This list of eight guidelines includes a brief review of the literature related to differentiated staffing and a description of the historical development and implementation of differentiated staffing in one school district. It is based on the Mentor Ohio Exempted Village School District's five years' experience with differentiated staffing in two…

This paper idsucsses the J. Lloyd Trump (NAASP) model of differentiated staffing and compares it with that of Dwight Allen (Stanford University.) The general rewards and pitfalls of differentiated staffing are discussed, and the author concludes that although these two models have served as the basis for all significant differentiated staffing…

This document is a learning packet for differentiated staffing. Chapters include behavioral objectives of differentiated staffing, a learning packet, pre-assessment instruments, differentiated staffing assumptions, factors to be considered in a differentiated staffing program, a differentiated staffing definition, differentiated staffing models,…

Describes the staffing pattern at Top of the World Elementary School, Laguna Beach, California. (Auhor)

First of six articles from a special feature on differentiated staffing.

The purpose of the study reported in this five-chapter document was to develop a model of differentiated teaching personnel based on student learning needs and to test the rationale for developing that model. The resultant semantic model (presented and illustrated in chapter 4 of the report) is designed to provide for effective interaction between…

This review surveys documents previously cited in RIE that deal with the concept, the accompanying controversy, programs in operation, and several models for implementation and evaluation. Also included are a discussion of the problems in adopting such organizational and role changes and a list of bibliographies on differentiated staffing. Thirty…

This School Personnel Utilization battery is designed to help evaluate school staffing models (see TM 001 210). The battery itself contains three instruments. A Components Analysis instrument was devised to study the question of comprehensiveness. The second instrument, a Constraints Checklist, was developed to determine the extent to which the…

This report describes school operation changes in scheduling, curriculum, decisionmaking powers, and individualization of instruction that are concurrent with the adoption of differentiated staffing. The author defines differentiated staffing, explains where and at what levels it has been utilized, provides descriptions of results achieved, gives…

This paper discusses a technique for evaluating the comprehensiveness, feasibility and viability of project models. The developed technique is based on the assumption that a school staffing model is an organizational pattern demonstrating certain specific characteristics. A method for describing these characteristics has also been developed as a…

This report gives a brief history of a differentiated staffing (DS) and outlines the major differences between horizontal and vertical differentiation. The Temple City model provides an example of vertical differentiation, while the Top of the World Elementary School plan is given as a model of horizontal differentiation. Obstacles to DS…

This report is the first in a series describing the background, theory, and progress of the Differentiated Staffing Project in the Eugene, Oregon, School District. This particular report reviews the history of the project and outlines the organizational structure that has emerged and developed in the experimental elementary schools. A number of…