Discusses the role of the resource person and ways to coordinate school and community resource programs. (GB)

One of the largest school districts in the United States hired at least one consulting teacher for each elementary school with a high proportion of low income, minority students. These consulting teachers assisted in the implementation of two academic programs--the All Schools Achieve Program (ASAP) and Systematic Strategy Instruction (SSI).…

Four articles bear on the dissemination of new approaches to content and instruction for the High School Geography Project, elaborating a resource personnel workshop, a teacher-oriented implementation strategy, and learning experience via curriculum development. (Author/KM)

The Psychological Center provided a family oriented mental health consultation service to 17 delegate agencies who had contracts with Head Start programs in 1966-67. This paper presents an overview of the services which an interdisciplinary staff of 52 professionals provided to 6,780 families and 1,500 agency staff members. Gerald Caplan's (1964)…

Major considerations in planning and implementing curriculum changes in science education are presented in this handbook. Steps for building a general framework for curriculum planning are related to key questions which should be considered in applying this framework to an approach selected. Presented are characteristics of the major approaches to…

Described is a project designed to examine the role of the public school resource specialist in serving exceptional children in California. The first section examines the establishment of the resource specialist role by the California Master Plan for Special Education, provides a historical review of school responses to exceptional children, and…

Suggests that reading specialists should give advice to other teachers, as well as to students. (MKM)

Schools can make the best use of their microcomputer resources if they (1) use the computers constantly, (2) encourage teachers to use the computers as tools, (3) use a variety of appropriate software for each grade level and subject, and (4) ensure that teachers have access to equipment experts. (PGD)

Describes some of the different roles an instructional consultant may fill and their implications for both clients and consultants. The focus is on the differences between consultants as generalists and as specialists, and between consultants as advisors to others and as direct providers of products or services. (Author)

Observations and interviews were used to examine practices of learning support assistants working with students with severe or profound/multiple learning disabilities in 24 inclusive British schools. The most effective assistants supported groups rather than individuals, offered just the right amount of support, had time for planning and reporting…

How paraprofessionals relate to innovation within the high school was the point of investigation in a study completed in 1973. Of the 324 New York State secondary principals contacted, 243 (75 percent) supplied information and opinion in response to questionnaires. High school principals believe that innovation is positively related to the…

This collection of four addresses considers some important issues for educational supervisors in a society undergoing rapid social changes. Jacqueline Grennan Wexler suggests that open communication in a climate of mutual independence and responsibility among educational administrators, students, teachers, and taxpayers is a possible solution to…