Peer coaching, teacher input, and focus on teaching improvement are important ingredients in an inservice teacher training program in a Palos Hills, Illinois, school district. Program goals and guidelines for training sessions and peer coaching teams are detailed. (CJH)

A 1986 survey of U.S. health maintenance organizations indicated a preference medical school and/or residency program curricula to have increased emphasis on cost-effective use of diagnostic and treatment services, quality assurance, the role of primary care "gate-keeper," and financing of health services. (Author/MLW)

Collaborative art focuses on camper-generated planning and execution, not on following the counselor's instructions. Contrary to the traditional approach (one-person, one-object), the objective is to teach campers how to share a common goal by cooperating and communicating with each other. (JMM)

Views school reorganization as best achieved through school-based management, featuring transformational leaders, school effectiveness teams, school strategic plans, school-site budgeting, and school performance reports. Describes a Dallas County (Texas) district's efforts to create a mission, review organizational structure, and adopt strategic…

Notes that there are more counseling personnel in the elementary schools than ever before. Examines similarities and differences among school counselors, school psychologists, and school social workers. Provides role definitions for each group, recognizes overlap, and urges that counseling personnel work together to benefit students. (NB)

The first of two articles discusses the obstacles to and advantages of cooperative systems planning and development by a team of academic librarians and computing center staff. The second examines the differences in funding approaches to libraries and computer centers, and budgetary problems involved when the two organizations share computer…

Describes a research-based part-time Master's degree program which recruited teams of practicing teachers. Research revealed that the nature of the team collaboration did not meet the program's expectations. Teachers' reflections and actions were predominately individualistic, due to constraints in the program itself and the culture of schools.…

Describes a line manager's successful attempt to design an autonomously run plant. The author discusses the assembly of a team of workers to develop the plant, product design, characteristics of the team members, the employee reward system, role of the plant manager, and the manager's evaluation of the plant's success. (CT)

Examines how sportswriters reveal, organize, and reaffirm some of the diverse cultural values that baseball, as an American institution, represents. (PD)

Describes the School Community Training Program in a Wyoming school district that equips handicapped high school students with vocational skills and prepares them for the entry-level jobs that are available in the community. (CT)

Related how partner-learning is an effective means of individualizing instruction. Describes PLUS (Partner-Learning in Understanding Science), an activity-centered, fact-based approach to science instruction. Provides suggestions for this program's organization and implementation. (ML)

The author cites reasons for having academic teachers on advisory committees: strengthens the link between academic and vocational courses and links the hands-on aspect of vocational education to academic skills. The author suggests ways to help select academic teachers for vocational advisory committees and to involve these teachers in vocational…

Describes four training guides developed by the Water and Sanitation for Health Project for use in rural water supply and sanitation projects in developing countries, explains the development process, offers insights gained from the process, and presents five considerations for designing training in third world countries. (MBR)

Describes the use of a self-study videocassette course on planning and presenting video training to teach organizational subject matter experts (SMEs) how to develop training materials on videotape. A preproduction timetable is included which lists events and when they should be scheduled prior to production day. (MBR)

Investigates alternative methods of developing computer assisted instruction (CAI) lessons and concludes that a team effort of experienced educators and highly skilled computer professionals is essential for production of "better" CAI lessons. A model illustrating such a team effort for CAI development is presented and analyzed.…