Vocational Education for the Handicapped: Perspectives on Inservice Personnel Development. Personnel Development Series: Document 6.

Overview & Synopsis

This document is a monograph in a personnel development series addressing issues that are pertinent for policy-making personnel concerned with inservice personnel development of vocational/special educators. Chapter 1 addresses the state of the art in inservice education and includes a definition and information on legislative provisions, the problem of attitude, content of inservice education programs, target populations, and alternative modes of delivery. Chapter 2 on planning inservice models discusses the awareness, readiness, commitment, planning, implementation, and maintenance phases. A rationale and suggested activities are provided for each phase. A description of the specific steps to be followed in using a comprehensive planning model is listed. Chapter 3 addresses procedural concerns encountered during the implementation stage. Site selection, format, content scheduling, resource selection, and followup are discussed relative to short- and long-term inservice training approaches. Specific strategies and tenets of change agent theory to be considered in inservice education are presented. Chapter 4 offers a set of recommendations and evaluation questions that can be used to guide an evaluation of an inservice model. Specific suggestions for data collection are included for each evaluation question. (YLB)