This article examines the results of an online national survey of K-12 educators who attended a series of GIS training workshops conducted by the authors between 1998 and 2004. Data from the self-report survey (N = 186) suggest new information about potential changes in instruction and assessment patterns following GIS training. The survey…

This article addresses the question as to whether training pre-school practitioners in an approach to anti-discriminatory education can impact on the developing attitudes of young children. This article attempts to analyse the effect of training practitioners in the delivery of an anti-discriminatory curriculum on the developing attitudes of the…

This article focused on the training needs of serving teachers for the enhancement of school performances. It sought to achieve this by involving a selected group of teachers and head teachers in the completion of a questionnaire. The questionnaire was reinforced by interviews conducted on a few teachers and head teachers. The study concluded that…

If principals are responsible for implementing educational reforms, then criteria for effective leadership skills should be developed. This paper considers criteria for identifying effective principals and proposes a training and appraisal system. The paper discusses five domains that identify effective principals: (1) vision, (2)…

Background/Context: This is the first research study to examine the content basis of Payne's in-service teacher education program, A Framework for Understanding Poverty, though others who have reviewed the book have agreed with our analysis. The study took place within a policy context in which the federal government, with the passage of the No…

The author visited the institutes for teacher education in the Soviet Union. (SD)

The professional development of teachers is seen as a key to improving instruction in mathematics. A position paper on Professional Development Programs for Teachers of Mathematics was endorsed by the Board of Directors of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in April 1985, and this handbook provides suggestions for implementing the…

Teachers, supervisors, and administrators need to have perspectives pertaining to the future in a quality reading program. A forward looking reading program emphasizes the following aspects: (1) starting instruction where each student presently is in achievement; (2) teaching diverse word recognition techniques; (3) increasing the purpose for…

Chapter 1 of this book, "Stimulating Educational Change Through Inservice Teacher Education," deals first with the conditions, the elements receptive to, and the mechanics of change, and then discusses the cooperative responsibilities of colleges, state departments of education, professional organizations, and local school districts for inservice…

Project EFFECT is a program for implementing educational change that is currently being used by the St. Louis Board of Education. After initial inservice training, the faculty of a school develops a plan for improving the school program. Subsequent phases are outlined for the inclusion of parental advice, implementation of the program, and…

The Northern Kentucky In-Service Innovation Center Project was established to provide in-service education opportunities for professional staff members through laboratory schools with satellites for use as demonstration sites, staff visitation, use of consultants, video tape services, and clinics. The overall focus of these in-service activities…

Herein are discussed descriptive findings from the educational literature on the question of what variables appear important in changing traditional in-service training procedures. The question of the content versus the process of in-service training, important problems in in-service training programs, and implications of the important problems…

The Center for Education Professions (CEP) coordinated contacts between the University of Wisconsin's College of Education and the public and private schools of the La Crosse area. The synchronization was accomplished through the grouping of 23 multiunit area schools into a network called "Area Movement for Educationally New Dimensions" (AMEND).…

This article discusses the implementation of classroom organization projects examined by the Rand Corporation's Change-Agent Study. (RC)

An inservice project involving twenty-four teachers during the 1976-1977 school year is described. The project includes focus on familiarity with the metric system, manipulating weights and measures, and first-hand knowledge of published texts stressing metrification. (MN)