An analysis is presented of the effectiveness of a summer workshop conducted for elementary school teachers on providing drug education for their students. Teaching teams from fourteen different schools completed workshop training and returned to their schools to implement a drug education program. While the workshop did not give schools a…

Describes a two week workshop which concentrated on involving teachers in action oriented aerospace activities and sharing ideas and materials for the application of aerospace concepts in the classroom. Research was also done to see if participants' attitudes toward aerospace education could be positively influenced to enhance personal teaching…

This interim evaluation report of the St. Louis, Missouri Urban Consumer Education Project assesses program effectiveness in terms of teacher training and teacher knowledge of consumer basics, community resource participation, and student and teacher knowledge. The project was designed to teach fifth grade students their rights and…

The instructor's manual considers the inservice training topic of special needs students' learning styles and their implications for regular class teachers. Activities are described to help participants understand modality learning and informal tests to determine modality strengths. Teaching strategies for auditory and visual weaknesses are…

The teacher inservice program and materials described here are designed to bring about a higher degree of sophistication in the area of instructional program planning given individual learning situations. The participants in the program translate goals into specific objectives, develop appropriate learning alternatives, rank the alternatives, and…

A study was conducted to address whether in-service teacher utilization training leads to better use of educational television by teachers and whether teacher-led activities supporting telelessons impact on student learning. Past studies show conflicting results and suggest inadequate teacher preparation as a cause. Four television programs on…

Guidelines are presented for developing workshops and inservice programs in physical education and recreation for impaired, disabled, and handicapped persons. Workshops are explained to be designed to create awareness of problems faced by the handicapped and the role of physical education and recreation in their lives. Considered are the following…

The described inservice education course is for the use of elementary school teachers who wish to develop skills in initiating an individually guided mathematics program. The scope and sequencing of topics in the course are outlined, and activities and resources involved are described. Ordering information for materials is given, and a critique of…

This is a SMSG geometry text for elementary teachers. This volume has been prepared to help elementary teachers develop a sufficient subject matter competence in the mathematics of the elementary school program. The editors feel that elementary teachers need a thorough discussion of all the materials they might teach in grades 4, 5, and 6, from a…

Highlights of a panel discussion on advisory work and how it relates to teacher centers and inservice education programs are contained in this transcript. The role of an advisor in a teacher center is to act as a helper, counselor, confidant, and supportive professional to teachers who seek their services. An important function of the advisor is…

Experience a Practicum with Exceptional Children (EPEC), university lecture courses and practicum experience within a local school district, offered field-based teacher education on the needs of handicapped students. The EPEC summer program recruited elementary students who were gifted, learning disabled, educable mentally retarded, mildly…

This pamphlet recommends that elementary-school teachers be provided with inservice courses which deal with probability concepts. The recommendations are based on the experiences of 120 teachers who taught probability in elementary school as part of a project of the National Science Foundation. The authors observe that probability is important…

The report states that teachers and administrators are in agreement as to the priorities and objectives in teaching elementary science. However, they strongly disagree regarding the obstacles to achieving effective science instruction. Mutual consensus is urged in this area to improve the science program. The study indicates that in-service…

The philosophy of this reading program is to guide all children to become independent readers and to stimulate them to build an abiding interest in reading a variety of materials on a wide range of topics. Essentially a diagnostic-prescriptive approach, the program instructs teachers in determining children's performance levels or potential…

The effect of a competency-based inservice program in questioning on teacher questioning behavior during the teaching of reading comprehension was investigated in this study. Fourteen intermediate teachers, randomly assigned to an experimental and control group, were observed before and after the program by trained observors who classified teacher…