This article presents guidelines to the teacher for planning and conducting a field trip. (SJL)

Six areas need consideration in establishing a program of paid aides: selecting a coordinator, planning with the professional staff, recruiting and selecting, matching aide strengths to program needs, orientation and training, and program monitoring. (SJL)

Describes new, effective physical education programs and activities. (FL)

Recognizing the diversity in experience and training among teacher aides, the Yucaipa School District established a formal inservice program for this employee group. This article describes how the district developed a seminar program to help instructional aides in improving their skills. Reactions to the program were favorable. (Author/SJL)

A description of the development and operation of the home-school conferencing program at Frederick Roehm Junior High School in Berea, Ohio. (SJL)

States the reasons the Office of Teacher Education at the Irvine campus of the University of California decided to offer alternatives to traditional teacher education programs, gives a number of items to consider in creating such alternatives, and sets forth selection and evaluation criteria that can help ensure a quality alternative program. (FL)

Describes the development of a program that used fantasy characters and images to improve the spelling of children. (FL)

Discusses four reasons why mainstreaming has made slow progress. (FL)

The author outlines steps for organizing a successful workshop. A planning checklist and flow chart are included. (SJL)

Major theories of attitude change are explained: stimulus-response and reinforcement theory, functional theory, social judgment theory, and consistency theory. These theories are applied to the problems of influencing staff toward implementing a program of moral education. (Author/SJL)

Proposes the use of an adaptive inservice model, which describes the mechanisms by which educational change and professional growth occur. Argues that to implement effective inservice programs based on the adaptive model, the program must be systematic, long-term, and guided by a common set of goals and expectations. (FL)

Describes an intervention model developed and implemented in a secondary school with a high suspension rate and a disproportionately high suspension rate for minority group students. (FL)

Discusses the conditions necessary for the development of an effective program of administrative staff development, and describes the critical features of such a program. (Author/SJL)

The dissemination to 125 schools of a secondary individualized reading program created by P. K. Yonge Laboratory School was accomplished by a workshop and by the formation into implementation teams of persons responsible for different levels of decisions. Evaluations support the use of this team-based change strategy. (SJL)

Describes how one community (1) realized it had a problem with disaffected and troubled youth; (2) began to learn about the problem; (3) gradually shaped a youth program and then expanded it to reach younger teens; and (4) regained its young people. (SR)