A project involving a microconsultation process and a Learning Behavior Lab is described as one model where a district and a college training program have cooperated both to improve training and to provide direct services to students and teachers. (Author)

The consultation treatment does have a significant effect either on the achievement oriented behavior of pupils or on teachers' perceptions of their behavior. Consultation concerning one pupil may affect the teacher's perceptions of other pupils as well, due to subsequent changes the classroom environment that serve to improve the achievement…

A laboratory learning intervention in a new high school had a durable effect upon both faculty and students; (a) teachers exhibited greater interpersonal openness and acceptance of conflict, and (b) students saw the faculty as more receptive and themselves as more responsible and coactive, both in and out of the classroom. (Author)

The example outlined in this paper illustrates how a school system established a counseling service within its own special education division. The key administrative positions were taken up by qualified and experienced teachers while other professional personnel, such as psychologists, were employed as resource consultants. (Author)

It is the contention of this model that a counseling approach that focuses almost exclusively on the significant adults" or primary focus people" in a child's life will in terms of economy and efficiency address itself more successfully to the primary goal of education. (Author)

Results indicated that the most effective means of intervention was the play therapy in combination with in service consultation for teachers. Play therapy alone was also found to be an effective approach to improve the mental health of the subjects although the relative gains of individual subjects showed more variability than when inserve…

Paper prepared for presentation at the Second International Congress of Social Psychiatry, London, England, August 4-9, 1969.

In June, 1968, the U.S. Office of Education (USOE) and the American Association of Junior Colleges (AAJC) initiated the Program With Developing Institutions (PWDI) for 85 small schools. The AAJC provided consulting services and publications, held workshops, and funded recommended programs with

An individualized approach to instructional improvement that pairs a teaching consultant with a faculty member (Teaching Improvement Consultation Program) is described. The model uses the faculty member's experiences and thoughts about the the experiences as the starting point for examining and analyzing teaching issues and practices. (MLW)

Describes how a graduate class in communication consulting might be structured. Includes a list of readings and class assignments. (PD)

Describes the operation of the Vice Principal's Advisory Council (VPAC) at Montgomery High School, Skillman, New Jersey, which is used to provide a team approach to intervention in student problems. (JW)

Use of precision teaching principles with learning problem students involves five steps: specifying performance, recording daily behavior, charting daily behavior, recording the teaching approach, and analyzing data. The approach has been successfully implemented through consultation of school psychologists in Walsall, England. (CL)