Paper attempts to show that it is possible to help young people modify their actions in the area of risk-taking behavior through stressing the consequences of motivation. (Author/CB)

Offers a definition and classification scheme for staff development and an analysis of types of staff development programs. The analysis provides staff development coordinators with a realistic view of what different approaches can accomplish and permits a classification along institutional and individual dimensions that is complementary rather…

If a principal is to serve others effectively, he must first serve himself. A program is outlined for personal health and well-being. (Author/MLF)

The central implication of this study of the needs of teachers is that most of the changes in structure necessary to provide a fertile environment for teachers with higher order needs can be wrought by the building principal. (Author/IRT)

The principal is expected to resolve conflict that stems from school board policy clashing with personal need. Board policy of necessity deals in generalities. A parallel is drawn between the principal and the sin-eater--the man who, for little payment, was believed to consume the sins of the deceased. (Author/MLF)

The large school must organize itself to recognize individual human needs or face continual disruption. The author concludes that the specifics depend upon a constellation of factors inherent in any given situation. (Editor)

Administrators can improve their effectiveness by understanding and applying the research findings about motivation and job satisfaction to their relationships with teachers. (Author/MLF)

The new higher standards required of entering collegiate athletes will not immediately create change in the performance and attitudes of student athletes. Academic performance of student athletes can be enhanced through the development of a comprehensive program fusing the relationship between athletics and academics. (MD)

Individualized instruction is a highly flexible system of multiple materials, media, and procedures in which the student, given greater responsibility for his own learning, begins on the level he is able to perform and learns systematically at his own pace. With this definition, the author describes several methods of individualized instruction.…

Career education is not a panacea, the authors admit, but in it they see a step toward a solution to many of the problems and difficulties in today's society and schools. (Editor)

Everything that educators have learned aabout individual differences and learning styles as they relate to pacing is negated by tests that disregard such evidence. Unless they are improved, competency tests are likely to seriously damage the educational process. (CJH)

Many school districts have adopted minimum competency tests as part of the requirements for high school diplomas. It is important that the needs of special education students are included when planning and implementing competency testing. Included are three levels of options to consider for modified testing of special students. (MD)