Presented are techniques for establishing and criteria for evaluating an in-service education program for teachers of gifted children. (SB)

Asserting that presidential evaluation is the support and the apex of an overall program of accountability in administration, a former president of the University of Scranton suggests principles and procedures including evaluation based on a mutually accepted job description or priority list, inclusion of self-evaluation, and emphasis on…

Outlines the procedures used by one elementary school counselor to meet the needs of a teacher with a disruptive class. Includes comments by another elementary school counselor at the end. (Author)

A three-dimensional Consultation Intervention Model is used to illustrate the potential for broad-based counselor impact within a university campus community. Based upon community mental health principles, consultation is described as a complex but efficient function whereby counselors may maximize the scope of their interventions. (Author)

The Furniture and Industry Training Board set out in 1965 to find a means of successfully implementing management training in small firms. The author describes research efforts undertaken by the Board which led to the development of the training program now in use--management development based on company appraisal. (AJ)

The employment of a superintendent means more than hiring the services of a professionally qualified person. It also means acquiring that person's philosophy, set of values, system of practices, and approach to public education. (Published by California School Boards Association, 800 9th Street, Suite 201, Sacramento, California 95814) (Author)

This paper is a book review of William M. Phillips, Jr.'s "The School Sociologist: A Need and an Emergent Profession" (Washington, DC: University Press of America, Inc., 1981; 216p. ISBN-0-8191-1946-6. $12.95). Dr. Phillips defines a new professional field and expounds upon the role of the professionals within it. He seeks to combine factual…

In this digest, readers are introduced to the scope of instructional program evaluation and evaluators' changing roles in school districts. A program evaluation measures outcomes based on student-attainment goals, implementation levels, and external factors such as budgetary restraints and community support. Instructional program evaluation may be…

The purpose of the 3-year project was to strengthen the role of experiential education as an accepted and effectively used way of teaching in a majority of postsecondary institutions and to make it available to a majority of future learners as part of the regular curriculum. Among specific objectives were assisting 160 colleges and universities to…

Training behavioral consultants in the school psychology field has emerged as a high priority, with most efforts centering on training consultants to assist teachers in solving children's academic and behavioral problems in the regular classroom. With the growing success of consultation procedures in applied settings, a corresponding need has…

Many state certification recommendations in reading education do not clearly define "certification." This produces a number of questions, among them the following: (1) Do reading teachers who are likely to teach reading at either the secondary or elementary level need a developmental course at both levels? (2) Should there be discrete courses in…

Many surveys of school psychologists have documented their desire to devote more time to consultation--an indirect service delivery system in which the school psychologist interacts with a consultee (teacher, parent, other professional) for purposes of solving a client problem. To expand the work of Martin and Curtis (1981) on school…

The paper is a product of the 3-year project, "Functional Mainstreaming for Success," designed to develop a model for instructional mainstreaming of handicapped children (3-6 years old) in community settings. The paper provides a seven point definition of successful mainstreaming and reviews the literature on the role of special…

The Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools system, a large suburban school district, is in the process of developing a comprehensive teacher induction program for its new teachers. Training for new teachers takes place in the summer and after school, with teachers receiving a stipend for each 6-hour module completed. Feedback from teachers…