Author describes an operational rationale for broadening the local director's information base before final consultant selection, as well as a programmatic design for the most effective utilization of the visiting consultant once he arrives at the training site. (Author/CB)

Results of an inservice training program for preschool teachers and health coordinators to encourage the classroom teaching of preventive dental health measures. (SP)

Chemistry Teaching Associate Program brings chemistry teachers from high schools to a university campus and treats them as college faculty members. Intensive cooperation among professors, teachers, and graduate assistants has resulted in the revision of undergraduate curriculum and stronger pre-service programs. (PS)

The Cooperative Education Service Agency, Atlanta, Georgia, discussed in this article, focuses on making staff development activities not only available, but meaningful and relevant. (Author/CB)

Article describes the activities of Region XII Education Service Center which is providing educational services, learning and teaching materials, and pertinent information and technology for flexible practices adaptable to local and regional conditions anywhere in the twelve-county Central Texas area. (Author/CB)

Discusses fledgling field of elementary guidance, ways in which it differs from secondary guidance, and ways in which counselors can make programs more meaningful for themselves, students and parents. (CJ)

Reports on the progress of an inter-consultant program involving Indiana University and the Monroe County Schools, Indiana. In this program a doctoral student in science education works during the course of an academic year with teachers of a particular school. The program appears to be effective in bringing about change in elementary school…

Discusses shortcomings in measuring results, training methods, and management interest in management and supervisory training and suggests how to make training more effective. Training Technology is a quarterly supplement to Educational Technology Magazine. (GR)

Institutionalization of training within the university seems to have been the key to professionalization, and those areas which first were regarded as graduate" subjects -- medicine, divinity, and law -- early came to be looked upon as professions. (Author)

Describes a program in cross cultural training for the American businessman about to go on foreign assignment which should increase employee effectiveness when serving outside one's own country or when working with minority groups within the United States." (Author/DR)

The Agricultural Education Department at Nebraska developed a graduate course to help beginning teachers cope with problems during the first year of teaching. (GB)

Describes the program and some results of an institute for selected teachers and administrators from four area school systems, held during a six week period in the spring of 19709 (JM)

As a method of advancing educational theory the article suggests several ways of involving teachers in research. The marriage of teaching and research at all levels is felt to be important for the science of education because of the practical experience which the teacher can bring to the research institutes. It is also argued that the two…