Between 1975 and 1977 an instructional research team and a Teacher Corps Project at Hopkinsville Middle School in Kentucky began the development of an inservice teacher education program designed to combine the experience of inservice teachers with the knowledge of university faculty. This report contains samples of the results of this type of…

The purpose of this manual is to present in a practical way the ideas from pre-elementary Right to Read programs that they may help to enrich and expand other early childhood education programs. Besides dealing with assessment, skill areas, and activities, the manual supplies other relevant information on the following topics: (1) dimensions of a…

Attempts to improve urban school systems have been many and varied. Still there has been little appreciable improvement in the quality and/or results of urban education. One primary reason why the "innovations" have failed is that most of them have been introduced into an ongoing social system with little or no attempt to assess their effects on…

An evaluation study examined the effectiveness of the training and technical assistance provided, amount and type of assistance provided, and results and benefits of a project to provide community education training and technical assistance in Kentucky. Result evaluation data were obtained from community education practitioners by a questionnaire.…

Resulting from a 3 year project to develop and test competency based programs for camp personnel serving the physically handicapped, the document contains a manual for training the camp director. An introductory section gives an explanation of competency based instruction, a description of a module, and an overview of the camp director training…

In 1977, 13 staff development projects were initiated in California under ESEA Title IV-C. The task of each project was to design and implement a unique system for developing a comprehensive staff development program. The materials in this book describe one of the 13 staff development projects: a "Service Center" for staff development that was…

The Leadership Development Program (L.D.P.) was begun in 1978-79 by the Vancouver (British Columbia) School Board to provide leadership development opportunities for educators who aspire to or show potential for leadership. This evaluation was undertaken through questionnaires assessing participant opinions of the general value of the program and…

The report describes the activities of Model Vision Project, a Tennessee program which diagnosed multiply disabled children and adolescents with visual problems and provided services to those children and their families and workshops and conferences for staff training. The first section provides an overview of the project and descriptions of the…

Changing curriculum, shifting student populations, and technological and societal demands require that school staff remain actively and continuously involved in staff development programs; because of these issues and the new mandated programs, more stable teaching workforce, and numerous and varied programs in Michigan, the Michigan Department of…

This set of objectives is designed to increase teachers' knowledge about the historical and cultural heritage of Afro-Americans. Instructional materials and learning activities which can be used in meeting each of the objectives are listed. A preassessment test, criteria for measuring each objective, and numerous reference and resource citations…

This set of training modules presents a general curriculum which addresses the theory, principles and procedures of behavior therapy modification techniques. It is meant to be used in a variety of hospitals, schools, and human development centers; thus it represents a common core of training upon which individual settings can build to provide…

This report presents the findings of a survey that sought to relate the status of Texas academic librarians to national standards. Consisting of 70 questions in seven categories--identification of library staff, general (status), appointment, promotion and tenure, professional development, governance, and benefits--the survey was based, in part,…

This model for an inservice workshop is based on an ongoing relationship between a college or university (acting as consultant) and an instructional staff. The workshop is built around an actual problem situation facing the staff, in this case, the task of providing remediation in conjunction with the Florida State Assessment Test. The design of…

A basic skills program designed for first- to sixth-grade students who were underachieving in reading or arithmetic was evaluated. The program was designed to raise the students' levels of achievement and to improve their attitudes toward learning. A staff development program designed to introduce teachers to new methods of teaching basic skills,…

The instructor-free, empirically-based training package focuses on planning for a program or total agency for severely handicapped, developmentally disabled persons and is intended to assist agencies develop a participatory management system for ongoing program planning and evaluation within the trainee's agency. The package consists of a trainee…