Abstract
...In-service training of teachers, in one form or another, has been an integral part of the complete educational program in most good school systems for many years. School administrators and others charged with responsibility for maintaining a well-rounded program of learning for every child have long recognized that the training of teachers for their important task is a continuing process and not one that ends when the credential and the degree are granted. New teachers in school systems everywhere make this a program of particular importance today.
That is the purpose of this study, therefore, to study the needs for such a training program after looking at the conditions now existing in the Arden-Carmichael Union School District of Sacramento County, and then to propose a program of future in-service training. The needs for such a program will be determined in direct relationship to the aims of elementary education as set forth in the State Framework of Education. In order to do this, it will be necessary to review some of the reasons why in-service programs have been developed, and to discuss some of the many techniques of in-service education that have been used by other school systems. It is proposed also to review the entire program of in-service teacher training in the Arden-Carmichael Union School District...