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 of a planning committee, charged with the task of determining the present state of inservice education in the target school. Its major activity is to conduct a series of workshops for target teachers to give them a sense of participation and to elicit ideas on what the inservice program should be like. From this input, and from the agendas, mandates, and constraints of participating agencies, the committee can then propose principles and guidelines for an inservice plan. A fourteen-step process for plan development is presented. Appendices present eight tasks to be completed in the workshop, a bibliography of literature on inservice education, and transparency masters and script for a slide show presentation. (MJB)