The Los Angles County Office of Education developed the Educational Communications Network (ETN) to help implement English curriculum reform mandated by the California State Board of Education in 1987. ETN has become an electronic staff development distribution system using satellite-transmitted live and interactive inservice programing. (MLH)

Profiles Andre Allison and Florence Mondry, English teachers at Shoreham-Wading River High School (New York), who have placed composition at the center of their curricula, giving students more responsibility and fostering cooperative learning. Both use reading logs to help students interpret literature intelligently and extract meaning from their…

Naturalistic evaluation aims to portray a program holistically, summarizing and interpreting concerns and issues, and presenting consideration beyond the data from respondent and evaluation input. This article shows how this approach was used to evaluate certain Getty Institute Discipline-Based Art Education training programs. (MLH)

Describes Project Teach, a program to place volunteers in classrooms. Volunteers from more than 80 area businesses worked to fill hundreds of three-hour teaching slots so that elementary teachers could receive released-time computer training that the district could not have afforded otherwise. (MLH)

Describes a teacher induction program with four goals (1) to establish a support team; (2) to help new teachers develop skills and judgment; (3) to explore numerous teaching strategies; and (4) to provide inservice experiences for mentors. The program involves a personal development plan and special topic seminars. Includes 13 references. (MLH)

Today's staff developers are truly social architects aiming to build a culture of learning by transforming the workplace. When teachers and principals develop as caretakers of learning communities and as collaborators, problem seekers, action researchers, and designers of responsive student-centered curricula, then schoolwork will become more…

Describes an in-service writing project designed to teach writing across the curriculum to administrators of the Window Rock Public Schools. Lists the benefits the project will have toward the implementation of writing across the curriculum. Describes the collaborative efforts of those teaching in the project. (PRA)

Survey assessed the reasons why members of the National Therapeutic Recreation Society participated in continuing professional education. There were no significant trends, but representative information was obtained about the importance of the reasons themselves. Two of the most important reasons were professional service and professional…

A survey of 314 community nurses, midwives, and health visitors in Britain revealed the practitioners' need for continuing education to help them provide research-based instruction for learners preparing for community-health service. Most practitioners had to study on their own time at their own expense. (SK)

This paper aims to identify Taiwan HRD practitioners' perceived competency levels, and to evaluate the importance of 52 workplace learning and performance (WLP) competencies. The conceptual framework is adapted from the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) models for WLP conducted by Rothwell, Sanders and Soper (1999). The survey…

Recent studies have suggested that the professional training received by general educators does not adequately prepare them to properly implement inclusion-based practices. The idea of inclusion in practice has not significantly changed the situation of teaching pupils with special educational needs (SENs) in mainstream classes. This study's…

The purpose of this study was to identify science teachers' perceptions concerning the use of technology in science laboratories and identify teachers' concerns and recommendations for improving students' learning. Survey methodology with electronic delivery was used to gather data from 164 science teachers representing Texas public schools. The…

Teacher preparation to deliver inclusive services to students with disabilities is increasingly important because of changes in law and policy emphasizing student access to, and achievement in, the general education curriculum. This innovation configuration identifies the components of inclusive services that should be incorporated in teacher…

Recent international declarations stress the importance of partnerships between and amongst donors, the state and civil society, in order to improve service delivery and promote qualities of good governance, particularly in key sectors such as education. However, in conditions of state fragility--where high levels of distrust between and amongst…

In light of attempts to build a stronger appreciation for knowledge that is often constructed by the dominant Western culture's standards, this article focuses on the efforts to create agency among classroom teachers who teach in rural Alaskan schools. In discussions around the theories of assessment--the focal point of a summer course examined…