NASSP Bulletin

Inservice pro grams are more im portant today than ever before. To make them work, a high level of faculty involvement is needed in their de velopment and on going direction, ad vises this New Jersey sehool administrator.

This writer pro vides a workable checklist princi pals can use to as sess building level staff development programing.

The model presented in this article addresses three major areas: knowledge ac quisition, com petency or skill ac quisition, and the development of the significant experi ence. The authors base their sugges tions on experi ences at the In service Section of the Center for Pro fessional Develop ment at the Univer sity of Kentucky.

This writer de seribes how a teacher improve ment project was implemented at his school.

Mamy school personnel will be involved directly or indirectly in an in service effort. This article gives par ticular attention to providing per spectives and rec ommendations for the administrator who must fulfill an integrating and leadership role in inservice edu cation.

These writers de tail an approach to inservice programs that has proved highly successful in their school district.

Here's a model that can be used in systematizing the components of a supervisory pro gram to design pro fessional growth programs. It em phasizes that agreement between teachers and su pervisors should result in high pro gram appropri ateness and positive professional growth.

Two forms of col laborative planning for inservice edu cation have been identified: egalitar ian and dialectical. The local setting may render one form more appro priate than the other. A project di rector who is knowledgeable of both forms is better equipped to guide staff development. efforts.

The issue of teacher inservice education has received much at tention recently, but little of that at tention has focused on the unique needs of PE teachers, says this writer, who at tempts to fill that void.

This writer makes a plea to reconsider the nature of re search and training in educational ad ministration so that it can better fit the world of practicing school admin istrators.

These writers recently surveyed teachers about the difficulties they face in their class rooms and schools. The findings pre sent an interesting picture for admin istrators.

These writers suggest a number of ways principals can help teachers to reduce stress, and thus avoid burnout. The same tech niques, of course, will work for ad ministrators them selves.

This article presents the Phase II results of an on going two-year study of teacher stress. The Phase I results were re ported in the De cember 1981 Bulletin.

Cost of living and comparison of pay rates with neigh boring districts are two factors fre quently considered when district wage levels are evalu ated. This writer says that labor market competition must also be re viewed, and tells how to do it.

Use of the conflict-manage ment strategies de scribed on the fol lowing pages should allow for more effective and ef ficient management, according to these writers.

Attendance can be a problem in many schools. Here's a descrip tion of what one school did to handle the problem.

The morality of teaching is the re sponse we make to the power and the possibility that is within each of us to be, in the larger sense that the term implies, educators.