Staff development programs aiming to effect meaningful change are often short-lived and fail to promote teacher growth due to (1) lack of teacher control over program content; (2) the difficulty of influencing long-term changes in teachers' classroom behavior; and (3) the problem of documenting behavior change. This paper discusses a…

This guidebook is one in the Target Topic Series developed to highlight issues and concerns related to effective community education operation. It is intended for the community educator who is responsible for working with the community education program staff--both paid and volunteer. A pretest covers material discussed in the guidebook. The…

An evaluation report is presented of the Resident Supervisory Support for Teachers, a peer supervision program designed to improve classroom instruction by training school personnel in concepts and strategies of school supervision, with an emphasis on a peer clinical approach. Participants are trained to help teachers identify their strengths and…

A study examined the impact of assuming the role of action researcher in one's own classroom as an example of inquiry-oriented, professional staff development. The study was a part of a comprehensive, longitudinal investigation of the impact of certain professional development experiences on K-12 classroom teachers. A review of the literature and…

An emphasis on full staff involvement has been the focus of school improvement efforts at Beacon Hill Elementary School in Kelso, Washington. Following a process for improvement through the application of effective schooling research results in instructional programs, the school has involved staff in planning, goal setting, and extensive inservice…

As a professional development tool, coaching is a process of systematic observation of another's instructional behavior with subsequent nonjudgemental feedback. It is a natural follow-up to a recent training event or experience and is extensively used within industrial contexts. Well-trained feedback personnel, including peers, team leaders,…

Intended for educational leaders, this three-section monograph presents information and perspectives regarding support given to beginning teachers. The first section reviews a variety of perspectives on the purposes that teacher induction programs can serve. Among the perspectives discussed are those based on studies of beginning teachers'…

The Single Skill Training (SST) Courses were developed to meet staff development needs by providing short, concentrated training modules in the areas of mainstreaming handicapped students, providing individualized instruction, and implementing a Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). The program was set up to offer staff development courses to public…

The Project ACCESS (Adapting Curriculum Content for Exceptional Secondary Students) resource guide is designed to help regular classroom teachers provide successful experiences to mildly handicapped mainstreamed students through the adaptation of the curriculum. The concerns-based approach, which was used successfully by Project ACCESS, focuses on…

The report examines accomplishments of project UPSTART, an intervention approach for young severely multihandicapped infants and their families. The project's outreach provided assistance at six sites, three of which were new. Outreach accomplishments are evaluated according to six objectives, including stimulation of program development,…

This volume contains papers presented at a symposium which focused on ways to mediate or tailor change facilitation efforts. The symposium's purpose was to: (1) describe and analyze the best clinical attempts to use Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) tools as guides for mediating staff development efforts; (2) present a conceptual scheme for…

Describes the Human Relations program for secretaries which was experimented with at the University of Northern Colorado during the 1973-74 school year. (Author/JA)

College administrators need to understand staff development as an integral part of the total process of organizational development. A 6-stage paradigm is suggested as one conceptual framework within which a college may identify and act upon its staff development needs. (Editor/PG)

This handbook tells how to identify and afford on-the-job development for administrators and supervisors of a school system or other institution and at the same time how to evaluate them. Developmental performance evaluation, the book says, is similar to Management by Objectives and Program Planning Budgeting Systems and can be used in conjunction…

A study was conducted to examine and evaluate the impact of the Cooperative Information Network (CIN) Staff Development Project (CIN-SD) in individual CIN libraries and to recommend methods for establishing on-going staff development programs in libraries. This report presents findings gathered from a survey employing questionnaires and…