This article examines three problem areas related to classroom organization--team teaching, cross-age grouping, and classrooms labeled according to some prevailing educational ideology. The author notes that staff organization demands careful attention in order to allow teachers opportunity for growth and flexibility. (Author/DS)

The practicum described in this report was intended to develop an effective computer-based procedure for allocating teaching personnel among the 94 elementary schools in the Denver Public School System. The project design was developed by the authors over a 10-month period in cooperation with central office administrators and 12 elementary…

An Individualized Instructional Systems Program is a proqram that enables students to: (1) have available in writing the behavioral objectives they try to attain; (2) progress at their own individual rate while completing the required tasks, activities, and objectives of the course; (3) spend as much time as needed to complete the objectives of…

The overall purpose of the study was to examine differentiated staffing practices and to explore their potential for Alberta schools. The study had four major phases. The first was to review the literature on differentiated staffing to determine rationales for it, alternative definitions and conceptualizations, recommended practices, expected…