This paper reports on the educational activities of NASA's Educational Program Division and its Aerospace Education Services Project. Recognizing the vast explosion of knowledge resulting from the activities of the Space Program, these organizations have provided lecture-demonstrations for students and teachers to enable them to understand the…

This volume, from a set of documents on planning for inservice teacher education, provides an overview of the process and a set of tasks in program planning. The primary function of the tasks is to assist staff in the articulation of fundamental principles and guidelines for site-specific inservice programs. The initial step is the establishment…

This booklet is part of a set of materials based on the belief that by getting teachers to agree on fundamental issues and values, a comprehensive program of inservice can be easily planned. This component of the set presents six generalizations about effective inservice programs and illustrates each with several different, but satisfactory,…

The individualization of instruction, (the IGE program), the built-in planning system which provides released time, and the curriculum coordination of the Instructional Improvement Committee increase the probability for the establishment of a cognitive, practical approach to learning. (Author)

Special education staff development activities in Maine are listed, and ways to serve Maine's rural areas are described. Long range goals in Maine's Comprehensive System of Personnel Development (as required by P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) are listed for collaboration, needs assessment, resource/data collection,…

The expectations of the Kentucky State Board of Education regarding a systematic plan for improving the professional performance of Kentucky public school system educational staff--nonacademic as well as academic--are set forth. A description of the plan is given. Methods for implementation of the Kentucky Plan into local school systems are…

Suggestions are made for developing a successful inservice course for credit. Advice is given for program coordinators, inservice councils, and instructors. Suggestions are also made for followup to ascertain if the competencies acquired during the course are being put to use in the classroom. (JD)

EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION MAY SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF TEACHER INSERVICE TRAINING. IN SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, 21 SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE COOPERATED IN PRODUCING A TEACHER INSERVICE PROGRAM. THE TELEVISION CENTER OF THE STATE COLLEGE PRODUCES AND DIRECTS THE TELECASTS. A COMMERCIAL TELEVISION STATION DONATES ITS FACILITIES AND AIR TIME. A PERMANENT…

PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO QUANTIFY BEHAVIOR CHANGES OF FOURTH, FIFTH, AND SIXTH GRADE MATH TEACHERS WHILE THEY WERE TAKING A 15-WEEK IN-SERVICE EDUCATIONAL TV COURSE, TAUGHT BY THE AUTHOR. 16 PAIRS OF TEACHERS WERE SELECTED FROM 6 DISTRICTS TO PARTICIPATE. 1 MEMBER OF EACH PAIR WAS CHOSEN BY LOT TO TAKE THE COURSE, AND THE OTHER AGREED NOT TO…

THIS PORTFOLIO CONTAINS A NUMBER OF ILLUSTRATED PLATES, EACH ONE HIGHLIGHTING A SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL. AMONG THE MATERIALS COVERED ARE CHALKBOARDS, BULLETIN BOARDS, GRAPHS, MODELS, AND CHARTS. IT IS FELT THAT THESE DEVICES ENCOURAGE CREATIVE THINKING IN THE CLASSROOM. A COMPANION BIBLIOGRAPHY CALLS ATTENTION TO RELATED MATERIALS. IT IS…