An overview of contemporary ideas regarding in-service vocational-technical education is presented in brief outline. In-service education is defined (as a "planned, goal-directed change process") and guidelines for planning, organizing, and conducting in-service education, consistent with the definition, are given. Key points are reiterated and…

This survey of South Dakota teachers clearly indicates that teachers expect their principals to play an important leadership role in helping them improve instruction through inservice education. Effective inservice education programs include staff involvement in planning, strong commitment from the principal, and program evaluation. (Author)

The New England Program in Teacher Education model of inservice education is described. (MM)

Activities to date under the federal Teacher Centers Law (Public Law 94-482) are described. Opportunities for the submission of new proposals, or rewriting and resubmission of rejected proposals are described. National Education Association interest in these activities is made clear. (MJB)

Sixteen things to avoid in planning and implementing inservice programs are listed including problems in the areas of faculty involvement, scheduling, flexibility, funding, and non-monetary support. (BD)

This paper considers the process of program development aiming at technology integration for teachers. For this consideration, the paper focused on an integration program which was recently developed as part of a larger project. The participants of this program were 45 in-service teachers. The program continued four weeks and the conduct of the…

In this article I investigate the process of an in-service programme for English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) teachers in Argentina started in 2007. Teachers began to feel uneasy about the EFL curriculum for secondary education at the time, feeling that something should be done to develop a participatory curriculum to be implemented in the future.…

Career Education poses a challenge for in-service education and requires management decision making from all the discipline areas and teaching levels. The major theme of this paper is that sound planning and management of a systematic in-service delivery system is basic to implementing career education. A planning format is presented for use in…

The increasing need to learn English worldwide leads to the rapid development in the field of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). Teachers in this profession are required to reach a much higher level of professionalism now, and their in-service professional development can be an effective approach to updating their professional learning…

Because children who are deaf or hard of hearing are being identified at birth, fitted with advanced hearing technology, and enrolled in early intervention programs, families increasingly seek professionals who can provide services that support their choice of listening and spoken language. The increased demand for these services and shortages of…

This collection of papers illustrates processes for assessing needs and determining goals in inservice programs and includes the following titles: Inservice Needs Assessment; Field Based Clinical Inservice Education; Inservice Education Clinic--Translating Needs into Goals and Objectives; Multiple Source Assessment Model--A Process for…

A four-step method that can be utilized to make inservice education programs more responsive to the interests and needs of teachers and other educational personnel is presented. The first step involves assessing teachers' attitudes and changes in attitudes toward inservice as measured by responses to 34 statements in an inventory. A copy of the…

School principals must assume responsibility for initiating inservice education programs to improve reading and language arts teachers' skills and to promote quality education. Discussions provided in this paper focus on the following questions in the development of effective inservice programs: What is the nature and definition of inservice…

Guidelines for structuring successful inservice programs to train vocational teachers for working with special needs students include involving the teachers in planning the program, specific course content, scheduling times, and needs assessment, and utilizing presenters whose experiences match the need. (MF)

Describes Projects PRICE's (Programming Retarded in Career Education) inservice training program (which has been field tested and evaluated) for school districts, designed to train various types of school personnel, parents, community agency workers, and employers to provide mildly retarded students more relevant instruction and supportive…