In the countries of the Third World, the urgency and the immensity of the need for staff trained in the care of the mentally handicapped calls for the formulation of training programs which can be rapidly and realistically implemented, but which can still be integrated into medium and long term programs. Journal availability: see EC 133 861.…

Reports results of an evaluation of an NSF-supported inservice course for intermediate-grade and junior-high school teachers who teach physical science. The evaluation describes the relationship of teacher implementation and student perception of the instructional practices advocated in the inservice course with student achievement. (CS)

Suggestions for a variety of nontraditional inservice programs for teachers, parents, and professionals in education are offered and discussed. (JMF)

Discusses the development and maintenance of a competent student affairs staff. A brief review is made of the trends in higher education. Current competencies of most student affairs professionals and the status of graduate student personnel preparation programs in meeting these needs are discussed. (Author)

Notes some past and present recruitment and training programs, and argues that if the public broadcasting system is to reach its potential, the industry must invest more resources in the recruitment and nurturing of talent. (CMV)

The issue of academic advising is crucial to American higher education today. Studies have shown that academic advising is perceived as unsatisfactory by many students. A strategy for training advisors should include an adequate reward system, a viable in-service training program, and a developmental approach to advising. (Author)

Reports that teachers exhibit a stable degree of persistence in utilizing selected elementary and secondary NSF science curricula in the western United States. Differences between teachers trained in the NSF curricula and a control sample indicate that elementary workshop participants tended to utilize NSF-sponsored curricula longer than did…

Parental involvement in education is shown to extend to the areas of teacher education with recommendations for greater preservice preparation for dealing with parents and planning for staff development with cooperative programs for parents and teachers. (JMF)

A study of 121 administrators' and regular and resource teachers' preferences regarding in-service training, cooperative planning, and resource programs for handicapped children was undertaken using an open ended Delphi-type questionnaire and a second, forced choice questionnaire. (PHR)

Contains a selection of abstracts from the ERIC system concerning management development programs in community colleges. (MB)

The teachers of the future will be members of a team, with preparation beginning at the teacher aide level, then to part-time employment with teaching teams, then preservice education and inservice continuing education. (MB)

Reviews what universities are doing to help community colleges improve their instruction, including research, faculty preparation, graduate study for instructional leadership, workshops, outreach programs and services, and dissemination of information. (JDS)

Components of this inservice model are: Orientation (concept introduction; potential resource exploration; and organizing and planning for instruction); Practicum (conducting summer school program; organizing, planning, and revising instruction; considering classroom adaptations; and preparing instructional materials); Implementation (development…

Describes a workshop for elementary science teachers which stresses elementary understanding of the science subject matter to enable teachers to discover methods of conveying understanding to their students. (SL)

Article is a description of the development and operation of the Center for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Texas at Austin. (RW)