The public school system of Houston County, Georgia, has instituted an inservice staff development program planned by the teachers themselves. Following assessment of the needs of students and parents as well as teachers, the planning group designed a program offering college credit to participants. Houston County teachers now find it possible to…

The basic principles of operant and classical conditioning are presented, and their applications for the in-service training of teachers are discussed. Certain classroom behaviors are analyzed and applied to the classic stimulus-response paradigm. Activities are generically classified as positive or negative reinforcers and these reinforcers, in…

The data show that South Dakota teachers believe that past inservice education has generally been ineffective, have definite ideas about how inservice education should be redesigned, are willing to participate in planning and designing future inservice activities, and support inservice education as a way of improving their instructional skills.…

Article is the results of a questionaire sent out last spring to 478 educators in New Jersey schools asking: "What exciting or unusual in-service programs is your district/college sponsoring; particularly ones that involve college-public school cooperation?" (GB)

Demonstrates how a well planned program of inservice traing can help promote staff acceptance of a new educational idea. Deals only with inservice training for career education teachers. (Author)

Two models of in-service education programs for secondary school teachers are described--the on-site model and the teacher center model. (MM)

Presented are 11 sources of literature relating to inservice courses, programs; training materials, and workshop descriptions to aid classroom teachers in the mainstreaming of handicapped students. (LH)

A description of some of the teacher needs related to teaching career education, four types of inservice programs designed to meet these needs, some considerations in planning career education inservice programs, and a model describing the proposed content of a career education inservice program are presented. (Author/EC)

Five papers describe components of an inservice program: (1) the establishment of goals which reflect basic learning principles; (2) necessary components of the 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…

Responses from 298 RASD members who completed the questionnaire sent to a random sample of 640 are reported in four categories: (1) extent of participation in RASD (Reference and Adult Services Division); (2) preferences for conferences and activities; (3) desirability of developing a continuing education program; and, (4) characteristics of…

Describes the role of the local advisor or advisory team in English primary schools. (DP)