This document is part of a revised series of five publications, planning for Inservice Education, which was originally published in 1976 in five units. This introductory monograph provides a discussion of the generic principles of effective planning for inservice education programs. The contents are divided into an overview of the planning model, discussions of the purposes of inservice education and of the planning involved in the design of an inservice program, a set of three case studies of actual programs under way, and a discussion of evaluation methods used to critique inservice teacher education programs. A bibliography is appended. (LH)