With the rise of mental health issues occurring on college campuses, college counseling centers are increasing their efforts to meet the needs of students by ensuring that students are able to matriculate in their educational journey. Over the past few years, national data indicated that annually about 38% of college students "felt so…

The benefits of mentoring are well documented (Buddeberg-Fischer, 2006; Kasworm, 2010). Every industry has mentors and protégés who seek mentors who achieved their aspirations. But what training do our mentors have in effective mentorship? Recognizing that it is never too early to learn, yet often overlooked, the Weill…

The Preservice Teacher Institute (PTI) is a budding learning community designed to provide mentoring and support for senior elementary education undergraduate candidates. This program is an effective paradigm for mentoring and inducting new teachers into the profession. PTI is a two-semester program. The first semester is restricted to candidates…

Discusses combining a theoretical teaching approach about group counseling with the experiential dimension of the students' actual experience in a group where theoretical learning takes place. Suggests that through this method the student not only learns about groups, but can actually live through the group process. (Author/JAC)

In order to enhance the therapeutic counseling potential of campus pastors, a brief orientation and training program in counseling was designed utilizing a client-centered orientation. The focus of training was on selected recorded interviews between clients and therapists and the reaction of the campus pastors to the interviews. (Author)

Preservice field experience and campus activities are integrated to combine theory and practice in human interaction, informal classrooms, teaching-learning skills, the integrated day, and subject matter development. The student co-author describes the way that she experienced each component. (Author)

Describes workshop designed to aid kindergarten and first grade teachers in assessing a child's educational disability, deciding what to do about it and when to use referral. Concentrated on skills for evaluating the child's motor ability, intellegence level and emotional development. Also taught behavior modification techniques and remediation…

This article describes training roles and experiences of a new special education paraprofessional. Offering two-year, A.A.-level training, the Child Health Care Worker Training Program gives such personnel clinical, academic, and community training which articulates with unmet special education needs for developmentally disabled children and their…

Describes Job Corps, an expensive residential program for employability training and renewal services, offered to disadvantaged American youth aged 16-22. Six principles (i.e., voluntary participation, open entry/open exit, individualization, accountability, comprehensiveness, and contractor competition) are the reasons for an employability record…

Discusses the use of undergraduate students as facilitators for abuse prone parent groups. Traditional preparation for group experience was inadequate and a three-phase training program was implemented to prepare students for the special demands faced when leading an abuse prone parent group. (JAC)

By using psychodrama techniques in inservice programming, improvement in communication among members of the school community occurs. With modification the psychodrama approach can be used with inservice teachers and administrators to improve self-realization and communication. A program using psychodrama techniques is described in the article.…

Describes TAPE (Theory and Practicum Elementary), an innovative field-based teacher training option at Texas Tech University. Students electing to take the TAPE program can complete all of their professional development courses in a field-based setting. The TAPE program emphasizes the processes of learning. Includes recommendations for planning…

Cooperative school/university programs stressing inservice education are proposed as a way of improving education at all levels. An inservice program combining portions of inservice and preservice education is being field tested. The approach offers efficiency, economy, potential for improved pupil performance, and increased probability of…

The study was designed to provide an informal, structured, off-campus retreat to enable college students to gain knowledge about one another and themselves as a means of developing improved cooperation with and concern for each other in their college methods classes. Data indicated positive group feelings after the retreat. (Author)