Describes a program designed to help the beginning teacher adjust to a new job and assist him to minimize the common pitfalls and difficulties encountered by many new teachers. (SB)

Workshops can be a successful means of in-service education programs. (GB)

This program gave a vocational agriculture teacher six weeks of experience in industry and provided him with instructional assistance from a dairy industry during the school year. (GB)

Preservice teacher education programs should promote skills that enable teachers to select activities and resources for continued professional growth. (MM)

The use of telecommunication systems holds great potential for in-service training programs. (MM)

A general model for competency-based in-service training which integrates four processes used in systems engineering is described; the major problems that reduce its effective use are presented and discussed. (MM)

School focused in-service education and training (INSET) is a synthesis of course-based and school-based models. Three elements are considered: identification and definition of needs; development and execution of appropriate INSET activities to meet these needs; and evaluation. (JMF)

An off-campus in-service education program was developed and tested at Northern Illinois University Department of Special Education to meet training needs resulting from Public Law 94-142. (MM)

Primary health care nurses are frequently overlooked when delivering services to children with developmental disabilities, despite the fact that they are often the first contact many primary caregivers have with rehabilitation professionals and usually remain the bridge between caregivers and professionals. A time series one group design with…

Describes the use of audio and video tape recordings and interaction analysis to develop teacher self-awareness in an individualized inservice program. (JG)

The goals of the Columbus Staff Development and Human Relations Program for the 1982-83 school year included: (1) to provide inservice support for the School Improvement Program in order to improve pupil acquisition of basic skills; (2) to train 148 teachers and 30 other personnel in the Teacher Expectations and Student Achievement (TESA) program;…

A discussion of inservice training of teaching assistants as a means of instituting educational change and maximizing the long range effects of the inservice dollar. (Author/HB)

This directory has three major sections. The foreword is a brief essay describing the purpose of the Teachers' Centers Exchange, the "network" of teachers' centers, and the reasons for compiling and publishing this directory. The second section gives descriptions of 78 teachers' centers in the Exchange's network. These descriptions highlight each…

This article reports the results of a 1974 survey of Florida community college administrators and faculty to determine their perceptions of the content and methods that should comprise a faculty inservice program. The authors recommend that faculty values, needs, and perceptions be central to the planning of all inservice experiences. (DC)

Four years after an NDEA institute in the Philippines, participating teachers were asked a series of questions relating to their experiences. These and other responses were analyzed and compared to responses made just before and after the institute. (Author/RM)