The document describes a program to enlarge, through inservice training workshops, the pool of individuals available to provide appropriate services for multiply handicapped students in various communities and at residential schools. Outlined are plans for providing training courses to collaborative service coordinators, non-education…

Eight inservice training models are included for teachers, school staff members, and school volunteers. The models are designed to accomplish objectives such as (1) familiarizing the faculty with the value of participating in a school volunteer program; (2) familiarizing faculty with the objectives, structure, and policies of the school volunteer…

This document reports responses to a questionnaire investigating the needs of junior and senior high school mathematics teachers in Minnesota for continued inservice education programs. The questionnaire, administered to two hundred and seventy-eight teachers in both rural and urban public schools, posed seventy-two questions on the usefulness to…

The papers and other materials in this volume are an outgrowth of a conference held in Philadelphia in April 1975. Directors of Reading from six major Eastern urban centers presented information on exemplary reading practices and programs within their cities. The first paper discusses the Comprehensive Instruction Program and the Atlanta…

This report describes a practicum designed to plan and implement a training model that is intended to change inservice education and, subsequently, to prepare teachers to individualize instruction. The motivation necessary for planned change, an innovative problem solving design, the implementation of that design, and the results of the…

A brief introduction to developmental efforts in computer assisted instruction (CAI) at Pennsylvania State University is followed by a description of a program of mobile CAI facilities inaugurated in 1970 as part of the inservice continuing education program for teachers. The paper includes very brief descriptions of the graduate level courses…

Formal programs of in-service education for faculty in American colleges and universities generally have been neglected and are lacking in approximately half of the institutions. In only half of the senior colleges and universities in the United States is the need to improve the professional development and performance of college and university…

Implications for staff development are discussed using an empirically tested model that measures the developmental level of teacher concerns as they deal with innovative ideas. The focus is on specific stages of concern as a way of better understanding relevant interventions useful to the staff developer. (JMF)

Describes the "floating faculty" program developed by the Prince George's County (Maryland) Public Schools to provide onsite inservice training for school faculties in the district through the use of specially trained personnel that make up a "faculty-without-a-school." (JG)

Describes a college-based, inservice teacher education program for high school language teachers. (CHK)

Using an attudinal scale which assessed three dimensions thought to underlie attitudes toward mainstreaming, teachers, nurses, and other noneducators were scored before and following a course on exceptional children. Pre- and posttest scores demonstrated significant shifts to a more positive orientation, suggesting that information can form a…

Surveys the participation of secondary school mathematics and science teachers in inservice training activities in Israel. Results indicate the majority of inservice training participation occurs during summer months with little involvement, other than reading, occurring during the school year. (SL)

Described are seven inservice education sessions located in three states and attended by the author. (RY)