This paper examines the development of courses, materials, and techniques to help graduate students a) acquire experience with and knowledge of the development of children from conception to 8 years of age and b) develop skills to implement these experiences, especially in dealing with parents, teachers, and all involved in the early childhood…

A questionnaire was administered to the faculty and administrators of Valencia Community College to obtain answers to the following questions: (1) Will the present faculty organization meet the needs of a multicampus college? (2) Will the present system of administrative committees, councils, and task forces meet the needs of a multicampus…

To determine whether educational advisement by instructors at Santa Ana College and by credentialed counselors at Cypress College resulted in differences in the students' commitment to their originally selected program major, two groups of students who had completed a calendar year at the two California colleges were studied. A three-part…

This paper is a discussion of the emerging model of student development programming for the 1970's. After an historical sketch of Student Personnel Service, the affective domain of student development is detailed with regard to theory, instruction, counseling, and administration. (Author/DB)

The special education training program at the University of Northern Iowa provides a systematically integrated program designed to develop professional personnel with the requisite competencies to (a) diagnose and teach; (b) organize and supervise programs; (c) evaluate instructional programs; and d) train professional educators to implement…

The Clinical Approach to Teacher Education at Boise State Colleges places its students into two concurrent classes which run for two consecutive semesters and which emphasize the integration of theory and practice. Its ultimate goal is the development of a culminating year-long internship for the study of child behavior, curriculum, and…

The Children's House at Mankato State College serves as a teacher training facility with five major objectives: a) to develop an interdisciplinary program for pre- and in-service education for professional personnel; b) to provide teacher trainees with the opportunity to structure the environment for optimal child learning; c) to provide trainees…

Three practicum components are presented for consideration: A developmental reading practicum, a curriculum innovation practicum, and a reverse-student- teaching-assignment-level practicum. (DS)

A technique developed at SUNY at Stony Brook measures changes in second-year medical students' ability to recognize psychopathology following an educational program in psychobiology. It compares ratings of videotaped interviews by the students to the ratings of the interviews made by the faculty preceptors participating in the teaching program.…

A clinical pharmacy training program for undergraduate students developed at the University of Iowa provides conjoint training of pharmacy and dental students in the clinic areas and pharmacy at the College of Dentistry. (LBH)

At the George Washington University School of Medicine a 52-hour course in emergency care was adapted for first-year medical students from an 81-hour program for training emergency medical technicians. (Author/LBH)

This research explores training of development in discrimination and communication skills in counselor trainees. It is concluded that trainees may improve their communication skills; improvement of discrimination skills was not demonstrated. (MFD)

Preservice field experience and campus activities are integrated to combine theory and practice in human interaction, informal classrooms, teaching-learning skills, the integrated day, and subject matter development. The student co-author describes the way that she experienced each component. (Author)

Seventy-one psychiatric resident-supervisory dyads were studied in terms of Schutz's interpersonal theory of compatibility, and personality changes were measured with Schutz's Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation Scale. Predictions relating compatibility to satisfaction with the dyad and competence ratings were not confirmed.…

The School of Pharmacy, University of the Pacific, and the Pharmacy Service, Letterman Army Medical Center, initiated a 15-week clinical nuclear pharmacy clerkship in 1975. It includes basic nuclear medical science, technical competency, professional competency, and special interest emphasis. (LBH)