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Black, Susan – Executive Educator, 1995
Many school districts are acknowledging staff development's dismal record. Inservice programs traditionally operate on a deficit training model, promote awareness without classroom strategies, and are offered by traveling "experts." Teachers need time and opportunity to direct their own professional development program and "mess…
Descriptors: Inservice Education, Models, Professional Development, School Restructuring
Download full textWentling, Tim L.
The report is an evaluation of the Career Education Personnel Model Project (CEPM), which was initiated for the Michigan Department of Education in the spring of 1972. The purpose of CEPM project was to develop competency-based instructional models for the preparation and training of personnel who plan and implement career education programs. The…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Career Education, Competency Based Teacher Education, Counselor Training
Middle Cities Education Association, MI. – 1988
This two-part report comprises a description of an urban school improvement project in Michigan and the final evaluation report of the project. The Project for Secondary School Improvement was a 3-year program designed to assist secondary schools in 19 Michigan districts in implementing improvement models based on the research on effective schools…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Inservice Teacher Education, Management Development
Peer reviewedHoffman, Ellen; Thompson, Ginny – TechTrends, 2000
Describes statewide professional development programs in Michigan that were developed to train teachers in technology use. Discusses Teach for Tomorrow, which combines online learning with local facilitators and peer support networks; and the Great Lakes Education Network Best Practices project, which combines lesson plans from the Web with…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Lesson Plans
Lentz, Linda P. – 1985
Computer use in Michigan schools has evolved in three stages over the past decade. In the first, computers were new and few, and professional development was typically self-initiated. The Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) was formed at this time to provide resources to local districts which they were unable to provide…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Houghton, Mary; Goren, Paul – 1995
This report explores current thinking in professional development as it relates to strategies for reform. It begins with a discussion of the relationship between professional development and school reform and a description of recent efforts by the National Governors' Association to stimulate dialogue on the issue. The report then discusses the…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Excellence in Education
