Authors summarize the benefits to be derived from a comprehensive in-service program and include a recommended organizational chart. (Authors/SP)

Student demands have brought significant innovation in the French educational system. The author comments upon the approaches which France is using in training its secondary school teachers. (Author/RK)

Describes how to use knowledge about adult learners and about different learning styles (environmentally, emotionally, sociologically, and physiologically) when planning and implementing staff development. (SR)

Discusses a teacher training program for secondary school English teachers. Part of the course would be to familiarize education students with many different philosophies of education, part would be a study of English educators who hold differing views on what should be taught in the English classroom. (Author/RK)

Strategies to develop creativity were given to high school teachers in a graduate course, Developing Creativity in Teaching. Higher degrees of creativity emerged when the groups used the instructor's clues to write a story and when group brainstorming and writing, as opposed to individual writing, were done. (Author/SJL)

In a graduate in-service course on creativity in teaching, an exercise in finishing a story was used to see if teachers scored better on three of Guilford's creativity traits (expressional fluency, elaboration, and originality) when working alone or in groups and when provided or not provided with clues. (SJL)

Describes an institute intended to familiarize teachers with the Middle East and Middle Eastern issues. (FL)

Because the literature substantiates that classroom teachers have negative attitudes toward vocational/technical occupations and votech students and that these attitudes influence pupils, an in-service workshop was developed to give teachers hands-on experience in an area vocational school, with votech students as their tutors. Teacher attitudes…