Focuses on the use of the Child Development Project (California) with young children as a means of promoting prosocial behavior. Discusses the selection of cooperative tasks relative to developmental considerations and the role of the teacher in selecting activities. Points out some activities which have been successfully used with early…

The Iowa Behavioral Initiative is a staff development venture designed to help educators with the increasingly complex student behaviors which seem to defy former standards of intervention. Participation in the Initiative activities provides general and special educators with practical, validated strategies for dealing with student behavior…

Fairy tales can be used in the classroom to promote normal growth and development as well as carry a message of hope and faith in the strength and goodness of humans. Because fairy tales are imaginative literature, readers can safely experience and work through scary situations which are analogous to situations in real life. Bibliotherapy refers…

This paper defines student development education as a concept which refers to professional roles of administrators, instructors, and counselors in a competency-based learning system designed to enable students to become more of what they want to be. A student development model is delineated whose essential components include student goal setting…