The statement that "every teacher is a teacher of reading" is an ineffective cliche. However, cooperation among secondary school content and reading teachers can be achieved through establishing schoolwide reading teams, offering services and inservice education for content teachers, pairing reading and content teachers, publishing newsletters,…

"NASSP Bulletin" editor Tom Koerner poses questions about the relative importance of international education to 10 people from several educational fields. Most agree that including an international perspective is not anti-American, but enables students to understand the issues confronting our country and the world. Curriculum development and…

Data from 79 physics teachers are analyzed to determine: (1) what were the inservice needs identified by at least 65 percent of this group; and (2) if physics teachers' inservice needs differ from science teachers in general. The top 13 needs appeared consistent with recent efforts to make physics more humanistic. (MP)

Describes an in-service reading program designed to develop the reading skills of students through in-service training of teachers and to develop the competencies of undergraduate and graduate students in the teaching of reading. (JM)

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…

Describes a program in which every teacher of grades 6 through 9 is involved for one week at the beginning of the year in teaching his students reading skills in his particular subject area. (JR)

The changes taking place in education require of teachers an unprecedented professional re-orientation and growth. Much of this can be done effectively only by a collective effort within the school. Staff development, including the induction of probationary teachers, is the organizing of a systematic response to these many changes. (Author/IRT)

An overview is given of the involvement of IBM in secondary and college education. Several grant programs, inservice training programs, and faculty loan programs are noted. (MNS)

This paper presents a case-study of a mathematics teacher who has substantively developed her mediational strategies and her conceptions of mathematical knowledge as a result of her participation in an in- service program. Her new teaching practices raise serious dilemmas for her in relation to her teaching context, in particular, the limited…

In-service programs can help teachers learn to deal more effectively with classroom discipline problems. (Author/MLF)

Discusses four decision-making models and applies them to the evaluation of staff development programs. (SR)

The authors describe the present state of economic education in Japan. There is a larger number of undergraduate students who major in economics, but their purpose of studying economics and their economic literacy differ. Precollege economic education is regulated by the course of study and limited by the poor ability of teachers to teach the…

This sourcebook contains a collection of articles on educational topics and is designed to be used as a resource for inservice teacher programs at the secondary level. The first section is devoted to curriculum theory and contains writings on the theoretical underpinnings and relevant background for practical work with students. Inservice is the…

An evaluation of the second phase of a projected 3-year Title III inservice reading instruction program for teaching personnel is presented after one and one-half years of operation in 16 Cayce-West Columbia, South Carolina, schools. Included is an evaluation prepared by each of the 11 elementary supervisors which includes objectives and how they…

Suggests that the most feasible way of achieving rapport between secondary school content area teachers and reading specialists is through in-service programs that utilize total school in-service, departmental in-service, individual in-service, total school and departmental in-service, or a combination of these approaches. (FL)