The Illinois Model has been developed in the hopes of again producing excellence in education. The model provides for inservice experience to update teachers, the use of staff development activities to develop curricular instructional materials, and effective dissemination of the materials. (JOW)

This report, initiated at the request of the Lincoln Trail College (LTC) faculty, provides a series of recommendations regarding a continuing professional development program specially tailored to meet the needs and characteristics of the staff at LTC. A questionnaire was developed to determine activity relevance and availability, preference…