Building effective successful teams: An interactive teaming model for inservice education

While methods for developing and delivering quality inservice education cur rently are receiving attention, few researchers or practitioners have focus ed on delivering inservice education to teams rather than individuals. The interactive teaming model for inservice education described in this article builds upon the essential components of quality inservice education and wa s designed for use by teams of early childhood personnel (e.g., Head Starts , public preschools). A description of the inservice model, its critical fe atures, how these features are linked with an interactive teaming format an d results of preliminary participant evaluations are also presented.