This document briefly covers a number of topics to be considered in the planning of inservice education programs. Topics include: (1) a statement of the Ohio Education Association's (OEA) policy on inservice education and professional development; (2) an overview of inservice education and professional development programs; (3) some common…

Because children who are deaf or hard of hearing are being identified at birth, fitted with advanced hearing technology, and enrolled in early intervention programs, families increasingly seek professionals who can provide services that support their choice of listening and spoken language. The increased demand for these services and shortages of…

Over the last ten years, hospitals have been placing a growing emphasis on staff development programs as indispensable to effective operation. (PT)

Changes in society due to technological advancement have placed a burden on educational systems to prepare individuals to deal with the future. Academic administrators must be properly and continually trained in order to provide leadership for their institutions. (DF)

An inservice course is described which was developed to teach selected emergency nursing personnel in Nebraska's six Emergency Health/Medical Services areas. The teaching approach was individualized so that the nurses could study only needed materials and work at their own pace as their schedules allowed. (MF)

The New England Program in Teacher Education model of inservice education is described. (MM)

In-service education of Adult Basic Education (ABE) instructional staff by the unit of the school system or other institution that sponsors the ABE program is the focus of this monograph. The four interrelated purposes of the monograph are: (1) to present a general framework that planners can use in developing in-service education, using basic…

Ways in which the Health Education Consortium has determined and is meeting the continuing education and inservice education needs of hospital personnel in Northwest Mississippi are described. (MS)

This paper describes the purpose and function of the "mini-sabbatical" for college faculty. This short term sabbatical is of one week duration. During this period the teacher visits an educational institution other than his own with the object of observing, interviewing, and discussing his field of interest with faculty members…

Describes the motivation, planning, implementation, evaluation, and restructuring of a course in Critical Care Nursing developed by faculty and inservice educators from several hospitals. (Editor/TA)

Technical, manufacturing, and administrative personnel in an IBM plant can request participation in a highly flexible career development program which is based on the assumption that the vitality of "obsolete" employees can probably be renewed only through volumtary development of each individual in directions dictated by that individual's…

Oregon and Arkansas are developing local leadership personnel through extern programs. Graduate coursework is combined with field experiences to meet State certification for local vocational directors. (MW)

Focuses on one two-year college's (School of Allied Health Technologies, State University of New York at Alfred, New York) activities in assisting health related facilities to meet their continuing education needs. (TA)

The faculty development program of a department at a predominantly black university in the South Atlantic region of the United States (identified by the pseudonym Reed University) was studied. The purpose was to identify the extent to which the principles and practices of adult education are applied within the faculty development effort; to…

Objectives of the ongoing Continuing Professional Development for Local Education Authority (LEA) project in the United Kingdom are to enhance the skills of LEA staff by defining the future education curriculum, exploring definitions of quality, developing a program of continuing professional development (CPD) for curriculum managers at the LEA…