Since its inception in 1974, the Staff Development Program at Oakton Community College (Illinois) has been responsible for over 44 seminars, workshops, mini-courses, and guest speakers. Initially, modules (as given workshops are called) were generated by and for faculty alone. In fall 1975, however, the Staff Development Program became operational…

The purpose of the inservice education program is to help local inservice coordinators plan and conduct effective inservice programs for teachers and other instructional staff who will be using curriculum materials (teacher's guides) developed at the center for vocational education. The intent of the program is to provide an orientation to career…

California State University, Chico (CSU, Chico) has had a teacher center program underway for two years. By coupling the concept of centers with the traditional California requirement of a fifth year of professional training for preservice teachers CSU, Chico has designed, within a 70-mile radius of the campus, 14 teacher training centers, each…

This publication describes the history, setting, governance, objectives, and programs of the Mercer County Teacher Education Center. It is stated that the center is a consortium of a local school system, two colleges, and the West Virginia Department of Education and is designed to enhance the implementation of effective teacher preparation…

This study discusses innovation in the inservice education and training of teachers (INSET) in Sweden. Section I presents some information regarding background and the present situation of INSET in Sweden. Section II examines five case studies. These are: coordination of INSET and policy-oriented educational research and development; study days…

This paper describes and analyzes different types of inservice training available for early childhood education programs to help directors select the inservice training best suited to their programs. It is suggested that early childhood education programs are at one of three levels of development: initial adjustment stage, operational stage, and…

This manual, the culmination of a demonstration project, is designed to aid school districts in adopting the microteaching minicourse as an inservice education program for improving specific behavioral skills of teachers. The introductory section describes the microteaching minicourse sequence of viewing an instructional and a model film, teaching…

This proposal suggests staff programs for implementing better cultural and racial relations in an integrated school system in Burke County, North Carolina. Specifically, new instructional challenges for interracial classrooms, such as inclusion of black history and culture, are studied. Also, ways to involve staff in new understanding and skills…

The reading habits of inservice elementary school teachers were surveyed through questionnaires administered in the summers of 1966 and 1972. The present study examined the findings of the two surveys for differences and possible inferences. Answers were sought to such questions as what magazines other than professional education journals were…

This study was designed to discover the extent to which school districts provided inservice education for their secondary school teachers of English from the fall of 1969 through the 1971-72 academic year, to determine if inservice consisted of continuous, process-oriented growth experiences structured primarily to benefit the teaching of English…

The Chilean Ministry of Education is using thirty language laboratories for inservice training for teachers of English and French. Training seminars for language lab monitors are described; they included instruction in equipment use, intensive practice, training in linguistic trends and lab methodology. Distribution and use of laboratories is…

The article reports the statistical results of a teacher survey concerning inservice training needs and draws a number of generalizations, among them the need for (1) training in the affective domain and in individualizing instruction, (2) differentiated training within inservice settings, and (3) including teachers in defining needs and in…

A report by the Educational Resources Information Center at the National Council of Teachers of English; ERIC Abstracts are included for documents cited. (Author)

Based on responses from 268 classroom teachers and 58 speech-language pathologists, a regional inservice training program was designed to meet the needs of professionals working with hearing impaired children. (SB)

Argues that the responsibility for the productivity of teachers must be shared by preservice institutions, professional teachers' associations, the school, and the individual teacher. Lists in-service activities used in a specific school district and presents a brief account of a review of reading-related language activities undertaken in that…