Thirteen secondary special education resource-withdrawal teachers evaluate their roles as teachers, assessors, programmers, liaisons, and consultants. Survey results indicate teachers would like more specific job specialization, a separate department for all school resource teachers, credit given for study skills courses, and resource room credit…

Discusses the problems of hiring substitutes and Ellington High School's (Connecticut) plan to deal with the problem: relieve teachers of supervisory duties, assign them to resource rooms organized around a particular academic discipline, and utilize these teachers as substitutes in their area of discipline when the need arises. (LC)

This study examined the effects of a classwide peer tutoring program on the academic performance of 20 mildly handicapped students enrolled in two separate sections of a secondary resource room program. Methodology and results are discussed. (Author/JL)

The paper describes steps taken in initiating a program for gifted students undertaken in 11 secondary schools in Cape Province, South Africa. The development of an identification model was made difficult because the fixed South African educational system inhibits creativity and productive thinking abilities. Factors used to select students for…

Based on a sample of 12 school sites in California, the report documents the effectiveness of the secondary Resource Specialist Program (RSP) which provides instruction and services for handicapped students--primarily the learning disabled--who are assigned to a regular classroom for a majority of the school day. A number of program components are…

The report contains a summary of conclusions and recommendations concerning career education programs for handicapped students in Philadelphia as well as a specific report for each of the six projects funded during the 1979-80 school year. The following projects are described: Consumer and Homemaking for Retarded Educables, Consumer and Homemaking…

This summary evaluation report is a short synopsis of the first-year activities of the Resource Vocational Program, which provided career development and vocational education--employability development--services in the least restrictive environment to a group of mild to moderate handicapped youth. A brief description outlines scope and four major…

Project CAPABLE (Classroom Action Program: Aim: Basic Learning Efficiency) is a classroom approach which integrates the basic learning skills with content. The goal of the project is to use basic learning skills to enhance the learning of content and at the same time use the content to teach basic learning skills. These monthly reports explain how…

This teacher's manual, one in a series of nine staff development guides prepared by the Philadelphia School District, clarifies roles and responsibilities of various staff members and parents in providing programs to meet the career and vocational education needs of mildly to moderately handicapped students. Designed to be relevant to the specific…