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Download full textSkupin, Joseph F. – 1976
To ascertain the effectiveness of the inservice approaches utilized in the original Michigan Vocational Education Advisory Committee Project, a followup state survey was conducted. The original project, to improve the operating effectiveness of vocational education advisory committees throughout the state, involved (1) development of a guide to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Advisory Committees, Followup Studies
Whitmore, Paul G.; And Others – 1972
During the summers of 1970 and 1971, the Human Resources Research Organization presented a special inservice training program to elementary teachers of the River Rouge, Michigan, School District. This report evaluates the effects of this training program and focuses on the determination of gains in student achievement that may be attributed to the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Teacher Education, Contingency Management
FOX, ROBERT S.; AND OTHERS – 1964
OBJECTIVES WERE--(1) TO UTILIZE THE WORKING MATERIALS CREATED DURING THE PREVIOUS YEAR, (2) TO EXPLORE THE NEED FOR A SET OF RESOURCE MATERIALS DIRECTED TOWARD HELPING THE CLASSROOM TEACHER GAIN KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS TO HELP IN THE TEACHING OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, (3) TO FIELD-TEST THE RESOURCE MATERIALS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, (4) TO DEVELOP AND TEST…
Descriptors: Day Camp Programs, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedSperling, Doris H.; Mahalak, Carolyn J. – Journal of Staff Development, 1993
After explaining performance assessment, the article describes a Michigan staff development workshop to teach educators performance assessment, explains program content and methods for teaching program assessment, illustrates how performance assessment was taught to students, and presents recommendations for effective implementation of performance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Inservice Teacher Education
Quimper, Barry E.; And Others – 1978
The second year of the three-district, cooperative program was only partially successful. The City of Saginaw, Michigan, was the Local Educational Agency (LEA) for the program designed for grades K-8 with funding of about $60,000. The project had three broad objectives. Only the first, to provide a program of cultural enrichment using local Indian…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, Change Agents, Cooperative Programs
BARBER, RAY W. – 1967
ATTEMPTS WERE MADE IN THE PROJECT OUTLINED HERE TO MODIFY TEACHER ATTITUDES TOWARD NEGRO CHILDREN, TO EQUIP TEACHERS WITH SKILLS TO DO A BETTER JOB OF TEACHING, TO ACCCOMPLISH THE SAME OBJECTIVES WITH THE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS, AND TO SURVEY BUILDING NEEDS IN TERMS OF CONTINUED DESEGREGATION IN THE SCHOOLS. A CORE GROUP OF TEACHERS WITH PREVIOUS…
Descriptors: Black Students, Classroom Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary School Teachers
