Constant retraining in subject matter, methods, and attitudes is essential if teachers are to keep pace with the time. (Author)

The article is basically a questionnaire used to determine from music teachers what in service programs they have taken and why these programs are innovative and exemplary. (MF)

In-service education as prescribed here should be based on each individual's evaluation of his/her own behavior and formulation of a plan for personal and professional growth. (MM)

A faculty program at the State University of New York allows tenured faculty in areas of low and declining enrollments opportunities to retrain in related disciplines with growing or high enrollments. (MM)

Five papers describe components of an inservice program: (1) the establishment of goals which reflect basic learning principles; (2) necessary components of total inservice program; (3) the identification and meeting of reading teachers' needs and teacher involvement in planning; (4) inservice programs in the large school; and (5) the description…

In 2006, representatives of the New Jersey Department of Education, the New Jersey School Boards Association, and the New Jersey Association of School Administrators, conceived a joint venture aimed at assisting board of education teams, including their superintendents, to function better as cohesive teams and foster improved academic achievement…

This article presents an Australian case study of the experiences of curriculum workers involved in professional development for primary school teachers in the New Social Studies and their perceptions of the curricular and pedagogical challenges facing those teachers in the 1970s and 1980s. It draws on data gathered primarily through "oral…

In this pilot study we report on proximate outcomes of a 1-hour community gatekeeper training in-service for 76 nonclinical employees in a university hospital workplace setting. Pre-post analyses resulted in positive changes in participants' knowledge about suicide and attitudes (self-efficacy) about intervening with suicidal individuals. A subset…

This article describes the mentoring program at Ottawa Vocational Education (EHOVE) Career Center in Milan, Ohio. The program is designed to enhance the performance of all new teachers by facilitating their transfer of knowledge gained from their coursework and inservice training into appropriate teaching practice. In addition, it is also…

The current nation-wide reform of Chinese primary and secondary education prompted an empirical research project, "An empirical investigation of in-service English teachers in primary and secondary schools and a study of a pre-service language teacher education program", conducted at Baoding, China. This project is considered as…

Offers a set of twelve guidelines for inservice activities designed to improve instruction in reading. (RB)

The manual provides suggestions for planning inservice teacher training. Basic foci of the booklet are explained to include examination of time distribution, room arrangement, audience participation, stimulation of audience interest, measurement of inservice effectiveness, and communication of inservice results. The manual is divided into…