Annual National Vocational Education Personnel Development Seminar. (8th, Madison, Wisconsin, October 28-31, 1974). In-Service Vocational Education Personnel Development for the 1980's. Leadership Training Series No. 43.

Overview & Synopsis

This report contains the proceedings of a seminar on "In-service Vocational Education Personnel Development for the 1980's," which consisted of two keynote addresses, a series of presentations, and group discussions. Chapter I, The Context of Inservice Education, includes three presentations: Philosophical Bases, Trends, and Issues for Inservice Education (keynote address); Vocational Education and Requirements of Inservice Education for the 1980's; and Responsibility and Accountability for Inservice Vocational Education. Chapter II, Industry, Business, and Education Cooperation, contains three presentations which discuss inservice personnel development programs and patterns in Texas, Oklahoma, and New York. Chapter III includes five presentations on competency/performance-based personnel development. Chapter IV, Models, Strategies, and Change, contains the following three titles: A Model to Evaluate Inservice Personnel Development in Vocational-Technical Education; Strategies of Personnel Development for Vocational Education in Canada; and Change in the Schools or the More Things Change the More They Seem to Remain the Same (keynote address). In chapter V, the proceedings include reports of six discussion groups: Principles and Strategies of Inservice Personnel Development; Needs Identification for and Program Evaluation of Inservice Personnel Development; Supervising Teachers: Selection, Renewal, and Rewards; Recertification and Competency-Based Standards; Trends, Issues, and Problems of Inservice Teacher Education; and Career Development for Professional Personnel. Appendixes contain the seminar program and a list of seminar staff. (LMS)