Presented at the Second Annual National Conference of the Alliance of Family Therapy and Family Research, Florida State University, April, 1981. Examines job changes in terms of crisis theory and aspects of counseling dual-career families during the job-change crisis. (RC)

Summarizes 10 cases of lawsuits against science teachers, with the courts' decisions. Cases involved hazardous laboratory experiments, faulty power equipment, and the use of nonlaboratory rooms for science experiments. Recommendations are made regarding safety guidelines for middle and secondary school science classrooms. (CS)

Provides lists of instructional strategies for elementary school science focusing on: (1) the biological sciences; (2) forces, movement, and energy, and (3) the physical sciences. (JN)

Examines the shortcomings of traditional counselor selection and training procedures, and presents suggestions for improving them vis-a-vis human rights counseling. Discusses recruitment and admission issues in counselor selection and the goals of human rights counseling. (Author/RC)

Explores the 1977 regulations of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as they pertain to postsecondary educational programs, with particular application and emphasis on counselor education programs. Discusses court litigation which is helpful in establishing guidelines for counselor education programs. (RC)

Twelve court cases involving laboratory situations are reviewed in chronological order. Report includes five statements indicating when an instructor is not liable as well as guidelines to improve laboratory safety and provide some measure of liability protection for the instructor. (JN)

Summarizes the need for and history of the World Conservation Strategy and itemizes the main objectives, criteria for deciding priorities, and intended audiences. Focuses on the educational relationships between the strategy and the Tbilisi Report on Environmental Education and their joint application to environmental issues. (DC)

Discusses the role of scientific information in four areas: research management, distinctions between science issues and policy issues, criteria development and standard setting, and risk analysis. Recommends ways to improve the process by which scientific data are evaluated and incorporated into standard-setting actions by EPA decision makers.…

Provides general guidelines for conducting educational research in the field of individualized instruction. (CS)

Offers information and guidelines delineating the roles and responsibilities of an adviser to student publications--to safeguard students' First Amendment rights and to ensure that students will have freedom of expression. (RL)

With the public demand for "back to basics" in education, the author outlines the responsibility of professional educators to take a leadership role in promoting home economics programs. She relates home economics to the basics as a life skill and offers guidelines for educators in community public relations. (MF)

Successful placement of vocational graduates depends on the actions and motivation of the graduate. Vocational educators must teach students how to (1) broaden their employment potential; (2) locate potential places of employment; (3) secure a job; and (4) keep a job and advance in it. (LRA)

This is the text of a presentation at a meeting of the Hoosier Association of Science Teachers. Recommendations are given for planning science in the elementary and secondary school to satisfy the Comprehensive Assessment and Program Planning System (CAPPS) mandate in Indiana. (SA)

A national survey of the faculty evaluation methods and criteria used in colleges of pharmacy in the United States looks at student evaluation of teaching, peer evaluation, administrative ratings, alumni ratings, and review by teaching experts. The resulting guidelines for teaching evaluation, based on teaching activities and measures, are…

The author suggests that the cooperating music teacher prepare the student teaching experience as a formal class, presenting the student teacher with a written syllabus and assignments. He discusses timing and procedures for the consecutive phases of the student teaching term: orientation, observation, practice lessons, and, finally, teaching…