In-Service Vocational Education Personnel Development for the 1980's. Leadership Training Series No. 43.

Overview & Synopsis

The report of the seminar on inservice vocational education personnel development contains the transcripts of 14 speeches and the reports of six discussion groups. The papers are organized under four main headings: the context of inservice education, which contains three papers on inservice education philosophy, requirements, and responsibility; industry, business, and education cooperation, which contains three papers on inservice personnel development programs and patterns in Texas, Oklahoma, and New York State; competency/performance based personnel development, which contains five papers on performance based teacher education programs for the general needs of vocational teachers and for the specific needs of agriculture teachers, and certification standards and needs; and models, strategies, and change, which contains three papers on an evaluation model, strategies of personnel development of vocational education in Canada, and change in the schools. The six discussion group topics are: principles and strategies of inservice personnel development; needs identification and program evaluation; supervising teachers; recertification and competency based standards; trends, issues, and problems in inservice teacher education; and career development for professional personnel. The seminar program and seminar staff are included. (JR)