Describes a model of inservice education that is consistent with current view of language and learning, is capable of uncovering teachers' current beliefs about the nature of learning and the translation of those beliefs into practices, and has the potential for promoting and building alternative perspectives. (HOD)

Argues that teachers who are no longer learners must, by whatever means, be led to a point where they recognize that what they are doing in the classroom is not in the best interest of their students or themselves. (HOD)

Suggests that effective staff development involves a process that asks basic questions about the learner; about aims, goals, and objectives; about content; and about learning activities. (HOD)

Based on 10 years of doing inservice programs and other presentations in schools, the author offers several suggestions for giving an inservice presentation. (HOD)

Identifies five factors that contributed to the success of a two-week composition inservice teacher education program. (HOD)

Identifies critical factors in the acceptance and continuance of any inservice teacher education program. (HOD)

Offers a number of guidelines and workshop models for training teachers to use computers. (HOD)

Describes one inservice program in writing that produced a greater commitment to teaching on the part of the teachers involved. Discusses program elements that contributed to that commitment. (FL)

Describes a grand jury investigation into a school's purchase of allegedly objectionable and obscene materials and the inservice course on "Writing Rationales for Teaching Potentially Controversial Literature" resulting from the investigation. (DD)

Summarizes information from the ERIC database on the subject of writing instruction as a common responsibility of teachers from all disciplines. Focuses on the role of English teachers in promoting schoolwide writing programs. (RL)

Describes the Colorado Writing Project, a teacher-consultant inservice training program, and presents the results of holistic scoring of papers by students whose teachers had attended inservice meetings conducted by the teacher-consultants. (HTH)

Describes the West Virginia Writing Project, a long-term inservice training project based on team teaching, on-site consultants, and teacher input. (HTH)

Methodology and results of a survey on the amount of time devoted to locally sponsored inservice teacher education pertinent to English and language arts, the features of these programs, and their effectiveness are reported. (HTH)

Materials in the ERIC system on teacher inservice education and workshop activities are surveyed. (HTH)

Teachers are likely to create authentic learning environments for their students only if such contexts exist for them. However, it is more important than ever to look closely at professional development spaces that have been sustained over time in order to bolster teachers' agency, giving them the courage to teach against the grain. In this…