Describes design and implementation of a course for managers of the Weyerhaeuser Forest Products Company that emphasized leadership training to help managers face the company's changing focus. This four-week class focused on building unity of purpose and encouraging on-the-job application. (CH)

The Capital Area School Development Association (CASDA) of New York state offers a variety of programs including programs for inservice training of noninstructional school personnel. (MD)

Faculty training sessions from one hour to two weeks occur regularly at the Rochester Institute of Technology, National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Information sharing occurs via newsletters, interest groups, seminars, and demonstrations. The objectives, content, faculty experience, and evaluations from the one- and two-week faculty computer…

Describes staff development activities sponsored by the Rochester Area Career Education Council and Rochester Institute of Technology in cooperation with local industry and businesses. The activities involve structural visits and internships for professional staff in education. (JOW)

Recognizing the diversity in experience and training among teacher aides, the Yucaipa School District established a formal inservice program for this employee group. This article describes how the district developed a seminar program to help instructional aides in improving their skills. Reactions to the program were favorable. (Author/SJL)

One man recounts what he learned from returning to the elementary classroom after an absence of 24 years, during which he was an elementary principal, a director of elementary curriculum, a consultant, and a doctoral student. (IRT)

Describes an experimental effort in in-service administrator education that evolved from the literature on change and developed to meet the particular needs of the Swedish educational system. (Author/IRT)

Describes a project--"Curriculum: School Administration"--developed to fill the need for formal preparation of supervisory and school-level administrators. A prognosis for future developments is given along with the caution that it is too early to predict how training programs might become institutionalized. (Author/IRT)

When faced with budget cuts, a region of the District of Columbia public schools undertook a massive training program to make up for reduced supervisory services. (Author)

A school superintendent gave his board a competency test. The idea was to get the members to learn more about the uses of tests and to provide subjects for in-service programs for the members. A portion of the test is included. (IRT)

Claims that multimedia publishing will become an important part of the 1990's classroom and that impersonal technology can create a rich, collaborative learning environment. The author's successful educational media workshops were based on cooperative and self-directed learning, pride of authorship, and a scavenging approach to assembling…

The Greenwich (Connecticut) Public Schools have developed a six-step cooperative education training design: (1) an overview combined with hands-on experience; (2) training on work time; (3) inschool support; (4) visible and continuing district support; (5) expanded training opportunities to meet increased interest; and (6) development of training…

When teachers promote rote memorization as a single strategy, they foster only limited, short-term information retention. Elaboration strategies (creating analogies, paraphrasing, and summarizing) are stressed by the Cognitive Learning Strategies Project at the University of Texas. Includes three references. (MLH)

Since its 1980 sexual harassment guidelines went into effect, a vocational technical high school in Lexington, Massachusetts, has actively educated its staff and 700 students about sexual harassment. The program involves a discipline policy included in the school's "Handbook for Parents," a first-year seminar, staff inservice training,…

Thanks to a collegial training program conducted in their school's computer labs, teachers at a Sussex County, New Jersey, high school have grown comfortable with using computers for everything from lesson planning and recording grades to designing graphics and manipulating databases. A teacher-led committee developed the program, appointed…