Provides brief descriptions of models of general types of environmental leadership programs. Summarizes the characteristics of conventional approaches to teaching values and skills. Also, elaborates on four examples of leadership programs, reviewing their distinctive features. (ML)

Four educational models are presented; then the implications of these models for discipline are explored and explicated. The aim is to promote a greater awareness of the theoretical assumptions which motivate different attitudes toward discipline, thereby creating a more solid basis both for understanding and for intelligent action. (Author/KC)

The paper identifies behavioral and learning characteristics of the underachieving gifted and the challenges in working with such students. Methods are outlined for adapting Joseph Renzulli's Triad Model in terms of curriculum content, process, product, and learning environment to meet student needs. Consideration of the affective domain is also…

Sample activities for gifted children to develop futuristic leadership skills and a model for developing leaders through future-aimed instruction are presented. (PHR)

A long-range program of staff development must be an integral part of any process of program development and maintenance. (Author/PHR)

Discusses the inadequacy of educational programs for special groups--the handicapped/deficient and the exceptional. Offers suggestions for art activities for both groups, focusing on Reeve and Kauffman's four models (psychodynamic, humanistic, biophysical, ecological) to create activities for the handicapped/deficient and describing activities…

The materials in this resource kit were developed at a summer workshop to provide teachers with suggestions and specific classroom activities to promote sex equity attitudes in elementary school students. Among the products included in the kit are a set of ditto worksheets, for primary students, to reinforce their understanding of the book…

Intended for teachers of students with behavior problems, this manual provides information on developing and maintaining a positive classroom environment and managing specific behavioral difficulties. Major emphasis is placed on the importance of encouraging affective development among all students. The manual's first section addresses effective…

The orthodox view of reading as the accumulation of isolated skills continues to dominate classroom practice. Under this framework, prescriptions for problem readers usually involve intensified drills in the same basic skills to which the students failed to respond in the first place. Prevention entails the early and often precipitous examination…

This teacher's manual is one volume of a six volume curriculum for the secondary level, designed to provide a systematic, group-oriented approach to decision-making in areas crucial to adolescent development: work, drug (substance) use and abuse, sexuality and social relationships, juvenile law, and people and government. The manual is divided…

It is proposed that a paradigm for training English-as-a-Second-Language teachers based on the educational philosophy of Paolo Freire would provide a more humanistic approach to the education of minority language groups. Freire's writings are reviewed, focusing on his plea for greater consciousness about the rights of others and the political…

Invitational education is a general framework for thinking and acting about what is believed to be worthwhile in schools. It centers on five basic principles: (1) people are able, valuable, and responsible, and should be treated accordingly; (2) educating should be a collaborative, cooperative activity; (3) the process is the product in the…