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)

This description of a program which enables a map library to augment its staff with volunteers from other departments includes objectives for the map assistants, the map librarian, and the institution; qualities that are looked for in participants; and problem-solving reading/discussion exercises designed to increase participants' skills. (JD)

Discusses the historically low status and low image of teachers within the profession and with the public. Presents a view of staff development programs as involving teachers in setting goals, improving conditions of teaching and learning, and deriving personal and professional meaning from their work. (Author/MK)