ABSTRACT
This chapter considers some aspects of what is known about effective staff development by looking at a particular initiative which was designed to link the individual development of teachers with school improvement at the institutional level. It addresses the some of the difficulties outlined by Fullan. The chapter stresses the important role that outside supporters have to play in the development of collaborative attempts to link individual and institutional development. In times of rapid change within the education service, the place of in-service training (INSET) has become not only the subject of change in itself but also has been seen as having the power to play a central role in facilitating the changes which are seen to be required in schools. The process coincided with the delegation of INSET budgets and the government's imposition of training days in schools.
