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 in-service education training programs and to suggest alternatives to "doing the same unsuccessful things over and over again with a hope that something worthwhile might occur." Since the booklet is aimed at several different types of in-service educators--those who are inexperienced, unsuccessful, successful but dissatisfied, disorganized, overworked, rushed--suggestions are made as to where each type should begin in the booklet. Further instructions for use of the booklet are given, and these are followed by a series of transparencies presenting information necessary for properly planning an in-service session and discussions of the transparencies. (Author/DDO)