Two plans were developed to provide in-service training to teacher aides in a large urban school district: one, an intensive program involving 30 hours of training divided into five all-day sessions or 12 shorter sessions; the other, a year-long program providing a series of 17 two-week modules from which teacher aides could choose. This paper outlines the specific topics dealt with in each of the all-day sessions in the intensive program and in each of the modules in the year-long program. The intensive program offered training in the teaching of phonics, reading, and children's literature; modules dealt with a wide range of concerns, including the role of the teacher aide, child and adolescent development, and techniques for teaching reading and the language arts. (GW)