Higher Educations's Role in Inservice Education: Highlights of a Leadership Training Institute Held in Atlanta, Georgia, December 1-3, 1976.

Overview & Synopsis

This report consists of excerpts from manuscripts and oral presentations, summaries of group work and individual evaluation forms, quotations from taped interviews, and editorial paraphrases that highlight the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) institute program on higher education's role in inservice education. Eight topics are presented. The first presentation analyzes the different, but effective, approaches to the inservice education of teachers and offers a rationale for the wide range of practices that exist. It is followed by a reaction paper. The second presentation attends to the circumstances of inservice education in higher education and suggests some changes to be considered by members of the higher education community. It, too, is followed by reaction comments. The third selection offers some views of teaching and teacher education that require serious examination, if not outright rejection, according to the author, and is followed by reaction statements. The fourth presentation is a summary of small group discussions on definitions and purposes of inservice education and higher education's role in inservice education. The fifth section presents resumes of state--Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina--plans for inservice education. Sixth, resumes of university and school inservice education programs are presented. The seventh section consists of participants' comments about the institute program and suggestions for improving future institutes. Eighth is a memorandum addressed to the faculty of the College of Education at Wright State University that serves as an example of the impact of the institute on its participants. Appendix A lists the roster of program personnel; Appendix B is the program's schedule of events. (MM)