Advises business communication teachers to help their students plan careers by integrating "career awareness exercises" and "career planning reports" with regular classroom instruction. (RL)

In spite of recent reforms, minorities remain marginalized, especially if they are poor. Correlations can be measured between schooling, class, and minority goals to show that equal opportunity in schooling is not sufficient to permit social mobility for all. Society must be reformed economically, racially, and structurally to eradicate…

Suggests the following three steps for effective management of playground aides: (1) developing better screening procedures for hiring noncertified staff; (2) devising a systematic inservice training program on supervising student behavior outside of the classroom; and (3) establishing a system of school discipline that involves visible support…

Four map skill lessons for use with intermediate grade students are presented. They deal with map evaluation, orientation, making a photomap, and making a community resource map. (RM)

Highlights events in the Girl Scout movement's 75-year history, noting parallels between Girl Scout camping and the growth and success of organized camping in the United States. Includes discussion of camping standards development, Lou Henry Hoover's support, adaptations during World War II, special programs and projects, and new facilities. (JHZ)

Protocol analysis and a literature review were used to determine the ways novice and expert writers, from elementary to postsecondary levels, deal with the cognitive processes that constitute writing. They found that writing is goal-directed, writing goals are hierarchically organized, and writers accomplish their goals through planning, sentence…

Designed an intervention to facilitate the first meeting between student and adviser. During orientation, students were asked to focus on career goals in preparing for the adviser interview, recognizing stages through which students typically pass as they progress through college. Skits were used to demonstrate adviser expectations. Advisers…

Examines the development of feminine and masculine patterns of sexual identity in boyhood and the relation between these patterns and later sexual orientation. (Author/RWB)

The effects of (1) opportunity to interact with classmates; (2) positive goal interdependence; (3) positive goal and reward interdependence; and (4) positive goal and reward interdependence with an added contingency for the use of collaborative skills were investigated. Results indicate that positive goal and reward interdependence are needed to…

Discusses four potential problem areas in the employment of temporary librarians in a variety of positions in academic libraries--orientation, supervision, acceptance and integration, and utilization--and notes the influence of time limitations on the work environment. Solutions are suggested, and further research is proposed. Fourteen sources are…

The ingredients for making trustees effective fund raisers are agreement on the objectives of fund raising, understanding the institution, orientation for new trustees, and participation by trustees themselves. (Author)

Comparison of videotapes of inexperienced and established junior high school teachers on their first, second, tenth, and twenty-eighth days of school provided insight into student needs and the teacher behaviors that set the stage for instructional success. Teacher supervisors can use such videotapes to help orient new teachers. (PGD)

Pace University's efforts to attract and retain adult students include contacting nonmatriculated students to encourage commitment and resolve problems and contacting part-time students the first semester they stop attending. The results of the university taking the initiative have been increased retention and greater information about student…

Describes a preservice teacher education program of Gallaudet College where student teachers participate in the Instrumental Enrichment Program to develop their cognitive skills. Includes an illustrated model. (MD)

Argues that systematic positive feedback techniques such as those currently used in industry can and should be adapted as a management technique in schools--between administrators and teachers and between teachers and students as well. (TE)