Colleges and universities with teacher preparation programs need to establish reasonable requirements for prospective teachers in planning health education curriculum. Currently, many schools and school districts are conducting inservice health education courses for elementary classroom teachers. Guidelines are given for facilitating inservice…

This article describes the one-week "rotational internship" program developed by the University of Washington and intended for practicing teachers, teaching assistants, and other early childhood program staff. It explains how the internship functions and illustrates how this approach can be merged with ongoing inservice activities.…

This article describes the Research Lead Teacher (RLT) model and its implementation over 3 years to train classroom teachers in research-based instructional and behavior management strategies. The RLT program included teacher study groups and a structured intervention involving the RLT in the requesting teacher's classroom. External evaluation…

In the fall of 1977 a four year project was initiated to assist a group of Micmac and Maliseet Indians to earn the Bachelor of Education degree and become eligible for teacher certification. The 41 participants were teacher's aides who wished to be upgraded to classroom teachers. To allow students to maintain their full time jobs, an on-campus,…

This paper documents the methodology, research process, process interventions, and the resulting quality indicators of a technology staff development project. The project was designed to assist the administration at an elementary school in San Diego (California) in developing a capacity building model of staff development that would support the…

Evaluation results are summarized for the first year (1975-76) of a project designed (1) to demonstrate a comprehensive and coordinated career education program in the Bangor, Maine, public school system, which could serve as a model for the northern section of Maine, (2) to demonstrate procedures for integrating and implementing career education…

In Kentucky, one of the six participating Appalachian Rural Systemic Initiative (ARSI) states, the Teacher Partner concept soon gave rise to the Regional Teacher Partners (RTPs). This complementary project, known as the "Master Teacher Project," was designed after the Teacher Partner model but with one key difference. This paper…