The study examined the rating of 41 suggested competencies for teachers of young handicapped children through a survey of 162 direct service programs, training programs, and state departments of education. Assessment was rated as the most important competency area with program strategies and working with parents following. (DB)

Prompts used by mathematics teachers are categorized into the following three major orientations: 1) motivation; 2) process; and 3) product. The structure of each type of prompt is broken into sub-categories and discussed with examples. This analysis is viewed as the first step towards teacher training for prompting skills. (MP)

The authors report the development of an instrument, the Essential Teacher Competencies questionnaire, and the results of an assessment of regular classroom teachers' perceived training priorities to equip them to function effectively with mainstreamed handicapped children. (Editor/SJL)

Urges in-service education and training (INSET) participants to be well informed of goals and involved in planning. Concludes that most participants are positive about the activities' design and execution despite extensive criticism about the value of INSET. Presents data about program participants' and trainers' opinions and beliefs about…

A teacher with National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification describes her experiences in achieving that certification, including in her story a description of three of her students who represent the images that define the process of National Board certification for her. (SM)

Considers factors that help and hinder experienced instructors in transitioning to teaching online. Highlights include intrinsic personality characteristics as measured by the Myers Briggs and Gregorc Transactional Ability Inventory; job support; and training to acquire online teaching skills. (Author/LRW)

This article reports on In-Service Education and Training (INSET) workshops offered in Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces in the field of environmental education. The purpose of these workshops is to assist practising teachers to enhance their teaching skills, to infuse environmental education in their teaching and to participate in solving…

This paper presents a review of literature dealing with peer coaching as a method for improving the teacher's overall instructional effectiveness, as well as generating teacher collegiality. The articles annotated for this study are organized into four sections. The first section discusses the concept of peer coaching, and the second section…

Listening is one of the most crucial skills in the classroom for student as well as teacher, yet both students and teachers are left to their own devices in learning this skill. Since the vast majority of learning in school requires extensive and intensive listening abilities, students must be assured the skill with which to listen and learn.…

A field based inservice training program designed to update teaching skills of professionals working with young mainstreamed handicapped children is described. Two programs--Using Skills Effectively and Using Resources Effectively--were conducted in cycles with 73 elementary regular and special education teachers and daycare providers. Class…

The programmed instructional materials described here are designed for use in an inservice teacher education program focused on enabling teachers to select, design, and use a wide variety of instructional games. Information is provided on the purposes and content of the materials as well as activities and resources involved. A critique, history of…

The teacher program described here focuses on why social studies should be part of the secondary school curriculum and attempts to delineate effective methods for teaching social studies. Specific topics in this program are thinking and social studies, multiple viewpoints as evidence, historiography as a teaching devise, developing an analytical…

The use of videotape recorders in the developmental reading practicum of the Experienced Teacher Fellowship Program in Reading at Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa, is explained. Through microteaching, the participating teachers develop technical teaching skills necessary to all content areas and specific reading skills dealing with word analysis and…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of inservice training of high school staff members on their ability to apply content area reading instructional skills selected by them as areas in which they need and want to improve. The hypothesis for the study was that there is a significant difference in the ability to apply…

Few investigations have focused on determination of efficient methods for providing teachers with human relations skills. Even less emphasis has been placed on observation of change in teachers' interpersonal skills after inservice training. The purpose of this study was to test the comparative effectiveness of two training programs for developing…