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Download full textHorm-Wingerd, Diane M.; And Others – 1996
The Head Start Teaching Center is a federally funded national demonstration project designed to test the efficacy of participatory training for staff in all components of Head Start services. The New England Teaching Center is designed to provide intensive training during a 3- to 5-day period of residence. Each Teaching Center conducts a regular…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Quality, Inservice Education, Preschool Education
Packard, Richard D.; Fargo, Steve – 1987
Northern Arizona University's Arizona Career Ladder Research & Evaluation Project for teachers implements a procedure for rewarding teachers based on performance levels rather than on years of teaching experience and college credits. Research data is collected each spring, analyzed and fed back to the districts for improvement of key program…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Evaluation
Saunders, Ron; Watkins, J. Foster – 1980
The relationship between occupational stress and general stress and possible relationship among selected teacher personal and situational variables and the two types of stress was investigated. Subjects of the study were teachers in Huntsville, Alabama, a city of 145,000 with an industrial and agricultural economy. There was a return of 41 percent…
Descriptors: Career Change, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Satisfaction
PDF pending restorationCooley, Van E.; Thompson, Jay C., Jr. – 1990
This study is a replication of a 1983-84 study of state activity in the area of staff development. Survey questionnaires were mailed to the Chief Educational Officer in each of the 50 states; responses were received from all states. The study compares changes since the 1984 study and focuses on five basic objectives: (1) Which states through law…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student, Inservice Teacher Education
Zbinden, William R.; Martwick, Richard J. – 1979
The project grant objectives for fiscal year 1978 for the Chicago Regional Project serving handicapped children are analyzed in relation to seven student related objectives and one facility staff related objective. Statistical data for objectives in the following areas are included: self help skills, motor development, communication skills,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Adjustment (to Environment), Communication Skills
Simons, Michele; Harris, Roger – 2001
A research project chronicling the nature and extent of the structured staff development undertaken by teachers and trainers employed at public and private providers of vocational education and training (VET) in Australia was one component of a larger study that examined the changing role of staff development for VET teachers and trainers. Data…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Continuing Education, Course Content, Developed Nations
