Divorce American-style is becoming an ever-more-frequent event - with effects on children in school. This article confronts the issue from the viewpoint of the school counselor. (Editor)

Describes a course for inservice teacher education involving a transdisciplinary approach to environmental studies. (SH)

Problems raised by urbanization are many. Those whose solution can be assisted through adult education are in economics; health, nutrition, and family planning; citizenship training; recreation; and education and culture. (AG)

As a result of the need for a systematic approach to preservice and inservice training of administrative personnel a management academy program was initiated in the Dallas independent school district beginning in the spring of 1975. A comprehensive program was planned and implemented with a format designed to provide training for prospective…

The cost advantages of an in-hospital training program for nurses in coronary care were demonstrated by the experience of in-service trainers at North Central Kansas City Memorial Hospital, Missouri. (BP)

A teaching center at the University of Northern Colorado organized a series of metrication workshops. University personnel trained inservice teachers to serve as affiliate instructors for the workshops. (SD)

This study identifies the factors leading to the socialization of new principals. The study examined the identification of new principals, the socialization or learning processes that lead to the principal's professional development, the extent to which other principals (peers) play a part in that socialization, the extent to which the selection…

This manual is designed to help state and regional water supply training personnel conduct seminars for instructors of water plant operators. The purpose is to help state supervisors upgrade the quality of training given to the plant operators by their instructors. Since a survey indicated that operator training instructors are technically…

The costs of human resources consume a disproportionate percentage of the hospital's operating budget when compared to the operating budget of other industries. Within these costs two related issues--nursing shortage and nursing recruitment--are particularly relevant to development of nontraditional staff development roles. Traditionally, staff…

This study is divided into two parts. The first part is an overview of the literature on boards. This includes consideration of boards of directors of business corporations, of school boards, and of social service boards. The review assesses this literature in terms of its relevance for improving social service boards. Also included is a detailed…

Two sets of administrators (principals and superintendents) were asked if selected inservice education programs were being implemented currently in the respondents' schools and school systems and, secondly, what their perceptions were of the need for selected inservice education programs in the next five years. The study requested responses of a…

This guide is intended for use by those preparing to take the California certification examination for commercial pesticide applicators. The first chapter gives brief descriptions and illustrations of types of insect, vertebrate, plant, and microorganism pests. The other chapters cover pesticide classifications and formulations, labels and…

Each interpretation of staff development is derived from a particular theory of organizations and a particular understanding of educational and personal psychology. This paper outlines several organizational theories on which staff development might be based. Staff development is considered as being concerned with all those needs of the individual…