The author cites ways to increase personal stature of professors and decrease nepotism" in the university. (Author/MS)

Professional growth should be regarded as an essential continuous process throughout one's professional career. (Author)

Training managers are given guidelines to determine the training needs of their instructors in order to improve the selection and use of external courses. (Author/MF)

Teacher performance evaluations should be teaching learning centered; planned and continuous; cooperatively designed and implemented. (Author/AF)

Author gives a review of social protest. His quotes from classic and current literature includes William Kunzler Abbie Hoffman, and J. S. Mill among others. (Editor/MR)

Discussions of relevant teacher effectiveness research, feedback from a teacher-coach, and group and individual self-evaluations were the three major techniques used in a staff development program aimed at improving the classroom performance of first-year teachers in a suburban high school district. (PGD)

Evidence suggests that effective teachers are also effective leaders. Because leaders and teachers perform similar duties, clues for preparing better teachers can be obtained by analyzing the characteristics of effective leadership. (SK)

Vito Perrone, Dean of the School of Education at North Dakota University, advocates that teachers reestablish themselves as students of teaching, becoming researchers in their own classrooms by writing about what they observe. Maintains that journal writing makes teachers more observant and questioning of long-standing practices. (NEC)

Offers a clinical supervision model that provides a means by which reading teachers and supervisors can analyze and improve classroom reading instruction. (FL)

Fritz Perls' Gestalt Workshops are explained and recommended for inservice training for teachers. Since Gestalt Workshops increase their participants' growth, awareness, and integration personally and environmentally, their benefit to classroom teachers would be direct and dramatic. (Author)

In-service education as prescribed here should be based on each individual's evaluation of his/her own behavior and formulation of a plan for personal and professional growth. (MM)

Examines ways in which a teacher appointed as professional tutor can support school staff development activities. Identifies tutor task areas and discusses experiences gained in a pilot project concerned with the role of tutors. Suggests situations in which professional tutors can successfully take on staff development activities. (Author/MK)