Some schools are providing teachers with a special resource co-teacher to provide crisis intervention services for pupils when their coping capacity begins to fall apart. (RC)

The resource teacher's role in providing inservice training to regular educators is examined. The paper then describes an Action Plan Approach in which regular education teachers and the resource room teacher jointly identify problems commonly associated with mainstreaming and utilize combined efforts to resolve the problem. The advantages to the…

Comparison of behavior ratings of resource room (N=3) and regular (N=17) teachers of 29 elementary grade handicapped students found that regular teachers rated students as significantly more maladjusted than did resource room teachers. Correlations between the two sets of ratings were in the moderate range. (Author/DB)

Observation of seven resource teachers of learning disabled and educable mentally disabled students revealed that four teacher behaviors had a substantial impact on task involvement: teacher positioning, effective surveillance, provision of consequences for task involvement, and management of transition times. (CL)

Written job description information of 76 resource programs was compared with administrator perceived resource teacher job requirements in the areas of direct instruction, assessment, administration, and indirect service. Results indicated significant differences with far fewer responsibilities being formally described than informally perceived as…

After receiving varying combinations of positive and negative communications on reading achievement, classroom behavior, and learning style from a "resource teacher" on a 12-year-old boy identified as learning disabled, 129 classroom teachers completed the "Regular Educator Expectancy Scale-Revised." Results confirmed…

Describes responsibilities of travelling director in terms of teacher training, language laboratory maintenance, and audio skills and audio reference. (RL)

Resource teacher programs designed to keep handicapped learners in the educational mainstream can be seen to differ across certain dimensions, though they should share some common standard attributes. (DB)

The Multimedia Individualized Learning Experience (MILE) project of the Dubuque (Iowa) Community Schools is described. (SJ)

Briefly explained is a regular school's attempt to meet the educational needs of all children, including the educable mentally handicapped and learning disabled through use of resource teachers. (CB)