This paper describes the five teacher education learning centers developed by the University of Maine at Portland-Gorham to integrate theory and practice in teacher education, to shape responsibility for teacher preparation, to better utilize university and school resources, to provide inservice teacher education, and to extend individualized…

This paper describes an inservice program at Lenoir Rhyne College that is designed to improve the professional quality of cooperating teachers, aid the college in continuing a program in formative evaluation with the goal of improving designs for professional laboratory experiences, and enrich the student teacher's insight into his own growth…

The purpose of this paper is to present an inservice training program designed to give teachers three groups of selected skills which are useful in an individualized setting: a) recognition and reinforcement of children's self-management skills, b) identification and reinforcement of children's task performance skills, and c) teacher…

This document is divided into four sections, each an announcement of an event related to teacher education. The first section is a discussion of in-service education with a brief description of the book "Improving In-Service Education (1971)," edited by Louis Rubin. Section two is a description of the University of Bridgeport's Multiple…

GRADES OR AGES: Masters program. SUBJECT MATTER: In-service Teacher Education, varied topics. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: Each course listing provides a statement of specific and general objectives, a brief description, and a method of evaluation. OBJECTIVES: Course objectives are listed individually. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS: None…

This module was originally designed for use in a 75-minute workshop session, but it can be adapted for use in other situations. The long range objective calls for participants to use techniques for assessment and training which will take into account individual differences in teachers, such as, interests, abilities, learning styles, and…

This exercise simulates the planning of a differentiated staffing prospectus for a high school. The objectives are 1) to develop a program of differentiated staffing based on educational needs; 2) to identify critical organizational variables; 3) to experience the difficulties of group decision making; and 4) to develop a training strategy. The…

This Project for Systems of Individualized Instruction is intended to develop a teacher and administrator inservice program to facilitate role changes necessary for teachers in transition from group-paced to individualized instruction. Other objectives include the development of a parent information and orientation program, and the development of…

The teaching clinic is a group of teachers and supervisors working together in an organized way to assist each group member to improve his teaching skills. It consists of five phases: the Planning Session, Observation Session, Critique Preparation Session, Critique Session, and Clinic Review Session. The suggested time for the complete sequence is…

This is a report on the third phase of Project IN-STEP, which was intended to develop a viable model for individualized, multi-media in-service teacher education programs. (Phase I and II are reported in ED 033 905, and ED 042 709). The rationale for Phase III was to see if the model could be successfully transferred to an area other than teaching…

This study investigated selected problem areas in student teaching experienced by teachers of academic and nonacademic subjects. The Student Teacher Problems Inventory (STPI) was administered to 270 secondary education student teachers in the last week of their student teaching experience. The mean scores for each of the problem areas were…

This report details program methods for training teaching professionals, selecting partner schools as training institutions for student teachers, and setting up laboratories to correlate theory and application. It describes a training program for classroom specialists and an undergraduate program of instruction for teacher trainees. The classroom…

The expanding role of educational technology is discussed, and a rationale is put forward for an integrated approach to its use in teaching. The effect of the increased potential of educational technology on the initial training and the inservice training of teachers is examined. A model for the organization of an audiovisual resource center and a…

This document gives the rationale for the content and method of five teacher and teacher-aide training workshops. Results of a questionnaire confirmed the need for improvement in in-service training in the entire Appalachian area and also indicated the kinds of changes needed. Deficiencies in content were identified as: 1) application of…

This report reviews the proceedings of the First Asian Conference on Teacher Education held in Bangalore, India, June 1971. The theme of the conference was teacher education and social change. Four aspects of this theme were covered including a) modernization as a process and social ideal, b) socio-economic change and education, c) national goals…