This book was written for anyone in an educational setting who wants to deliver presentations to support transforming changes. The first chapter provides background for how to present when the intent is to transform. The two dominant staff-development tasks are the modification of the culture of the workplace and the modification of the teachers'…

The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development believes firmly that school media programs are essential to the development of a personalized approach to learning and to the creation of more humane schools. (1 reference) (Author/SJ)

This performance evaluation program, or staff improvement system, is designed with the premise that it will serve 99 percent of the staff in helping them to improve their competency in order to more effectively help the learner. (Author)

The National Advisory Council's report ( People for the People's College'') will hopefully stimulate organizations, groups and individuals to formulate, design and implement staff development plans. (RN)

The author believes that a highly qualified and mature executive serving as a management coach may be a valuable method to overcome communication gaps existing between different divisions of an industry. (EK)

It is the responsibility of the public schools to provide an opportunity for student teachers to acquire the best professional training possible. (CK)

Discusses the problem of turnover among nurses and proposes the use of networking as a means of retaining nursing staff. The plan relies on aspects of the nursing process--assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation--to retain quality nursing staff. (JOW)

The Toronto Board of Education developed a program to educate teaching and nonteaching staff about management of abuse and neglect in the schools. Reporting procedures emphasize coordination, team consultation, and professional responsibility. Staff training consisted of seminars which were met with generally positive response. (CL)

Describes a training program designed to bring a competency-based adult education process approach to staff development for English-as-a-Second-Language instructors. (SK)

Discusses factors involved in the current West German crises of confidence in the value and relevance of higher education. The author suggests ways that staff development programs can contribute to the solution of these problems. (AM)

This article describes the stages and processes in the growth of a self-development group, designed to increase a manager's capacity and willingness to be responsible for his/her own learning. Availability: M.E.A.D. Subscriptions, C.S.M.L., University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YX, England. (SK)

Fred Wood and Steven Thompson claim that inservice educational practices should be changed because, first, more adults are operating at a lower stage of cognitive development than previously believed, and, second, adults prefer learning in informal social situations. This article challenges the adequacy of the research analysis underlying these…

Defends the claims made in an earlier publication by the authors that inservice programs should be more experiential because the cognitive development of adults is less uniformly advanced than previously supposed and because experiential learning is more effective. Cites additional supportive research. (PGD)