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| Teaching Research Inservice Model (TRIM). A programs to assist educators in designing, delivering, and evaluating staff development activities. |
Audience Approved by PEP for educators, inservice trainers, and individuals or agencies with staff development responsibilities.
Description The Teaching Research Inservice Model (TRIM) represents a process for the design, development, and evaluation of inservice training efforts. As a part of recent school improvement and reform efforts school districts are looking at systematic, comprehensive staff development planning as one tool to assist them in meeting their educational goals. This training model provides a school or district with a model for the development of both long and short range staff development goals. Personnel who are primarily trained as educators are provided, through this model, a means for developing training activities that will make a difference in classroom teaching. The Teaching Research Inservice Model will assist the adopter in identifying desired outcomes of training and then designing training strategies to achieve those outcomes. The model provides the trainer with objectives, activities, and evaluation strategies aimed at teaching the trainee new skills and/or procedures that can be implemented in the classroom. Specific content of the training is to be determined by the adopter's needs.
Evidence of Effectiveness The Teaching Research Inservice Model was validated with evidence of impact at three levels: (1) utilizing the components of the TRIM, training could be designed that would teach new skills to teachers; (2) teachers who were trained implemented the major features of the training; and (3) implementation resulted in improved student performance.
Requirements Implementation of the Teaching Research Inservice Model requires attendance at a two-day training session by key staff selected by the adopting district. Training may take place at the home program site or the adopter's site. Follow-up technical assistance is available.
Costs Training costs include $600 plus travel expenses for two presenters and $15-$25 per participant (usually 20 per session) for workshop materials. Costs may be negotiated between the site, the State Facilitator, and Teaching Research.
Services Awareness materials are available at no cost. Visitors are welcome at the program site by appointment. Project staff are available to attend out-of-state awareness meetings (costs to be negotiated). Training is conducted at the program site or the adopter's site. Costs to adopters include a portion of travel, per diem, and materials. Follow-up services are available to adopters (costs to be negotiated).
Developmental Funding: USOE BEH.
JDRP No. 79-34 (11/7/79)
Recertified (4/94)
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