This article looks at one possible approach to addressing student teacher's improved understanding of, sensitivity toward and comfort levels in working with special-needs individuals.

In laboratory training, the systematic use of feedback as a learning mechanism, along with strategies to involve the participants, constitute major departures from more classic teaching-learning techniques. (EB)

Three action research projects explored the relative merits of several techniques for helping teachers modify classroom group processes. Project 1 compared a weekly seminar (using discussion of classroom research, problem-solving techniques, analysis of diagnostic data on the teachers' own classrooms, and followup discussion during the school…

This booklet describes the learning experiences that take place in and as a result of a learning laboratory. Part one presents a brief history of the group dynamics movement, focusing especially upon the history of the National Training Laboratory of the National Education Association. Some significant characteristics of laboratory learning are…