THIS OUTLINE HAS BEEN PREPARED TO ASSIST SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, TEACHERS, AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN UNDERSTANDING AND IMPLEMENTING THE INSERVICE PROGRAM AS DESIGNED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. THE IMMEDIATE OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROGRAM ARE (1) TO PROVIDE TEACHERS WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO RAISE THEIR LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING…

Described are two studies related to the teaching of mathematics. A sample of 729 teachers who had received teaching certificates in 1965 and an endorsement to teach at the elementary level in Colorado schools were analyzed to determine their college preparation. The college transcripts of these teachers were examined to ascertain how many quarter…

This report represents the record of project activity which has not already been detailed in the First Milestone Report of October 1974 and the second milestone project, "Exploring Teachers' Centers." The National Institute of Education Group on School Capacity for Problem Solving (GSCPS) has conducted a survey to study grass roots teachers'…

Investigated with six first- to third-grade teachers was the generalization of the use of teacher praising and approval skills in one daily instructional period into a second daily instructional period. As part of a general investigation of teacher management skills by the Program for Academic Survival Skills, the teachers were taught to use…

The purpose of the Elementary Career Awareness Project's inservice program was to identify components of the career awareness process that were guidance oriented and to increase staff awareness of the guidance components that can be incorporated into the classroom. Briefly outlined are the goals, objectives, and activities of the three phases of…

The purpose of the research presented in this document is to classify, validate, and analyze the costs of inservice teacher education workshops in terms of measurable and effective benefits to students following teacher participation in inservice courses. The research design is divided into the following three phases: (a) list the claimed benefits…

This document reports on the success of a drug abuse education project after one year of implementation. Three of seven objectives were not achieved because the curriculum guides necessary for reaching those objectives were not produced. Significant progress was made on the following objectives: (1) determine and meet instructional and educational…

An inservice program, Project Alert, was conducted during the summer of 1973 in 50 school districts in New York State. Project Alert had a two-fold purpose: to increase the diagnostic/prescriptive skills of selected classroom teachers and to increase the leadership capabilities of the selected teachers so that they might function as inservice…

Surveyed for their implications on training material development were the training needs of 745 elementary and secondary school teachers and training conditions cited by 40 inservice leaders in 26 school districts. Among the seven clusters of specified teacher needs (including interpersonal communication and administration, assessment and…

A study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of the PLAN teacher training program in changing teacher classroom behavior. The program, to train teachers in skills specific to the use of the PLAN system of individualized education, included a 2-day spring 1969 session, a 3-day summer conference, a fall minicourse, and inservice consultant…

This report describes the Michigan State Inner City Mathematics Project which is designed to deal with the problems in the inner-city schools. The project's objectives are to provide inservice training for teachers in inner-city schools; to train critic teachers, supervisors, and other personnel for inner-city schools in mathematics; to prepare…

Probability and statistics have become indispensable to scientific, technical, and management progress. They serve as essential dialects of mathematics, the classical language of science, and as instruments necessary for intelligent generation and analysis of information. A prelude to probability and statistics is presented by examination of the…

The Mobile Teacher Program was designed to improve the social studies and science curricula in the Indian River School District, Delaware. The objective of the program for the 1973 fiscal year was to increase the skills of sixth-grade students in social studies and science a) by one grade level on a nationally standardized test compared to…

This paper describes the traditional role of the college student teaching supervisor, makes some observations concerning this role, and suggests a new role. The author makes the following observations about the traditional role: (a) it implies that the college supervisor can best contribute to teacher education by observing and then holding…

The booklet contains suggestions for planning and conducting an effective inservice teacher-training workshop for special or regular classroom teachers. Considered are ways to communicate with teachers; set objectives; promote active participation, discussion, variety, and respect for participants; organize; provide models and clear directions;…