The position taken here is that much greater stress needs to be put upon improving instruction through improving the amount and nature of the staff and the time resources available to the classroom teacher. The proposed minimum supportive-services staffing for a model educational unit would include six special services leaders (coordinators); six…

If education is to keep up with social and technological change, teachers must be learning and developing at a rate similar to that of students, requiring the educational staff to render highly diverse and wide-ranging services. The basic strategy essential to such services is the development of differentiated staffing patterns which will allow…

This guide consists of suggestions designed to assist vocational educators in helping students improve their reading skills. School-related and non-school-related reasons why students have difficulty reading are examined. Discussed in a section on teaching the essential technical reading skills are textbook usage skills, vocabulary development,…