Describes the Ethnic Program, a bilingual early childhood program in Adelaide, Australia, which utilizes ethnic staff as mediators in kindergartens with a significant number of children of ethnic minority origin. (CM)

The Group Integration Process, described in this article, serves as a broad and guiding set of steps (invitation, induction, orientation, training, relationship, and integration) that helps the supervisor better understand what is to be done in managing a new employee's entrance into a work group. (TA)

Team classification seeks to bring together various levels of correctional staff and inmates to discuss and resolve issues pertaining to work and cell assignment, disciplinary action, furlough requests, and merit time considerations. Team classification, when successfully implemented, is positively associated with staff attitudes toward inmates,…

In an institutional setting for retarded children, 14 staff members were observed during the administration of teaching programs. (Author)

Presents information on fire prevention, fire safety inspection and fire evacuation planning that child care directors and staff should be aware of. (MS)

Describes a staff development framework having four main components: a definition, a mapping sentence, a description of participant roles, and an evaluation perspective. Conditions are discussed for judging the worth of staff development activities, and examples of such activities are analyzed to show how the evaluation perspective is used in…

Advanced computer technologies and progressive employers are making it possible for today's secretary to do much more than type and file. The role of today's secretary is changing--for the good and the bad. (Editor)

The case study describes an intervention program using paradoxical strategies to help a teacher cope with hyperactivity in the classroom. In line with the ecological model, the focus of change is not the hyperactive child, but the teacher; the study discusses the role of the school psychologist. (Author/CL)

Professionals (N=154) on elementary multidisciplinary teams responded to surveys of their perceptions of effectiveness in performing 10 team functions. Among results were that special education teachers rated themselves highest while nurses rated themselves lowest in perceived actual and ideal effectiveness. (CL)

The president of CASE explains the 12 characteristics of a competent presidential assistant including: an other-person centered orientation toward life, identity with people individually, identity with humanity, efficient and accepting view of reality, deep interpersonal relations with others. (MLW)

The speech-language pathologist's training in language development, language comprehension, and language production makes that person an important member of the learning disabilities multidisciplinary assessment and instructional team. Specific roles of other team members in both assessment and remediation are delineated. (CL)

Surveys completed by state consultants for handicapped students revealed that Ss ranked program evaluation as their most critical and time consuming job function. Funding activities, program planning, and technical assistance to local education agencies were other critical areas. Areas of training needs included curriculum development and…

Article explained the role of the school service employee in keeping the school well maintained and the students and teachers free from concern about the school's daily maintenance. (RK)

The reference-bibliographer concept is examined from several perspectives: historical antecedents; relationship to the academic setting; and the authors' experience with a staff of subject specialists at a predominantly undergraduate college library. (JB)

The study provided a composite picture of health-related tasks performed in one school district. Nurses were able to evaluate their current practices and recommend specific improvements in nursing actions. Other school districts seeking a profile of their involvement in health-related tasks may request copies of the questionnaire or the entire…