Presented are recommendations for research and development in the field of competency based inservice training for Minnesota coordinators of special needs, those people at the local school district level who are responsible for services to handicapped and/or disadvantaged students in vocational education. Recommendations are given in the form of project proposals in eight areas: development of inservice training, retrieval of appropriate elements from the special education administrator training program already available at the University of Minnesota, validation of the competency statements used in the study involving incumbent coordinators, sorting administrative versus service competencies, recasting the competency statements into a conceptual framework that is compatible with the ideation of the special needs field, description of the functions which the local special needs program is intended to carry out, application of the coordinator competency list to those persons whom the coordinators supervise, and generation of a report of those administrative competencies within vocational education which are peculiar to the emergent field of special needs programing. Each outlined proposal includes a description of steps to follow in meeting the recommendation. Appendixes include a summary of the study conducted to investigate the nature of the job of coordinator of special needs in Minnesota and to determine the competencies perceived by incumbents to be required by the job. (SBH)