This article deals with the question of staff differentiation. The central issue relates to the concept of a teaching hierarchy. Differentiation is a natural process of organization building. It is nothing more than thedivision of labor. (Author/MS)

Teacher aides have become an accepted part of a large number of school districts throughout the United States and can be seen in inner-city, suburban, and rural school districts, as well as in private and parochial schools. Despite the concern and apparent need for teacher aides, many problems have arisen concerning the definition of their duties.…

A new approach to classification and assignment, called differentiated staffing, has found favor among some educators as a way of alleviating teacher shortage and as an answer to the problem of teacher salaries. (GR)

This booklet relates the results of a study conducted for the year 1970-71 of Colorado institutions of higher learning. It gives a profile of newly hired faculty members and indicates the number of applicants for each position. Also presented are the working conditions, fringe benefits and faculty salaries for each college. Appendices include the…

Provides an instrument for assessing faculty and staff desire and capacity to change to an open classroom. (Author/JF)

There is a great difference among teachers with respect to their skills, what they like to do, what they do best, what they are trained to do, the levels at which they like to work, and their degree of commitment to the profession. They differ further in their interest in dealing with administrative problems, filling leadership roles, developing…

This report determined the results of the implementation of flexible instructional organization (F10) or staff differentiation at Venice Junior High School, Sarasota, Florida. The introductory portion concerns the report purpose, procedures and scope as well as background material. Results of interviews, conferences, surveys, observations, and…

This report presents ratios, formulas, and recommendations regarding the staffing of school systems with special concern given to the number of administrators and supervisors needed to most effectively administer the schools. Educational Research Service (ERS) obtained information from the following sources: a) ERS information files, b) National…

This paper idsucsses the J. Lloyd Trump (NAASP) model of differentiated staffing and compares it with that of Dwight Allen (Stanford University.) The general rewards and pitfalls of differentiated staffing are discussed, and the author concludes that although these two models have served as the basis for all significant differentiated staffing…

This document is a learning packet for differentiated staffing. Chapters include behavioral objectives of differentiated staffing, a learning packet, pre-assessment instruments, differentiated staffing assumptions, factors to be considered in a differentiated staffing program, a differentiated staffing definition, differentiated staffing models,…

Describes a program of teaching medical students in a university health maintenance organization (HMO). Lists program goals and discusses the experience of students and patients in relationship to those in more traditional university teaching clinics. (JT)

Fourth of six articles from a special feature on differentiated staffing.