Describes a culturally appropriate nutrition mentoring program developed to train local health and education personnel in the Federated States of Micronesia to provide nutrition and feeding supports to children with disabilities and their families. Discusses similarities to rural U.S. programs. Tables present training-model competencies and…

Over the last decade, Papua New Guinea (PNG) has pursued educational reform in elementary teacher education. Because elementary teachers and teacher education are central to the reform agenda, there is a need to gain empirical evidence about how PNG teacher trainers' understandings about learning and teaching impact on their practice. The study…

This paper describes the role of the school-based mathematics specialist of the Project IMPACT (Increasing the Mathematical Power or All Children and Teachers) whose primary purpose is to design, implement, and evaluate a model for primary mathematics instruction that will enhance student understanding and support teacher change in predominantly…

Three papers discuss issues in providing vocational education services to handicapped children. In the first, "Vocational Education Speaks to Special Education," G. Rackliffe and N. Pearson consider aspects of appropriate placement and describe a handbook produced to address vocational issues for special educators. The handbook covers such topics…

Designed to develop increased understanding of and sensitivity to the needs of Native American youth, this in-service training program for teachers of Native Americans and members of Native American communities involved 25 teachers in a collaborative workshop effort. (JC)

The report summarizes the first two phases of project IMPACT (Implementing Mainstreaming Programs through Active Cooperative Training), a Montgomery County, Pennsylvania approach using a committee format for analyzing and addressing mainstreaming needs. A needs assessment instrument examining four aspects of concern about mainstreaming was…

The practicum was designed to determine if teachers' skills in the area of hyperactivity management could be significantly increased by providing a series of in-service training workshops. The training program was aimed at increasing knowledge about the causes of, and programs associated with, hyperactivity, and also at promoting feelings of…

The resource teacher's role in providing inservice training to regular educators is examined. The paper then describes an Action Plan Approach in which regular education teachers and the resource room teacher jointly identify problems commonly associated with mainstreaming and utilize combined efforts to resolve the problem. The advantages to the…

A brief description is given of a validated National Diffusion Network Developer-Demonstrator project. Project: INSERVICE (Bethalto Community Unit School District No. 8, Illinois) is a comprehensive teacher inservice training program that directly links the enhancement of teaching skills through classroom based inservice training to significant…

Learning style theorists have advanced several distinct definitions of learning style and have proposed diagnostic procedures and instructional practices based on these definitions. Practitioners could benefit by being able to draw on the full range of these conceptions, but the conditions of dissemination discourage theorists from drawing…

The final report describes a project designed to provide classroom teachers with inservice training on the education of handicapped minority children. The project was a joint effort between the University of Kansas (Department of Special Education) and the Kansas City, Missouri, School District. Progress and accomplishments are charted according…

The College of Education of the University of Santo Tomas and the Kapit-Bahay Community Center, Incorporated, approached the Israeli Embassy in Manila, Philippines, with a request for expertise in the area of early childhood. As a result of this request, the Mount Carmel International Training Centre, located in Haifa, Israel, submitted a proposal…