In-service education of Adult Basic Education (ABE) instructional staff by the unit of the school system or other institution that sponsors the ABE program is the focus of this monograph. The four interrelated purposes of the monograph are: (1) to present a general framework that planners can use in developing in-service education, using basic…

The overall purpose of the information and referral (I & R) staff training program is to develop staff competence in providing the services described and outlined in the operation manuals. Although there is some leeway regarding implementation of the full complement of I & R services, the total service as it is envisaged includes provision of…

The purpose of this project was to demonstrate the value of establishing an operations research program within a state vocational rehabilitation agency. To reach the objectives of the project, a research director was employed in the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department (1) to stimulate and coordinate research activities throughout…

During the 1969-70 and the 1970-71 fiscal years, Florida's public community colleges engaged in 796 staff and program development (SPD) activities. These activities included curriculum development, equipment acquisition, workshops, conferences, institutes, sabbaticals, extended study, professional leave, and institutional visitations. This report…

In a time of financial retrenchment, staff development involving factors external to the college (consultants, travel, workshops) must be reduced, yet staff development has been identified as the challenge to be met during the current decade. For the past year, Hagerstown Junior College (Maryland) has been operating an Instructional Clinic (IC)…

This document describes the rationale, development, and implementation of a coordinated college-wide staff development plan at Southeastern Community College. The plan, devised as a result of faculty and staff input, provides for the professional development and evaluation of all college staff: instructional personnel, administrative staff,…

The paper assesses the role of paid educational leave in various industry employment and training policies. All education was vocational, mostly for job-promotion training. Programs in the health care industry and in the U.S. Postal Service are summarized. (MF)

A staff development model synthesizing the /I/D/E/A/ and Rand studies of the change process in schools is presented. The discussion focuses on how the organizational self-interest of the various parties interested in staff development actually impede innovation. (JMF)

The role of the special resource teacher can be seen as that of a consultant to the classroom teacher in increasing the teacher's awareness of his or her own problem-solving experiences with the learning disabled child. (Author/PHR)

Characteristics of 48 industrial training methods taken from various research surveys are listed and analyzed, with implications for industrial teacher education. Forty-one of the methods are participatory for the recipient, and there is an almost even spread between group and individual training methods. (MF)

Reviews research in Britain and the United States on intervention with deprived preschool children and describes programs introduced in monitoring the problems of working with the staffs of six London (England) day nurseries. Particular difficulties in the project approach and implications for action research as a method are discussed. (MF)

Some perspectives on industrial arts' role in vocational education, general education, and the federal funding structure as presented by four speakers at the annual vocational convention. (SH)

Many drug agencies are now recognizing that in order to be effective in dealing with the changing drug problems, their staffs require additional training in many areas. This paper presents one method by which to assess training needs; this approach relies heavily on the needs identified by actual drug abuse agencies staff. (Author)

Appropriate preservice preparation is discussed for teachers who will be employed in a school where a local community-developed and state-approved "improvement program" is being conducted. (JD)

The author states that a hospital inservice education department must function as a management tool in delivering quality care to patients and that the nursing inservice educator should provide input into administration decisions that have educational implications. She describes an ineffective packaged program used in one hospital without…