Part of the Omaha police in-service training program was devoted to innovative approaches to solving police department problems and improving community relations. The sessions were an attempt to use the brainstorming technique to elicit new solutions to everyday problems faced by the rank-and-file members of the police department. The report…

This study identifies similarities in the value hierarchies of elementary school teachers in four desegregated schools to determine if an inservice workshop in value clarification significantly changed the value characteristics of teachers, according to their rank ordering on the Rokeach Value Survey. Four Tempe, Arizona schools held three…

This document reviews the Senior Medical Consultant Program; a program designed to utilize recently or near-retired medical school faculty members in a continuing medical education program. Evaluation of the program by physician teachers, physicians attending the sessions, both attending staff and house staff, and by physicians scheduling the…

These guidelines for carrying out a teacher education and religion program were based on questionnaires filled out by the administrators of 15 pilot centers of the Teacher Education and Religion Project during the summer of 1956. The project was sponsored by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Its basic objective was to…

Since the inception of the Tanganyika Library Service in 1963, in-service training has been run for newly recruited library staff. All along, however, it has been difficult to find suitable reading material for the training programme. Hence the need for writing these notes. The notes have been written by senior members of the Tanganyika Library…

The article considers the problems of the technical competence of the engineering staff in industrial enterprises in Russia. The lack of adequately trained engineers has resulted in many negative effects on the quality and quantity of production. It is suggested that the larger industries should establish strong in-house training and educational…

This document is both a survey of inservice training practices for police officers in the State of Texas and a manual for use in the training and education of police officers. The survey indicates that continuous training for Texas peace officers is far from sufficient while the manual provides information on developing and improving inservice…

The purpose of the project was to develop a reality-based simulator with training materials as one component of preservice and inservice training programs for persons in leadership positions in public residential institutions for the mentally handicapped. In order to identify the responsibilities and problems of leadership personnel, site visits,…

This paper shows school districts how to establish and operate an individualized continuing education program for their administrators. The focus is on ICE programs designed and operated by schoolmen throughout the nation. The report includes the rationale for the ICE program, several program descriptions, a list of characteristics that…

This document is a report of a 1971 planning conference for the National Institute of Education planning unit. Three major themes were developed. The first theme indicated the need for the formation of teacher centers to meet the needs of teachers, suggest new options, couple teachers with available resources, and in doing so reinforce the notion…

The aggregate level of teaching effectiveness in a school division can be improved over a 5-year period if attention is paid to the administrative decisions of teacher selection, assignment, development, and retention/release. A model has been constructed with four behavioral dimensions: warmth, indirectness, cognitive development, and enthusiasm.…

The normal duties and responsibilities of school supervisors employed in 24 selected rural West Virginia school districts were determined through descriptive research methodology, and these duties and responsibilities were evaluated in terms of their importance to the supervision function. Questionnaires were sent to 38 supervisors; 34 were…

The information system for the Los Angeles City School District has been designed to provide relevant information in a readily available and concise manner. Equally important to the effectiveness of the information system, however, is that the decisionmaker have the capability to actually use the information. This report describes an in-service…

This handbook provides specific guidelines to supervisory activity which relate directly to the classroom work of teachers and youngsters. Chapters concern the principal and his involvement in curriculum psychological principles of learning as a guide to supervisory activity, sociological principles of education as a guide to supervisory activity,…

This report evaluates changes in teacher behavior resulting from a one-week orientation program. Teachers at School A attended an orientation program which stressed the problems of working with inner-city children and the resource personnel available to help them. Teachers from School B, a second inner-city school without an in-service program…