A model of inservice training for teachers of mainstreamed students focuses on the development of a multidisciplinary staff support team which provides consultation to the staff members of a school. The establishment of building-based teams, types of assistance, administrative support, and accessibility of service are detailed. (JN)

Describes a model of delivery of services that enables school psychologists to meet testing demands while initiating a broad range of consultative services. The model includes having available: (1) funds for contract testing, (2) conferences with teachers prior to formal referral of children, and (3) qualified contract evaluators. (Author/RC)

Discusses potential problems in the application of mental health consultation to other departments within an umbrella institution such as a university. Highlights possible hazardous consequences to the consultee, to the consultant, and to the organizational systems. Presents some remedies and precautionary measures. (Author/RC)

Presented at the fifth Annual Meeting of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, March 7-10, 1979, Washington, D.C., this paper describes and discusses an educational approach in which several elderly persons participated as consultants in a course on aging. (RC)

Expertise in the labor relations field is seen as necessary for any college or university engaged in collective bargaining. Three choices are considered: hiring the expert, retaining an outside consultant, or training the in-house specialist. Management, it is suggested, must maintain the power balance by meeting expertise with expertise.…

This article considers some of the major trends and factors influencing the role of Local Education Authority (LEA) advisers. Included are: studies of advisers' role perceptions, discussion of the dichotomy between their two major roles (inspector and teacher adviser), and issues in the size and structure of advisory teams. (SJL)

A survey of reading teachers and Title I program directors in Kansas indicates that 50 percent of the former and 90 percent of the latter do not judge themselves adequately prepared to teach handicapped children under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. (CJ)

Reported is a survey of the initial training of science teachers through the PGCE route. Areas of concern were the pattern of training offered, in terms of subjects being studied; important teaching skills; and general issues to be covered in the initial training. (SK)

Being a professor today is not as attractive as it used to be because of the mediocre pay, the competition, and pressures. Attractions still associated with the professoriate are freedom of expression coupled with a degree of financial security. (JMF)

Topics discussed by the NACS Store Planning/Renovation Committees in this updated version of the college store renovation manual include: short- and long-range planning, financial considerations, professional planning assistance, the store's image and business character, location considerations, building requirements, space requirements, fixtures,…

Discusses the prospects, for graduate students, of careers as communication consultants. Argues that consulting is an appropriate nonacademic career option for some graduates, but that it requires rigorous, specialized preparation. (JMF)

The majority of counselors in this study identified individual and small group counseling as the activity that absorbs most of their time, followed by consulting and parent help. The counselors' perceptions of their actual and ideal roles show convergence in actual and ideal roles regarding counseling, consulting, and parent help. (Author)

Through balanced interaction between preschool staff and mental health consultants, staff are helped to understand specific children and develop ways of dealing with them which derive from staff's own observations and perceptions. (HS)

College applicants' increasing use of consultant services to help ensure admission to elite colleges is criticized by college admissions officers, concerned that the services assist only the wealthy, and by high school counselors who feel consultants may be dispensing bad advice or may not be committed to student needs. Some feel college…

In cases of cheating, plagiarism, or violations of the law in dental education, a very high level of due process is required. University counsel can help administrators determine whether an accused student is professionally suited to dentistry by characterizing as many corrective actions as possible as academic under the rubric of "suitability to…