To be fully responsive to principals' needs in the current period of decline and retrenchment, inservice education should provide school leaders the opportunity to confront and alter obsolete assumptions about effective leadership. (Author)

Study concerned with describing the training needs of extension specialists at 1890 institutions (black land-grant institutions established by a Congressional Act in 1890). Findings, training needs, recommendations and conclusions are included. (WL)

A professor of adult and community college education at North Carolina State University, Malcolm Knowles, expresses his views on adult learning in interview form. According to Knowles inservice management development and industrial training programs, as well as public school and college programs, require a process structure of learning…

A leadership approach applicable for counselors and guidance directors is presented. Videotapes of groups that were given leadership problems were informally studied and a number of dimensions identified that would help counselors in developing a leadership approach appropriate for their situations. (Author)

The statement of objectives three and four of the "Metrication in Delaware Schools" project are given along with an outline of the steps taken to meet these objectives. The objectives involve coordination of metric education efforts and inservice metric education for elementary and non-math and non-science secondary teachers. (MN)

Describes short-term training sessions for in-service cadres. The goal is to heighten consciousness of class struggle and meet needs of daily developments in the revolutionary situation. During the three-month rotation, the proportion of study to labor is two to one. (AV)

Provides supportive evidence for a concept (M. Scriven's) of formative evaluation as a method for ongoing improvement of educational programs (including continuing education) through a description of the development and modification of a workshop in rehabilitation nursing, based on formative evaluation procedures. (TA)

Notes that the National Geographic Society (NGS) has produced curriculum materials since 1972 and that its current catalog contains over 635 multimedia products for the K-12 curriculum. This article details the range of recent NGS activities which are designed to improve the teaching of geography at all grade levels. (JDH)

Peer coaching, teacher input, and focus on teaching improvement are important ingredients in an inservice teacher training program in a Palos Hills, Illinois, school district. Program goals and guidelines for training sessions and peer coaching teams are detailed. (CJH)

A training program for instructional materials selection has been implemented by the Florida Department of Education. Nine instructional modules and a trainer's guide have been developed and are used for training members of state and district level instructional materials councils. Reactions to the program have been positive. (MES)

The purpose of this study is to examine two large scale in-service training programs concerning Sweden's local school development. Specifically reports on relationship between centrally-introduced school reforms and response of local school management to those reforms. (BSR)

The author suggests teaching methods useful in helping adults apply their learning. Topics discussed include (1) performing practice audits, (2) emphasizing learning topics that participants want to pursue, (3) providing incentives and reducing resistance, (4) developing active learning methods, and (5) providing evaluation and reinforcement. (CH)

Cites statistics on death and injury from high school sports. Offers advice to coaches and athletic directors about safety consciousness, how to assess sports safety programs, and the advantages of employing certified athletic trainers. (MLF)

Fifty, secondary school English, mathematics, history, and science teachers participated in a content-area reading inservice program which lasted for two academic years. The study was designed to determine how the program influenced teachers' attitudes and concerns about, and knowledge and use of content reading instructional strategies. Results…

Reports on the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools' seminar on "Quality Leadership in Educational Administration" (St. Louis, Missouri, March 8-9, 1987). Identifies leadership qualities important in education, kinds of preservice and inservice training that produce good leaders, ways of nurturing/retaining good leaders, and means of…