The results relating to staff development, contained in a Rand Corporation survey on change agents, are summarized in this paper. The researchers discovered that successful staff development program implementation was characterized by three major components: local materials development, online planning, and concrete, ongoing training. Their…

The purpose of the Project for the Advancement of Church Education (PACE) was (1) to test the hypothesis that INSTROTEACH workshops improve the competence of volunteer teachers, (2) to test the hypothesis that Learning Laboratory training improves the competence of volunteer teachers, and (3) to conduct studies on the correlation between teacher…

This paper describes the history and status of the Urban/Rural School Development Program which has both community involvement and inservice teacher education as components. The paper first discusses certain important features of the Urban/Rural program. One unique feature of this program is its built-in parity mechanism that requires shared…

This bibliography lists material published on teacher evaluation since June 1972. It includes listings of (a) 150 books, (b) 209 articles, and (c) 11 theses. A large number of the items in the first listing are in the ERIC system, in which case their ED number is included. Some of the topics covered include (a) performance based teacher education,…

The goal of this panel was to improve teacher training and teaching effectiveness through applied behavior research in instructional settings. Eight approaches for achieving this goal and for organizing suggested research programs were adopted and discussed. The first of these focused on an increase in the utilization of applied behavior analysis…

State and federal educational policy is increasingly directed toward the use of business management techniques to introduce more accountability into the operation of public schools and, in the process, often to hold teachers responsible for objectives over which they have little or no control. This paper examines the concept of Management by…

The module is the fourth of a series of seven discrete modules designed to assist elementary school teachers in the development of a career education program or to enrich an already established program. Module 4 may be used separately or in conjunction with the other modules. The module contains four units which cover the topics of the purposes…

The module is the seventh of a series of seven discrete modules designed to assist elementary school teachers in the development of a career education program or to enrich an already established program. Module 7 may be used separately or in conjunction with the other modules. Module 7 deals with career education and minorities, specifically…

At a national workshop sponsored by the American Home Economics Association (AHEA) in 1974, 71 participants (home economists representing all subject-matter and professional sections of the AHEA and other participants chosen for their experience in competency-based education or teacher education) determined that professionally defined competencies…

Teacher directed inservice or professional development is one means of increasing teacher self improvement. However, unless the teacher motivation stems from an intrinsic desire to teach more effectively, the degree of professional growth will be minimal. For this reason it is imperative that a teacher directed inservice program depend on…

In an attempt to shape better teaching, 18 students were given the opportunity to provide continuous feedback to a college instructor concerning a particular aspect of his lecturing. A student feedback device (SFD) used in this research consists of three major parts: (1) a feedback panel containing 18 indicator lights, each light being clearly…

This report is concerned with the responsibilities of professors for teacher training. The quality of high school and post high school business teaching depends upon attitudes toward and understandings of business and the economic system which have been developed in the business courses on the college level. The paper briefly examines the…

The thesis of this document is that evaluation of teachers and administrators should include the identification of strengths and the furthering, developing, and extending of them. Evaluation is examined from the point of view of heads of schools, teachers, parents, and students and concrete steps toward a good evaluation are suggested. A…

This study was conducted to determine some aspects of the Sabbatical Leave Policy at a random sample of 23 California community colleges in order to compare the results to the policy at Southwestern Community College (SCC). Following a brief survey of research literature and a review of the sabbatical leave provisions of the California Education…

The purpose of this study was to explore the results of an early field experience in the Secondary Science Teacher Preparation Program at Indiana University, Bloomington, where the field based program was located in classrooms using the ISCS program. Some of the questions explored were: Will early experience change the preservice teacher's…