Sprague High School's program to train career education resource teachers was designed to recruit and prepare approximately 15 individuals from business, industry, and the professions who would provide exploratory career experiences and information to students. A four-page outline covers the program's objectives, procedures, a third party…

A program designed to train learning specialists called consulting teachers who, in turn, train classroom teachers to educate handicapped children in the regular classroom setting is described. Consulting teacher trainees are selected on the basis of teaching experience, leadership capability, academic promise, and commitment to special education.…

A cooperative program between university faculty and school district personnel used the course Counseling Parents of Exceptional Children as the vehicle to place students with resource teachers in the Centex Texas Independent School District. (SBH)

The paper discusses the need for new programing strategies for seriously emotionally disturbed children, describes the ecological or systems orientation approach, cites instances in Scandinavian ecological approaches, and considers applications to the United States. The ecological approach is described in terms of nine principles, including that…

The report describes and evaluates George Washington University's Complementary Teacher Training Program during the 1971-74 period. It is explained that the demonstration program was designed to prepare undergraduate special education resource teachers to work directly with mainstreamed handicapped (including learning disabled and emotionally…