The BBC produced a series of ten half-hour ETV programs called "Teaching Adults," intended for anyone engaged professionally in adult education. The purpose of the series was to examine the basic differences between the learning processes of children and adults and to give examples of teaching techniques by showing a wide variety of…

The purpose of this project was to develop guidelines for teaching which would implement into the classroom some of what is known about learning. A booklet of suggestions was prepared in the first year of the project and a 30-hour training program to accompany the booklet was developed in the second year. During the second year of the project, the…

A perceived need for teacher inservice workshops aimed at developing the career education effort led to the holding of a Workshop on Workshops in Seattle, Washington, which produced this guide to the preparation and running of inservice workshops to acquaint teachers with career education concepts and with the integration of these concepts into…

A one-year staff development project was conducted to develop in teachers a knowledge and an acceptance of themselves as "persons who guide the learning of children as persons," and to train 20 exceptional teachers for leadership roles in the district. The summer workshop began with a 3-day encounter session which built group rapport and…

This cassette tape on staff attitudes toward educational change is one of a series designed to inspire inservice school personnel and provide them with basic information about school innovation. In this 20-minute tape, Allen outlines several principles of introducing and sustaining change in a school. His goal for a school is to achieve "critical…

This tape cassette on inservice teacher education is one of a series designed to inspire inservice school personnel and provide them with basic information about school innovation. Allen begins his 20-minute recording with the assertion that certification is not the end of teacher education even for well-trained teachers, simply because the field…

This tape cassette on team teaching is one of a series designed to inspire inservice school personnel and provide them with basic information about school innovation. In this 20-minute tape, Allen stresses that we need a more flexible notion of team teaching beyond the predictable versions of two or three teachers working together or of students…

The assumption that instructional responsibility is to be gauged and compensated for on the basis of the specialty of teaching tasks is the most unacceptable thesis of differentiated staffing because of the difficulty of determining the relative degree of importance of the various teaching roles (e.g., curriculum developer, applier of research,…

Project Interweave, a 3-year federally funded pilot project, not only provides inservice education for Illinois teachers in District 63, but also endeavors to train a number of teachers to assist participating schools with any type of inservice program. During the project's first year (1967-68), television lessons, which had been planned during…

This booklet is designed to render assistance to all educators engaged in planning in-service education sessions with their staff. Specifically, it offers a point of view on planning as a learnable activity and a reasonably complete how-to-do-it kit. The objectives of such an approach are to pinpoint specific planning difficulties associated with…

This report presents summary information on the provision of in-service training for university teachers in British institutions of higher education. The institutions were asked to supply information on: (1) the history of the training of university teachers in their institutions, including who makes the policy and how the policymakers were…

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE SUMMER SCHOOL WORKSHOP PROGRAM WERE (1) TO UPGRADE THE TEACHING OF SOCIAL STUDIES AS OUTLINED IN "THE SOCIAL STUDIES FRAMEWORK FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN CALIFORNIA," (2) TO STRENGTHEN LOCAL DISTRICT LEADERSHIP IN THE AREA OF SOCIAL STUDIES, (3) TO FOCUS UPON ORGANIZING CENTERS FOR UNITS OF WORK TAUGHT IN SUMMER…

The questions are raised about whether university professors in the field of education are close enough to the problems and needs of teachers to effectively conduct in-service workshops. (JD)

Suggestions are given for more interaction between physical educators and researchers. (PS)

Initial teacher preparation does not involve training for change. Therefore, inservice teacher education is important for diffusing, supporting, and sustaining the passage from reform to innovation. Implications of three models of inservice activity are analyzed and conclusions are discussed. (Author/MT)