discipline areas and teaching levels. The major theme of this paper is that sound planning and management of a systematic in-service delivery system is basic to implementing career education. A planning format is presented for use in…

This plan for improving community college instruction uses an in-service training program as a primary vehicle for change. The objectives to be achieved are: (1) develop a climate for educational innovation, (2) develop individual initiative in professional growth, (3) coordinate training resources, faculty efforts, and college goals, and (4)…