Author provided a brief discussion of some of the most important elements that need attention in developing an independent study program. (Author/RK)

A reading program was described for students who stay at the Suffolk Children's Shelter, located in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. Its goals were to stimulate students, considered uncontrollable and incorrigible, to select their reading materials independently, to read those materials at comfortable rates, and to develop their reading…

Author described some of the techniques she used for teaching French at Roosevelt Junior High School, West Palm Beach. She also explained how these techniques helped students to maintain an early desire to learn a foreign language. (Author/RK)

Supervisors often need to solve complex problems through the process of interpersonal communication. The Effective Personal Communication Program, developed at the School of Education, University of Massachusetts, is based on a step-by-step approach to improving verbal and non-verbal communication. Here is a description of the program and a brief…

This article describes the initial steps taken to mainstream students classified as "educable mentally retarded" and then presents a twelve step curriculum development procedure for totally mainstreaming such students at a middle school. (Author/RK)

As an innovative, though perhaps temporary, stop-gap measure toward alleviating the problem of supplying paraprofessionals to library systems, especially in secondary schools, the author proposed a career work-study program developed in the area of media technology at the secondary school level. (Author/RK)

Described is a program, with developmental stages and focus areas, which has the potential for guiding supervising teachers, university supervisors, and coordinators of field experiences as they design and implement inservice programs directed toward improving the student teaching experience. (KC)