Professional development research suggests that teachers learn best from and with each other in ongoing, job-embedded activities. "A Facilitator's Guide to Professional Learning Teams" provides a way of engaging school faculties in sustained, onsite professional development that builds capacity and collegiality, improves teaching quality, and…

How does individual learning impact team learning? Through an exploratory case study, data was collected from questionnaires, documentation review, observations, and interviews. Three themes emerged describing how an autonomous learner affected team learning. The results indicated that the autonomous learner influenced team learning through…

This book provides a range of models for undergraduate student-assisted teaching partnerships to help teachers and administrators make learning more student-centered, effective, and productive. The 31 models describes a range of approaches and applications in a variety of settings and disciplines. The chapters are: (1) "Establishing a Common…

This planning guide contains tools for youth development programs, schools, and youth aged 11-21 years from all backgrounds who are working on team projects in their communities. The tools are designed to help young people structure and implement successful projects and provide a means for them to recognize and assess what they have learned…

This publication examines research on an instructional practice called teacher teaming as conducted in K-12 schools. Teacher teaming involves grouping two or more teachers together with responsibility for a group of students for instructional purposes. The report describes the major literature about the relationship that exists between teacher…

Psychology and computer science were clustered into a course in "Internet Psychology" with the goal of enabling students to use electronic networks responsibly and creatively and to understand the principles of psychology as they operate in the electronic context. Fourteen students from a variety of majors registered for the class.…

Describes an approach to counselor training that attempts to prepare counselors to be more versatile and be able to perform services that go beyond the traditional one-to-one relationship with students. (Author)

The UTK (University of Tennessee at Knoxville)-Tyson Project is a project between the University of Tennessee and Tyson Junior High School in Knoxville which hopes to open the lines of communication between those who teach the public schools and those who prepare teachers. (NQ)

The study concludes that a significant interaction between leadership style and leader member relations was present but did not differentailly affect groups with good leader member relations. In groups with poor leader member relations the interaction effect was highly significant, but in the direction opposite of that predicted. (Author)

Suggested is a team approach which would pair a minority group counselor with a white counselor to provide support to the client not only in regard to his cultural aspects but also in regard to the wider community with which he may not be familiar and in which neither he nor the minority group counselor may feel at ease. (CJ)

A view room was used in treatment of 2 dysfunctional children. Social workers found it useful for peer consultation, which benefited children in therapy. (NH)

Purpose: 1) to trace the origins of large interdisciplinary team scientific research; 2) to examine its multipurpose institutions or laboratories; 3) to estimate the capacity of this scientific style to launch breakthroughs for the progress os science; and, 4) to speculate on the future of team research. (Author/SE)

Examines some constraints unique to human service delivery in rural areas. Proposes a conceptual framework for strategies and examines implications of the framework for education of human services professionals. (Author/AH)

Roles are delineated for vocational teachers, special education teachers, and bilingual teachers in an interdisciplinary approach to vocational education of limited or non-English-speaking secondary handicapped students. (CL)