Four-H related inservice training refers to the ongoing, regular, and systemic preparation of county staff members. The areas covered are: (1) history, philosophy, objectives, and scope of Extension and 4-H and other youth work; (2) adult participation; (3) organization; (4) adult and junior leadership; (5) recognition and public relations; (6)…

This report explores the pros and cons of the PPBS management tool. It gives specific examples from school systems and describes steps in each element of PPBS, stressing (1) planning to involve everyone in formulation of instructional and noninstructional goals, (2) programing to give every school program an accomplishment that can be measured…

In 1971, the Show-Me Extension Program Planning Unit of the University of Missouri Extension Division was selected for study as an area of program planning. The study was designed to gather information about extension personnel, extension leaders, and the general public in order to help strengthen programs in the area and in the state. Data were…

The recommendations of the Commission on Post-Secondary Education in Ontario, as contained in the Commission's draft report (see AC 012 607), are examined by the Ontario Department of Adult Education. Each of the Commission's 72 recommendations is listed with the Department's comments. The Department strongly recommends that the Ontario Government…

This document reports results of the activities engaged in by Leeward Community College in its second year of participation in the Advanced Institutional Development Program. Four primary areas were focused on in the college's development efforts: community outreach, student services, curriculum and instruction, and institutional renewal/staff…

Suggestions for improving the state of the humanities in two-year colleges are presented, based on the findings of a nationwide study of humanities faculty. Among the policy recommendations are: (1) administrators/faculty leaders should organize lay committees as advisors to humanities programs and should involve humanities instructors with such…

This paper describes an emerging model for a comprehensive staff and organizational development program as a continuous and integral activity of the college, and discusses the role of the office of institutional research in such programs. A comprehensive program includes instructional development (instructional evaluation, diagnosis,…

Staff development programs are needed in community colleges as a result of stabilizing enrollments, decreased faculty mobility, technological and disciplinary changes, student population changes, and the need for professional variety and personal growth. Suggestions concerning the role of the speech-communication teacher in staff development are…

Perceptions of community college faculty and administrators concerning faculty development needs, and of faculty incentive systems, institutional climate, and institutional values as they relate to faculty development, were compared in this study. A Faculty Development Inventory was mailed to a random sample of 75 administrators and 150 faculty at…

The author discusses the self-actualization and self-growth of staff members within an organizational setting. Staff aspirations and the various factors which determine their satisfaction or frustration are discussed. (SE)

In a recent experience in the Manitoba provincial government, an active, varied, and largely homegrown system-wide "open systems" approach for the design and delivery of staff development and training became operational in only 18 months. The development and implementation of the strategy and some significant results are recounted.…

Presented as a fairy tale with the characters of Snow White and the seven dwarves, this paper points out some of the professional, emotional, and health characteristics and problems of individual teachers, and ways an administrator might deal with them. (SJL)

A program for staff employees of the University of California (Santa Barbara) was developed to increase awareness of career possibilities, increase knowledge of how to reach those possibilities, and develop self-confidence to translate thinking into action. First year program results showed substantial attitude and career changes among trainees.…

Staff development is viewed from the perspective of teacher unionists, specifically the United Federation of Teachers (UFT). The growth of the union contract in its social context is discussed as well as the union's role in the development of the greater professionalization of teachers. (JMF)

Suggestions for principals to help teachers counter the energy drain caused by teaching, the limited technology of teaching that leads to self-doubt, and the aloneness of teaching. (Author/MLF)