Designed to assist science educators in improving inservice teacher education, this yearbook contains resources and ideas addressing the application of recent research into a format suitable for practitioners. The eight chapters comprising the document deal with: (1) meeting the needs of science teachers for continuing education; (2) guidelines for effective science teacher inservice (including perspectives from research); (3) assessing teachers' needs for inservice; (4) a paradigm for staff development planning; (5) structures for the delivery of inservice program models; (6) the evaluation of staff development (with an emphasis on staff development becoming a process rather than an event); (7) a planner's guide to inservice; and (8) a response to the entire document. Examples of inservice needs assessments, time inservice plans, and checklists are provided. (TW)