This study discusses innovation in inservice education and training of teachers (INSET) in the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland. The first section deals with the INSET program in relationship to each country's educational system. Section two describes three case studies. They include INSET during a six-month period at a teacher training…

The article provides four checklists of tasks which the curriculum worker in vocational education should master: (1) coordination of curriculum planning and development, (2) definition and application of curriculum theory, (3) designing and applying curriculum research, and (4) providing for in-service needs of the staff. (MW)

This volume contains one of the four sets of materials produced for training science supervisors in educational technology. It contains a script and a black and white copy of each photographic slide used in five coordinated audio-tape and slide presentations. Audio-tapes and slides are not included with this report. The "curriculum…

This annual report provides an overview of the major activities of the Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL) for the fiscal year ending November 30, 1971. Three major areas of concentration are a) systems for training education personnel, b) in-service staff training, and c) inquiry oriented instructional systems. Systems for…

The Los Angles County Office of Education developed the Educational Communications Network (ETN) to help implement English curriculum reform mandated by the California State Board of Education in 1987. ETN has become an electronic staff development distribution system using satellite-transmitted live and interactive inservice programing. (MLH)

This paper aims to validate a theoretical model for developing teacher collective learning by using a quasi-experimental design, and explores the management strategies that would provide a school administrator practical steps to effectively promote collective learning in the school organization. Twenty aided secondary schools in Hong Kong were…

This paper presents the rationale, development and application of "Unplugged', a new school programme for the prevention of substance abuse, which is based on the comprehensive social influence approach (CSI). The programme was developed, implemented and evaluated by a cross-disciplinary group of experts in the frame of a multi-centre study…

The report describes activities of the American Academy of Pediatrics under a 1-year grant to evaluate the effectiveness of a child abuse curriculum for physicians and other health professionals. It is explained that the evaluation was conducted through a series of eight workshops based on the curriculum materials. Project results are reported in…

This handbook provides specific guidelines to supervisory activity which relate directly to the classroom work of teachers and youngsters. Chapters concern the principal and his involvement in curriculum psychological principles of learning as a guide to supervisory activity, sociological principles of education as a guide to supervisory activity,…

Explains how an Illinois school district was forced to develop a plan for writing an entire district curriculum in one day and how the plan was effectively carried out. The approach is not presented as a model for emulation but, rather, as an example of what can be done with limited resources. (MD)

Describes an interactive television educational delivery system connecting three small schools in rural Iowa. (MD)

An instructional design team, composed of experts in nursing, education, and media production, is used at the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing, Madison, to produce instructional units for a new curriculum. The authors summarize steps of team/faculty communications, team methodology, and factors influencing the team's effectiveness. (EA)

Describes five steps which instructors at Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation follow in preparing one-hour training courses on engineering assurance procedures. (CMV)

Presented is a description of the activities of a metric education project. Activities included but were not limited to: inservice teacher education, public awareness and consumer education, and establishment of a regional metric center. Among the attachments are the outline for the training sessions, the demonstration inventory of materials, and…