An experienced primary school teacher designed a practicum to teach conflict resolution strategies to 20 second and third grade students in a suburban private school outside a large city in the southeastern United States.The main goal was to train students in prosocial skills so that they could resolve their conflicts with classmates peacefully,…

Teachers with at-risk students in their classrooms find themselves in the position of having to teach social skills as well as academic skills. The teacher of social skills provides the classroom and materials that facilitate the development of responsible social behavior. The Structured Learning Approach is a means to assist teachers with…

This guide contains instructional activities intended to integrate a comprehensive program of instruction in employability skills into the local K-12 curriculum in Wisconsin. The nine employability skills taught are work ethic, commitment, communication, interpersonal relationships, responsibility, job-seeking and job-getting, reasoning and…

This manual is aimed at therapists working in education settings who may have limited experience in real-life consultation situations. The first chapter discusses educational consultation as a process, including contracting, planning, and evaluation/termination. The second chapter presents strategies for collaborative decision making. Chapter 3…

This phrasebook is designed to introduce newly-arrived Iranian residents to the daily activities of American life. The phrases and supplementary vocabulary in the book's 19 units cover a wide range of situations. Topics include coping with the language barrier, useful forms of etiquette, giving information about oneself, recognizing signs,…

Recognizing that the classroom of the 1990s will be more participatory and interactive, this study compared career ladder and preservice teachers who have stronger interactive qualities with other educators on 15 affective variables of the Canfield Learning Styles Inventory. The study sought to determine which affective variables differed…

A study examined how children's understanding and use of written language and graphic/constructive art are embedded in the social world of their classrooms and how they explore the potential of communication systems (specifically, what socio-psychological strategies they use). Subjects were 21 3- and 4-year-old children of faculty and staff at a…

The study aims to answer the following questions: (1) What emotions do mothers show in their preschoolers' presence? (2) What are their children's reactions to these emotional displays? (3) How do mothers cope with these feelings? (4) How do mothers evaluate these incidents? (5) Do mothers' methods of coping predict children's adjustment? Twenty…

This leader's guide, the first of three in a series for middle school students, presents a program designed to develop interpersonal skills and self-understanding. The guide is organized into three major seminars: communication, understanding behavior, and changing behavior; these are sequential and hierarchical in nature. Specific instructions…

This review of the literature focused on the issue of classroom application of social skills training for handicapped children. First, ten theoretical models are described as representative of the approaches to social skills training in special education: behavioral, humanist, psychological, transactional, neuropsychological, ecological,…

This curriculum guide, designed for use by special education teachers of kindergarten through twelfth grade students in Lexington County, South Carolina, addresses five major areas of affective development: (1) understanding emotions; (2) self-concept development; (3) interpersonal skills; (4) skills in behavioral responsibility; and (5)…

Growth of interest in teaching culture within English as a second language (ESL) instruction shows that the basic view of language is changing. However, development of a coherent conceptual framework for teaching culture in ESL has not kept pace with the production of culture-oriented materials. Culture learning is more complex than language…

Shavelson's hierarchical facet model of self-concept was used with a sample of 158 college students, using a revision of Fleming's Self-Rating Scales (SRS). It was hypothesized that six factors would be identified in exploratory analysis corresponding to six SRS scales: self-regard, social self-esteem, physical appearance, physical abilities,…

Successful strategies and behaviors used by black women administrators to acquire and maintain their leadership positions in higher education were examined. A review was undertaken of qualitative research on black women administrators from both two- and four-year colleges that are non-church related. Three major barriers to women seeking…

The process of recruiting and selecting college faculty at a new college, the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, is discussed. The university was established in September 1973 to serve students who would complete 2 years at community/junior colleges in the Permian Basin area. The school's mission and the two towns near the college are…