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Download full textDalke, Bruce; And Others – 1980
The newsletter describes the staff and training activities of the Teaching Research Infant and Child Center which consists of two national model centers--Early Education for the Handicapped Model and a Severely Handicapped Education Model. It is reported that staff training procedures developed at the Boulder (Montana) River School and Hospital…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Models
Thomas, Gretchen – 1979
Advisory work and its relation to teachers' centers is described. The following topics are considered: (1) differences between advisory work and other staff development; (2) purposes of advisory work; (3) methods advisors use; (4) realistic expectations of the advisor role: dilemmas and discouragements; (5) characteristics, skills, and experiences…
Descriptors: Educational Counseling, Faculty, Faculty Advisers, Guidance Objectives
Donaldson, George W.; Donaldson, Louise E. – Camping Magazine, 1982
School camping began with three movements in American society: children's camping, which has been traced back as far as 1823; the Nature Study Movement, which is thought to have begun as early as 1839; and the holistic "new education." In 1940, L. B. Sharp opened National Camp in New Jersey and Julian W. Smith initiated the Clear Lake…
Descriptors: Camping, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership
Askins, William, Ed. – Community College Humanities Review, 1989
Designed as a forum for the exchange of ideas on significant issues in the humanities, this journal presents articles written by two-year college faculty in the humanities disciplines. The 1989 annual issue includes the following: (1) "Popular Literature and the American Literature Survey Course: The Case of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood," by…
Descriptors: Academic Education, College Curriculum, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Benson, Chris, Ed. – Bread Loaf Rural Teacher Network Magazine, 2000
This serial issue contains 12 articles on the theme of "Professional Development," specifically about how teachers in the Bread Loaf Rural Teacher Network (BLRTN) are fostering their own and each other's development as teachers. The BLRTN consists of approximately 260 rural teachers in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky,…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Computer Mediated Communication, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty
Noteworthy, 1985
This issue contains several articles synthesizing research on effective schools conducted by the Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL). Six "folios," or handouts, intended for dissemination to teachers, review the research and make specific suggestions for teachers on: (1) beginning the school year; (2) time management; (3)…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Discipline, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Ogbu, John U. – 1978
This paper evaluates the Institute's training program, which was designed to help teachers and other educators make parent participation and community involvement in bilingual/bicultural education more effective. Focused on is the effectiveness of the anthropological techniques to which participants in the training program were introduced. The…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Involvement, Cultural Influences, Educational Anthropology
Journal and Dental Education, 1979
The manual for the development of general practice residency programs in dentistry is designed to be used in three regional workshops to train individuals representing institutions who wish to develop such programs. The first of three major sections in the manual reviews the historical background of general practice residency programs. In the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Clinical Experience, Cost Effectiveness, Dental Schools
Watts, Gordon E., Ed. – Journal of Staff, Program & Organization Development, 1983
Designed as a forum for the exchange of practical and theoretical information regarding all aspects of personal, professional, and institutional development in postsecondary education, this journal contains articles, announcements, and resource reviews. The first issue of 1983 includes the following articles: "Institutionalizing Staff, Program and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Faculty Evaluation, Instructional Improvement, Merit Pay
Reusswig, James, Ed.; Ponzio, Richard, Ed. – California Journal of Teacher Education, 1980
Eight essays are presented which reflect current problems, issues, and practices related to the development of teacher and administrator expertise. The authors are school district and public school administrators, faculty of schools of education, and a director of staff development in a state department of education. The topics treated are: (1)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Educational Legislation, Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education
Peer reviewedMyran, Gunder A., Ed. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1983
Articles in this sourcebook discuss six strategic areas of community college management: external relations, internal communication and working relationships, financial resources development and allocation, program and service development, staff development, and strategic planning. First, "Strategic Management in the Community College,"…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Community Colleges, Educational Finance
McCardell, Nora E.; Willment, Jo-Anne H. – CSSHE Professional File, 1987
Though bound by a number of political, economic, and institutional constraints on options for staff development, Niagara College (Ontario) made a commitment to design a formal human resource development strategy to meet the needs of all college staff through the 1990s. In 1982, a Human Resource Development Committee was mandated to assess current…
Descriptors: Careers, Community Colleges, Employer Employee Relationship, Governance
Roper, Susan Stavert; Hoffman, David E. – OSSC Bulletin, 1986
To overcome teacher isolation and help make teaching a more attractive profession, educators might consider a peer support system based on the Stanford Collegial Evaluation Program. This paper describes the program's background, functioning, barriers to successful implementation, and how to neutralize them. The Stanford program uses a peer…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Formative Evaluation, Participant Observation
Hughes, Maria – FE Matters, 1998
This report provides results of a study of placements in business and industry by 70 further education (FE) colleges and views of managers in Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) and Education Business Partnerships (EBPs) across England and Wales. Chapter 1 reports that colleges made 848 placements; the most common purposes were upskilling and…
Descriptors: Business, Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Industry
Fuentes, Nancy; And Others – Issues about Change, 1994
In 1992 the Texas Education Agency selected 83 schools to participate in its Partnership Schools Initiative (PSI), which had the goals of improving outcomes for students and closing the performance gaps among various student groups. The schools were allowed flexibility in the process used to achieve these goals. One of the partnership schools,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Educational Change
