Moral education takes thorough preparation. Prepackaged programs are no substitute for well-qualified teachers. (Author)

Only a cooperative approach to teacher growth can effectively satisfy the compelling need to retrain and upgrade existing personnel. (Author)

A training model for prospective teachers of cooperative learning involves teachers creating a cooperative classroom for themselves in a workshop setting. The model combines experience, perception, cognition, and behavior. (MLF)

Montana State University developed a unique way to solve the problems of the state's teachers who are separated by great distances and lack in service opportunities during the school year for sharing ideas and skills. They developed teleconferencing as a skill teachers used for coaching and supporting each other in new teaching strategies. (MD)

A new typology suggests staff development guidelines for helping educators work more effectively with ethnically and racially diverse groups of students. (Author)

Discusses the importance of teaching centers as a means of bridging the gap between theory and practice in education. (GB)

The Cognitive Levels Matching Project trains teachers to guide students' skill acquisition and problem-solving processes by assessing students' cognitive levels and adapting their teaching materials accordingly. (MLF)

A K-8 computer literacy program in Alexandria, Virginia, schools calls for the use of computers in language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. The history, concepts, process, and applications of computers are taught. Teachers also receive training in computer literacy in a course taught within the school system. (MLF)

A 1981 national survey revealed that members of both the Council of Professors of Instructional Supervision and the National Staff Development Council strongly supported the Readiness, Planning, Training, Implementation, and Maintenance (RPTIM) Model for designing inservice programs for professional educators. Support was also high for the…

Delineates a model staff development program based on adult learning theory and requiring both specified instructional techniques applied in structured and flexible ways and the provision of follow-up support through clinical, on-site supervision. (PGD)

Reviews the range of contextual factors, possible content orientations, training models (from one-day overviews to courses offering three college credits), and follow-up mechanisms that must be considered by administrators who have committed their districts to providing inservice programs to develop teachers' computer literacy. (PGD)

Stress management can help teachers to identify stressors, find ways to deal with them, provide support for each other, and increase their self-esteem. (Author/JM)

Maintains that if progress in teaching writing has bogged down, the reason is a lack of teacher involvement in effective in-service programs. (Author)

Present technology provides the means to generate teacher centers in which we can continuously work to expand our range of competence and test the single proposition on which we rest our case. (Author)

In 1982-83 the St. Paul, Minnesota, schools introduced computers using LOGO programs into the system. Research shows that, as a result, half the students improved in academic performance, and low-achieving students improved at the same rate as other students. MD)