This interview explores William Glasser's ideas about educational relevancy and students' needs for belonging, power (feeling important), freedom, and fun. Glasser advocates learning teams and control theory to help students determine their needs and explore alternative choices for satisfying them. Schools cannot succeed at teaching the basics…

Identifies stages in the process of educational software development: pre-specification stage in which educators identify the software's educational considerations; specification stage in which educators and programers work together to develop the program; documentation stage; field testing stage; and support stage. (MBR)

Describes a method for videodisc courseware development utilized by the University of Notre Dame Interactive Videodisc Laboratory staff, which includes production of a storyboard as the final component of the design phase. The three steps of group storyboarding, formative evaluation, and generation of production documents are discussed in detail.…

rationale for team teaching is developed and its operation is described. Tutor responses are listed, and frameworks for implementing team teaching are offered. The author suggests that team teaching be considered an appropriate arrangement in various adult education settings. (CH)

The author discusses the role, make-up, establishment, and workings of the placement department advisory board within a proprietary school. (CH)

Presents general problems with current conceptualizations of interprofessional education and practice. Identifies specific obstacles in implementing integration between disparate professional groups. Professional isolationist attitudes, nonsupportive organizations, lack of consumer awareness and demand, and the ineffective role of higher education…

This article presents the results of a research study undertaken to examine the characteristics of Singapore's Work Improvement Teams in terms of their cohesiveness, productivity, loyalty, and drive and pressure to conform. The impact of leadership on these characteristics is also examined. (CT)

Questionnaire data from 276 directors of special education and a review of state plans revealed variations in personnel on evaluation teams, variability in the number of evaluation team members among states, and an apparent reluctance on the part of states to require participation of parents or particular professionals on the multidisciplinary…

A preservice teaming model using recreation as a curriculum vehicle for developing interdisciplinary skills in special needs students is described. Program strengths, including parent involvement and opportunities for student feedback, are noted along with replication considerations. (CL)

Questionnaire responses of 205 professionals on interdisciplinary teams serving disabled students indicated perceptions of few major problems in team functioning. Overall, Ss viewed logistical/procedural barriers of more concern than group interactional or discipline-related categories. (CL)

A management development project at a daily newspaper in Southern California used the formative evaluation process as a strategy for organizational improvement. The process involved building teams of circulation managers, based on the assumption that the best managers have positive self-concepts and that managers' self-concepts can be enhanced by…

Civic education has been assigned a low priority. Team effort and team competition should be as prominent in cerebral development as in athletics in order to improve citizen skills and citizen orientation. Reward structures are needed where collective problem solving is more highly prized than individual achievement. (RDN)

Surveyed male and female professionals in higher education (N=96) and business (N=72) in two studies of the benefits of being a mentor, regardless of whether the respondent had a mentor. Describes benefits such as creating a support system. Lack of a mentor need not stop career advancement. (JAC)

The paper describes a scale to measure individual participation in interdisciplinary team meetings based on data from an observational study of team meetings at a residential institution for severely and profoundly mentally retarded persons. (Author/CL)

Describes several classroom cooperative learning activities that allow students to work in teams to achieve a common goal. (AEA)