The joint training of professionals and non-professionals to work together as a team has received heavy emphasis in two projects: (1) Project ENABLE (Education for Neighborhood Action for Better Living Environment), and (2) the Child Study Association, Project Head Start Training Program for Parent Participation. The objectives in working with…

This examination of the operation of teams in the Pilot Communities Program is chiefly historical in character. Based on intensive examination of proposals, evaluation studies, reports, memoranda, and interviews with personnel involved in the program, it was written by two university professors who had not been involved in the actual program. The…

The U.S. Army Dental Corps has implemented a formal program based on the concept that dental care can be more efficiently and effectively provided with treatment teams composed of one dental officer, two dental therapy assistants (DTAs), one basic assistant, and the shared support of other auxiliary personnel. Such a team will use three dental…

Reported relationships between individual characteristics and group performance have been weak, but Davis (1969) and Johnson (1970) found that a subject's stated preference for working alone or in a group was associated with differences in group performance. In the present study, preference for group or solo participation was examined in relation…

A handbook to guide coordinators of parent activities in their role in a quality Head Start program is presented. Discussion includes the following topics: motivation, informal and formal participation, teamwork, and total involvement. A bibliography is attached. (CK)

The Professional Partnership Program, which began at the Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey, was intended to foster professional growth and more effective teaching. Describes the programs that teachers there participated in and what they learned from those programs. (Author/RK)

An overview of the articles appearing in this issue of "The Journal of School Health" is presented. (JD)

Describes a simulation game, IDIOTS (Instructional Development in Ordinary Teaching Situations), which is designed to acquaint potential instructional developers, faculty and/or students, with the various aspects of instructional development. (RAO)

Dr. Richey, Superintendent of the Pascagoula Municipal Separate School District, has not only been a catalyst for change in the local district, but has also continued to forcefully influence public education on state and national levels. He has inspired his total staff to seek maximum personal effort and to secure "quality education for…

Provides an overview of a team approach to pupil personnel services that allows the counselor to function as a generalist in guidance and counseling. (Author/IRT)

Describes an in-depth unit in investigative reporting taught to high school students in a first-year journalism course. Discusses reports written by teams of students and outlines positive results of the unit. (GW)

The emotions and physical interaction in many sports have a great deal in common with the experiences in a love relationship. (JD)

Investigates the relationship between the length of a football coach's tenure and his effectiveness. (Author/RK)

The authors introduce the concept of group facilitation skills for managers. They describe a framework that will help managers recognize group process problems, diagnose underlying causes of group problems, and consider how to take the group past its problems. (Author/CH)

The study observed the procedures used by an interdisciplinary incest treatment team over a 15-month period. Decision making was characterized by multiple observations of family members by multiple observers in multiple settings over time, analogous to procedures used in social research to establish reliability and validity. (Author/DB)