Brief notes discuss current items of interest such as a behavior modification device for teachers and minicourses for elementary school teachers. (JF)

Article provided the components and guidelines of a workshop for developing teacher compentencies. (RK)

Based on the author's address before the International Curriculum Conference (3rd, Oxford, England, September 1967).

This document lists chapters or sections from books and handbooks to assist inservice teachers in developing their verbal interactive skills in the classroom. Minicourse lessons and plans are referred to frequently. After an initial diagnosis of the teacher's performance level, a training counselor meets with the teacher and utilizes such a list…

A survey of 442 colleges and universities accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education was made to determine how many used microteaching as a training technique in their secondary teacher education programs. One hundred seventy-six indicated that they used microteaching, and 141 of these answered a comprehensive…

This study investigated the effectiveness of an in-service program for teachers focused on pupil questioning, to determine if the number as well as the variety of pupil questions in science classes could be made to increase, if there could be greater variety of verbal remarks preceding pupil questions as well as in responses to questions, and if…

The teacher center, in this paper, is defined as an "institution established within an educational renewal site designed to facilitate change in instructional personnel primarily through inservice education and training experience." The authors advise that teacher centers must attend not only to the development and remediation of teaching skills…

Stresses the concern for individual standards which pervades the Plowden report. Suggests that some of the report's professional advice, regarding inservice education, inspection and diagnostic testing, is more timely and relevant now than when it was first offered. (Editor/RK)

An experimental inservice project was developed at the college level focusing on teaching competencies in planning, direct teaching, and measurement applied to handicapped persons. The project features included training in skills directly applicable to classroom needs and supervision and consultation via remote monitoring and site visits.…

A survey of literature dealing with inservice training for teachers was conducted to identify the kinds of inservice education used most frequently, and most commonly stated guidelines for producing effective programs. Results are discussed. (DF)

This report, the third in a series of reports from the longitudinal evaluation of the Eisenhower Professional Development Program, examines the effects of professional development on improving classroom teaching practice. The Eisenhower Professional Development Program, Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, is the federal…

The Improving Teaching Competencies Program at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory is developing twenty-four instructional systems for professional development of educators. (Author)

Outlines the content and training methods used in the Program for Effective Teaching (PET), the successful staff development program of Newport News (Virginia). PET promotes application of five instructional skills: selecting learning objectives, teaching to the objectives, establishing learner focus, monitoring learner progress, and enhancing…

The National Center for Research in Vocational Education is developing a set of competency-based teacher education modules designed to train vocational education teachers to serve students with special needs. This article describes activities pursued as part of the project. (CJ)

Survey responses from 20 of 39 industrial technology education teachers in Lincoln, Nebraska, indicated that they felt able to teach special needs students but desired more training. They did not receive adequate support for working with these students and preferred professional days for inservice training. (SK)