Approximately 20% or 400 teachers leave the public school system on Guam every year. This attrition rate has been attributed to a host of interrelated local issues. Frequently, many of these teachers are recruited from off-island for 2-year contracts. The Guam Public School System (GPSS) spent an average of nearly $2 million per year on…

This 2-year program, extending from 1968 to 1970, was to develop a comprehensive teacher education program encompassing both inservice and preservice education and to establish self-renewing procedures in the Guam educational agencies. Workshops utilizing instructional systems developed by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory served as…