The Talking Typewriter Program has been operative in the Cleveland Public Schools as a strategy to improve the reading skills of identified fourth grade pupils in 12 Title I schools. A responsive and autotelic environment augmented by selected materials, special teaching techniques, the expertise of trained staff, and individualized tutoring…

Discussing the professional expert involved in local projects, the paper examined the dilemma of trying to find the proper place for this resource person in the many community-based, action-oriented curriculum development projects being developed for Native peoples. The 3 broad categories of involvement are social, administrative, and technical.…

Proceedings from an institute held in Michigan, October, 1972, for curriculum resource consultants on media, methods, and materials for special educators are presented. Described in the section on planning are the institute's objectives, criteria for selection of participants, resource consultants' names and addresses, and a review of planning…

The increasing complexity of school building requirements makes it important that educators clearly understand the nature of their role in the school planning process. This review surveys 21 documents and journal articles previously announced in RIE and CIJE that discuss the educator's role as it relates to the selection and duties of the…

The primary function of the reading consultant is to work with teachers in effecting change in attitude, method, and curriculum so that all students move toward their full potential in learning. To accomplish this function, the consultant can assist teachers in several ways. First, he can help teachers conceive of reading as a thinking process…

This paper describes a mental health consultation program for day care centers serving children under six years. The goals of the program are discussed together with a description of the role of the day care consultant. The steps by which the program was implemented are described in detail. The impact of the program was measured on several…

In a two-year Title IV-C project, Content Area Reading, junior high art teachers attended workshops to improve their skills in teaching reading, then collaborated with reading resource teachers to develop art activities which reinforce reading, study, and listening skills. (SJL)

School-based and other mental health consultants are confronted with consultees who must adjust to the process of consultation by learning the parameters of the interaction. Consultees must learn how to act in this unique setting, and how to use the consultant and the process for their own ends. (Author)

Getting faculty to accept specific suggestions and put them into practice is discussed. Creating a pool of good ideas about teaching and using experienced consultants to help faculty adopt some of these ideas are suggested. Student and faculty questionnaires and an example of a teaching idea packet are included. (MLW)

Issues and developments in instructional development and evaluation are discussed including: a comprehensive system of instructional evaluation needs to be established with various components differentially weighted at the departmental level; student ratings should be only one of the components; instructional development consultants should provide…

An annotated bibliography on instructional evaluation and improvement is presented. The bibliography was compiled with an explicit bias toward the inclusion of articles that applied methodological techniques that are relatively uncommon in the instructional literature. (MLW)

Addresses the problem of improving transfer of training from the seminar setting to participants' work setting and proposes use of a post-seminar lay-consultant program offering encouragement and technical counselling to participants. The training of 16 lay people as consultants and implementation of a consultant program for seminar participants…

Describes the Productivity Group, created by the Oklahoma State Department of Vocational and Technical Education. The Group boosts small businesses by making available quality management development programs and human resource consulting services. The article discusses program management, costs, and the business community's response. (CT)

If we could survey academic chief executive search committees across higher education, a composite definition of reference checking would likely include verification of factual information such as dates of employment, job titles, and responsibilities, as well as an evaluation of successful performance and leadership skills. Although everyone would…

Increasingly, third parties are working with schools and providing a coach (a skilled educator external to a school) who helps to facilitate reform. This paper explores some of the complexities of coaching by presenting a case study of a coach in her first year of facilitating math and science reform in a pseudonymous middle school in a Boston…