Elements in the preparation of hospital supervisors as inservice trainers. Nine references. (LY)

This article describes how area inservice educators formed their own group to serve as a support system and to meet their educational needs. (Editor)

Inservice educators must incorporate humanistic approaches in their offerings. Nursing service administrators should delegate to staff development personnel only those activities that are clearly educational in nature. (Author/JOW)

This article aims to provide a broad understanding of the role of union learning representatives (ULRs) and the contribution of union education and learning initiatives. It examines the scope for union learning to be distinctive and sustainable, and it does this by summarising and building upon a holistic review of research of ULR activity across…

Exemplary technology-using teachers achieve meaningful technology use in learner-centered, constructive environments despite the presence of both internal and external barriers. In this study, we discuss factors that enabled teachers to overcome these barriers, as identified by 25 winners of statewide technology teacher awards. In addition, we…

This study investigated characteristics of five IMO winners and influences from their formal and informal educational experiences. In particular, this study provides in-depth understanding of former Korean IMO winners' characteristics and environmental influences. Also, implications including education for parents of the gifted, professional…

Cites eight factors that contribute to better inservice teacher training programs in reading, emphasizing the role of the administrator. (RB)

Describes several successful inservice teacher education programs in reading. (RB)

A description is given of the development, implementation, and the functional outcome of a revised inservice education correspondence course on leadership development in vocational education, which was offered by the University of Illinois. When used as group study and with invited guidance and administrative personnel, the course was very…

Stressing that instructional behaviors, programs, and materials developed for inservice education must be systematic, stimulating, psychologically sound, and organized, this document provides a guide to the development of inservice instructional packages. It includes extensive criteria for evaluating inservice instructional packages under the…

This document is part of a revised series of five publications, planning for Inservice Education, which was originally published in 1976 in five units. This introductory monograph provides a discussion of the generic principles of effective planning for inservice education programs. The contents are divided into an overview of the planning model,…

The Adult Basic Education (ABE) teacher-training institute held at Mississippi State University, was a joint effort of the Mississippi State Department of Education and Mississippi State University. The main efforts of the instruction were directed toward the preparation of teams of teacher-trainers who would responsible for the planning,…

Realizing the need for in-service workshops and graduate-level courses for middle-school practitioners, the College of Education Continuing Education Program of the University of Pennsylvania conducted a series of three-credit, graduate-level workshops throughout southeastern Pennsylvania during the summer of 1974. This is an ongoing workshop…

Because of inadequate preservice and in-service mathematics training programs, a critical need existed to provide quality in-service mathematics instruction for teachers in sparsely settled areas of Appalachia. A computer assisted instruction (CAI) course was developed for use with the IBM 1500 system which utilized an integrated approach relying…

Inservice education programs for public school teachers are needed for these, among other, reasons: (1) to provide teachers with preparation for teaching reading since this often not done by colleges and universities and is often not required for state department certification; (2) to help teachers keep abreast of the latest research in the field…