Maintains that teachers of young children--at the kindergarten level, for example--need to exhibit understanding rather than patience in working with these children. Asserts that patience is rarely necessary when one is understanding. (BB)

Examined extent and distribution of concern about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among 447 college students and impact of concern on their sexual behavior. Nearly 50 percent of students claimed AIDS concern affected behavior. Claimed effects were not associated with independent measures of behavior in question. (Author/NB)

Although prepackaged curriculum and training program materials can save precious time, they can also negatively affect efforts to improve school and classroom discipline. Obedience models often yield quick results at the expense of developing responsible students who understand the important principles underlying school rules. (MLH)

A teacher describes how she managed to turn one student's disruptive behavior into an opportunity for all students to learn about conflict resolution. (JL)

Punishment given in a caring, supportive environment can assist children to learn some tasks more quickly, when used in conjunction with programmed positive reinforcement. The manner in which a punishment is implemented impacts its effectiveness. Two experiments are presented in which teachers used creative punishment to produce classroom behavior…

Examined characteristics of problem drinking exhibited by college students (N=1,097), focusing on circumstances of the drinking act and personal and social characteristics of problem behavior. Findings suggest that drinking problems among college students are of sufficient degrees to warrant prevention and intervention strategies generally called…

Presents two legal cases involving high school students ("Birdsey v. Grand Blanc Community Schools" and "State v. Wolfer") that illustrate requirements for use of "Miranda Warnings." These warnings are not usually required to be provided in civil suits, or proceedings involved in administration of school discipline.…

Contingency packages can be incorporated into classroom management techniques for reluctant learners (who may have already experienced failure in education) to encourage enthusiasm and motivation for learning. Suggestions are provided for implementing programs using a robot or football concepts. (CB)

The high schools in Framingham, Massachusetts, use the Framingham Interagency Rehabilitation Model as an alternative to taking students accused of first-time offenses against major school discipline regulations to court. The process involves a quasijudicial hearing, court followup of student progress, and cooperation among several school and…

Discusses results of a survey of nursing programs asking whether the programs had a policy on termination of students who are unsafe in clinical practice or whether the issue of needing a policy had been addressed by the institution. (CT)

Draws upon recent fieldwork in a Catholic junior high school to focus on the ritualized behavior of the "class clown," who resists instruction. Calls upon resistance theorists to strive for more conceptual precision in their articulation of the symbolic dimension of transgressive student behavior by utilizing a more multidisciplinary…

This article reports the findings of a microethnographic study of an English language and literacy class for Hmong adults. The discussion centers on Hmong interaction with other classroom participants and with classroom materials, relating observed behavior to theories of perception and cognitive style. Implications for teacher practice and…

Suggests that many students are not aware of proper etiquette and proposes that business communication instructors offer a short bibliography and a few tips that can help students acquire more polish. (DF)

Schools should not teach values directly, but education can never be value-free. Schools can best promote moral responsibility by treating all students fairly, providing good role models, using discipline to help students, balancing competition with cooperation, and providing opportunities to students for responsible and altruistic behavior. (TE)

Differences between fad bulimia and clinical bulimia are presented using Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) criteria, personality assessment measures, and responses to counseling. (Author)