This paper presents a proposed strategy for developing and utilizing a needs assessment strategy based on Competency Based Teacher Education. The three steps in the strategy are the identification of teaching skills needed in a particular situation, the development of a procedure for determining teacher needs in relation to the identified teaching…

This monograph reflects some of the current thinking about inservice teacher education, with a particular focus on the role of inservice education in improving reading instruction. Chapter one, an introduction to inservice education, attempts to deal with the problems involved in implementing inservice programs as well as to establish the need for…

This paper describes the planning and implementation of a Staff Development Program for teachers and administrators in the 22 school systems served by MEC (Merrimack Education Center). This program, which provided in-service learning experiences for educational practitioners, is discussed following an introductory statement. Information concerning…

This project provides in-service training to vocational educators and related personnel in order to equip them with competencies required to develop and direct more adequate and relevant programs of vocational education for people in rural areas. The project provided in-service training for 452 participants from 49 states and the District of…

FACTORS RELATED TO RESISTANCE TO INNOVATION IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCIENCE CURRICULUM WERE IDENTIFIED THROUGH THE EVALUATION OF AN INSERVICE EDUCATION PROGRAM. THE SAMPLE WAS COMPOSED OF 290 ELEMENTARY TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS WITH VARIED MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE BACKGROUNDS, TEACHING EXPERIENCE, AND TEACHING OR ADMINISTRATIVE ASSIGNMENTS.…

As part of the Inservice Teacher Education (ISTE) Concepts Study, more than 2,000 books, periodicals, and unpublished papers written after 1957 were consulted and reviewed. The purpose of the review was the identification of the data needs and major issues in inservice education. The literature was identified, read, and categorized; and…

Described is an inservice training program designed to provide administrators, supportive staff, classroom teachers, paraprofessionals, and parents with techniques, methods, and materials for students with learning problems. It is explained that the system is intended to develop administrative leadership, organize the service delivery system, and…

Summarizes for a sample of elementary teachers the previous utilization and future demand for inservice teacher workshops. A mail survey of randomly selected K-6 teachers in New York and northern New Jersey yielded 2,160 responses. Over 66 percent had attended one inservice training session during the previous two years. (Author)

A survey of state in-service training plans identified priorities in in-service training topics (including instructional and behavioral management of the handicapped child and implementation of the individualized education program); instructional personnel to be trained; differential patterns of delivering training; and such additional needs as…

Considers why in-service teacher education has been receiving increasing attention in terms of educational priorities, why it has not been succeeding, and how it can become effective. A set of guidelines gathered from five studies, which surveyed and analyzed a wide variety of in-service practices and programs from the national to local school…

The paper examines the procedural guidelines for developing and implementing individualized education programs (IEPs) for handicapped children. (Author/DB)

Describes the Living Curriculum,'' an inservice teacher education program in Tennessee. (MM)

Competency-based in-service education programs are put forth as an effective way to provide systematic training for special education teachers. (MM)