Summary of the background and major thrusts of the Vail, Colorado training conference (July, 1973) followed by reactions to the conference by 15 participants, and major implications for counseling psychology which deal with issues of professionalization, open career system, expansion of range of persons trained and served, and evaluation of…

Perhaps the best guarantee against unrealistic expectations is for all concerned to become involved in clarifying what is meant by performance,'' competency'' based teacher education, and certification. (Author/JN)

Indications point to an increasing professionalism of business teachers at all levels in the 1970's. Videotaping techniques, microteaching, newer developments in student-teaching approach (including internship) are providing opportunity for teachers to become sophisticated analysts of teaching-learning behaviors. (Author)

Proposes that the effectiveness of educational researchers in helping public education to survive will be in direct proportion to their willingness to enter into and maintain new and dynamic relationships with educators who are pursuing this fight for survival. (JM)

Attempts to apply the techniques and ideas of transformational grammar to the teaching of translation. A three-step procedure in which in the original text is reduced to based and embedded sentences, translated and reconstituted in the target language is outlined. Stylistic aspects of translation are also discussed. (FWB)

Reviews three surveys dealing with preparation of instructors, offers some explanations of the present conditions, provides some suggestions for interinstitutional and intraprofessional cooperation, and appeals to instructors to increase their professional competence. (Author/DB)

Describes skill learnability, the degree to which a managerial skill can be acquired or modified by training and development. Argues that managerial skills comprised of large social/interactive components and affected by underlying noncognitive attributes are more difficult to learn than skills articulated through a common body of knowledge.…

A survey of BS and PharmD students at the University of Kentucky examined factors affecting their program choice. BS students' major career goal was community pharmacy. Ownership, time factors, desire for experience, and cost are primary motivations. (MSE)

An intensive teacher inservice model using "field-based" clinical instructors was conducted at a Houston, Texas, school in cooperation with a Teacher Corps project. Inservice consultants explained and demonstrated new teaching skills and also worked with teachers on the classroom level. Methods that proved most successful for…

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, begun in 1969, was developed to allow selected physician clinicians to acquire skills not part of the usual physician's repertoire. The emphasis has included demographic, epidemiologic, economic, social, organizational, humanistic, anthropological, cultural, and ethical problems. (MLW)