The authors propose a format for conducting workshops whose goals are the development of programs of continuing education for teachers. The rationale for such inservice teacher improvement is based upon (1) the need to more capably deal with the individual differences among children; (2) the changing nature of the inservice education enterprise; and (3) the interrelationship of the dimensions of governance, mode, delivery, and substance in inservice education programs. The workshop format aims at improving the effectiveness of the continuing (inservice) education process by attending to the improvement of all four dimensions at the same time, since improvement to only one or two of the dimensions has little effect on the value of the entire process. Conduct of workshops is predicated on the interaction of individuals gathered first into role groups (e.g., teachers, administrators, school board members) which, in three meetings, examine existing inservice programs, develop a rationale of needs for training, and revise these needs into a new inservice program. Participants then meet in team groups (e.g., project, university, school district) to examine inservice proposals, develop general goals and activities for realizing them, and construct a plan for continued team functioning. At the conclusion of this procedure, a collaborative relationship should exist among the concerned participants of the continuing education program, and three products should have been created: a model of continuing education, a rationale, and follow-up action plans. (MJB)