The Follow Through Title I Expansion Program involving kindergarten through third-grade classes in 28 schools in Philadelphia District 1-7 was evaluated in 1979-1980 in the areas of classroom process/implementation, achievement, parent involvement, staff development and supportive services. The evaluation report consists of 22 tables of data with…

This three year project was designed to provide staff development to principals, vice principals and other school administration special education issues relating to the implementation of Public Law 94-142. In 1979, sixty-three administrators participated in a week long summer workshop, during which project staff and speakers from within the…

To reveal evolving strategies for and existing problems in performance appraisal, this report summarizes recently published research findings and expert opinions. The first section examines the purposes of performance appraisal in organizations, discusses the relationship of appraisal to the job description, and presents an overview of the basic…

The purpose of this study was to survey the agencies and individuals presently conducting infant/toddler development (ITD) programs in the Los Angeles County area to determine whether the agencies were operated by public or private organizations; the educational background of the individuals staffing these programs and the respondents'…

Inservice education is primarily planned and justified on the basis of its contribution to and impact upon the classroom. Although the student must remain central, staff development programs can and must concurrently address and relate to other institutional and/or organizational goals and objectives. Inservice or staff development should not be…

The final report summarizes the activities, findings, and recommendations of an Illinois demonstration project to field test a new curriculum ("We Can Help") on the identification, reporting, referral and case management of child abuse. Sections of the report provide information on the original plan of operations, project staff, planning…

A unifying set of pedagogical criteria which would establish an objective basis for a staff development needs assessment is outlined. Generic teaching skills are identified: diagnosis, prescription, classroom management, use of instructional materials and resources, and human relations. Specific skills in the instruction of mathematics, reading,…

In an attempt to determine the attitudes of teachers toward inservice education and the roles teachers play in it, this paper records the personal perspectives of a small group of teachers, reflects these views against the literature, and indicates some possible directions. Conceptual and operational defnitions of inservice education are provided,…

This booklet contains case studies of inservice staff development programs that were implemented as organizational responses to school desegregation in six midwestern school districts. The districts range in student population from 6,000 to 44,000, and were initially desegregated between 1970 and 1978. A team of interviewers visited each of the…

The project described in this executive summary was designed to identify: the unmet vocational rehabilitation training needs of state agency staffs; courseware being used; other training materials being used or needed in the future; and the potential of telecommunications technologies to deliver the needed training. The project's oranizational and…

The complexities of designing and operating inservice education programs are examined. This publication is organized into four major areas. Chapter one defines the interrelated series of current staff development activities as observed by the authors. Chapter two contains findings that have influenced thinking about the problems discussed in the…

Problem solving techniques were used by a Long Beach (California) Unified School District team that was charged with the responsibility of designing and implementing a course in black culture for certified employees of the district. The team used a four phase approach. First they defined the problem faced by the school district: that no course in…

Several models of curriculum and staff development are described to provide guidance toward the goal of harmoniously blending a humanized curriculum and humanized instruction. The author compares the "explosive" and "implosive" designs for program development and instruction and argues that the implosive design should be adopted and that…

This learning module introduces the Concerns Based Adoption Model, which identifies seven developmental stages in the process of adopting innovations. After listing the stages and citing statements which might typify a person's degree of concern with the innovation, the module provides brief descriptions of: (1) the awareness stage, which is…

The Head Start Supplementary Training Program offered college education and training opportunities to Head Start employees in order to enable them to become more skilled and responsible staff members and to increase their earning power and job security. The training program offered academic programs leading to Associate of Arts and Bachelor of…