A program of inservice teacher training for vocational educators is a must to meet the needs of the increasing numbers of students entering vocational schools. (CK)

Structuring the classroom on an economic model allows students to have responsibilities for "routine" daily tasks. Students are paid in "scholar dollars" and teaching time normally lost to such tasks becomes restructured into learning time. Includes a brief bibliography. (MD)

Presents 10 guidelines that staff developers can utilize when assisting teachers in teaching thinking skills to students. Provides guidelines for both practical and theoretical guidance for developing workshop materials, conducting training sessions, and conducting follow-up activities. (AH)

Humorously reports two failed attempts to give inservice information on teaching writing in content areas. (JL)

Measures of teacher concerns such as the Concerns-Based Adoption Model, a conceptualization of the way concerns of individual teachers change as they become familiar with and involved in new programs, can be helpful in inservice training for teachers of gifted students. Implications for inservice include the conclusion that change is a personal…

The article presents the Special Education Needs Assessment Priorities model which establishes training priorities for both regular and special educators. The model consists of four stages: identification of competencies, development of discrepancies, setting training priorities, and resource allocation. (SB)

Offers practical suggestions for teacher involvement in the planning of staff development programs. Teachers, as members of the staff development committee, should participate in identifying and ranking needs and designing a plan of action. (Author/WD)

Compares many teacher inservice programs to the artificial insemination of cows--decisions are made without teacher participation, teachers do not get to join in the act, and no one has much fun. Suggests that teachers be allowed to set their own goals and control their own learning. (Author/WD)

Three articles comprise a section on personnel preparation in vocational education. Articles deal with two inservice programs in career/vocational education for the handicapped and a project to train paraprofessionals to assist special educators in vocational education. (CL)

Offers four examples of teacher growth as reasons for optimism in the future of the English profession. (RL)