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Download full textReiff, Henry B.; And Others – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 1992
A study of 71 individuals with specific learning disabilities and moderate to high vocational success revealed commonalities in the ways they were able to achieve, including a strong desire for success, goal orientation, ability to interpret the disability experience, persistence, selection of an appropriate work environment, learned creativity,…
Descriptors: Creativity, Exceptional Persons, Goal Orientation, Help Seeking
Peer reviewedZumwalt, Karen Kepler – Teachers College Record, 1984
New mothers and beginning teachers face many of the same types of feelings and experiences as they learn to cope with their new roles. Implications for changing the conditions of support for new teachers and suggestions for involving more individuals in teaching are offered. (DF)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedGiven, Barbara K. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1994
Operation Breakthrough, in which graduate student interns teach life skills to adolescents with learning disabilities, provided an impetus for identifying a profile of learning and work habits necessary for production of an agile workforce. Agile learning for self-systems improvement calls for self-empowered learning, collaborative learning,…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Goal Orientation, Higher Education, Labor Force Development
