WHEN JEFFERSON STATE JUNIOR COLLEGE OPENED IN 1965, 49 PERCENT OF ITS FACULTY WERE FORMER ALABAMA SENIOR COLLEGE PROFESSORS, 41 PERCENT WERE FORMER SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS, AND 10 PERCENT CAME FROM PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGES IN OTHER STATES. THIS VARIETY, PLUS THE SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ALABAMA JUNIOR COLLEGE SYSTEM, NECESSITATED A…

This second annual directory of in-service training programs was compiled by the Faculty Development Project of the American Association of Junior Colleges in cooperation with the Carnegie Corporation. It covers training workshops and short courses specially designed for professional improvement and refreshment of faculty and instructors at AAJC…

This document describes the East Caroline Islands lying in the Ponape District and the development of a Teacher Corps inservice program to aid public school teachers in professional development. Program objectives were to: (1) up-grade basic and professional skills of Micronesian interns; (2) implement a University Without Walls baccalaureate…

This monograph contains three papers on the subject of supervision. The first paper takes the view that supervision is one tier of the teaching profession. The author's model is based on the assumption that over a period of time one's teaching practice not only improves but also increases in dimension and scope. The stages of preparation,…

The purpose of Career Education Resource Laboratory (CERL) at Eastern Illinois University is to provide services to the 125 schools in the area and to the Division of Vocational and Technical Education at the University. During Phase 2 of the project the laboratory has presented 20 in-service workshops for area school districts; conducted…

A total of 256 ERIC 1973 and 1974 citations dealing with inservice teacher education was reviewed. Types of documents included project and research reports, syntheses of theory and research, precis of doctoral theses, program proposals, and evaluation studies. Programs to improve the teaching of reading and math to disadvantaged students were…

An inservice program was conducted to train 24 visiting teachers in group techniques and to furnish added guidance as they established groups of pupils with similar problems (e.g., truancy or discipline or poor self image) and worked with the parents and teachers of these pupils. Participants met in two groups for a series of 14 sessions on the…

To meet the needs of a totally integrated system in which students achieve at drastically different levels, Chapel Hill City Schools developed a 3-year plan to improve the ability of teachers to develop individualized instructional materials. In the first year of the program (1969-70) a teacher education staff was organized and employed to carry…

Institutional behavior can be seen as a dynamic balance between driving and restraining forces operating oppositionally. To shift the balance toward change in the 24 inner-city schools of the Model School Division, this experiment in innovation trained 300 District of Columbia public school teachers in new curriculum materials and methodologies…

This document introduces types and examples of inservice education which concentrate on the special competencies expected of supervising teachers. Thirty-five supervising competencies are outlined and individually explained as they relate to classroom procedures, relationships with the student teacher, responsibility of the student teacher,…

An experiment was conducted to determine the efficacy of a self-instructional inservice program in Flanders' system of interaction analysis. Subjects (teachers in nine elementary schools in Tennessee) audiotaped three 20-minute lessons in either mathematics or social studies each week of the 18-week study. The instructional treatment, a one-hour…

Growth of colleges, varying faculty experience, and program and student body diversity have accentuated the need for sound faculty orientation and in-service programs, especially where innovation, development, and use of new instructional media are stressed. After interviewing 11 faculty members at three colleges, the author has prepared 23…

In its Faculty Development Program, AAJC surveyed administrators to discover what in-service and other job-related programs now exist to encourage and help working teachers and to assess the availability and adequacy of continuing professional training. It covers only continuing or refresher studies for current faculty and staff, not pre-service…

This phase 1 of the project was conducted to develop and evaluate a new inservice education model. An elementary science curriculum, "Science--A Process Approach" (AAAS Science), provided content for the training program which makes use of video tapes, self-study programed text materials, and classes in which teachers use the AAAS…

This report attempts to establish some theoretical considerations dealing with the socialization process within workshop settings. The claim is made that the process of change is determined in part by the extent to which new role formation is achieved. Socialization theory is employed in an attempt to reconceptualize workshops in in-service…