The importance of appropriate communication, language and literacy learning in the early years cannot be overestimated. Children who enter school with well-developed communication and literacy skills have a considerable advantage over those who have yet to start. In England, children enter Reception classes at different points throughout the…

This set of three continuing education units is designed to be used as a professional development tool for school nurses. Each unit consists of several sections designed to stand alone. Thus, the total set can be used and taught in a straightforward sequence, or one or more units and sections can be combined into a personalized course. Each…

A means of combining the staff development approach and the accountability approach for pupil services staff was created by the Denver Public Schools in conjunction with the University of Colorado. A central city junior high school was used. The first step involved identification and formal statement of current functions of pupil services workers.…

Considers the evaluation provision of the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965. (RK)

A study of attitudes and opinions of staff personnel of Indiana University, as a sample population, regarding the possibility of their participation in the governance of a university. (Author)

A series of criteria are presented that might be applied to librarians and library programs in this time of close cost/return scrutiny. (Author/JN)

The first essential is increased opportunities for heads and senior teachers to develop an understanding of the influence of roles and relationships upon the task of the school so that, in their turn, they may assist their colleagues, with outside help if necessary, to a similar understanding. (Author)

Significant correlations were obtained between the language comprehension scores of the children and both the quality of the task directed to them and the way in which the nursery was organized. (Authors)

Purpose of this article is to describe the planned staff development program, which is developed from the school districts' perceived needs. Curriculum development is discussed incidentally as it relates to the planned staff development program. (Author/CB)

Advocates having a Teacher Educator-Evaluator Model on the staff of every school who would assist in skill and competency development, and the counseling of teachers. (Author/AF)

Discusses need for pupil personnel staff to try to provide source of stability to students during and after negotiations, in effort to keep communication lines open between teachers and students. (CJ)

Role of the Lister Hill Center is to serve the medical community as it evaluates and corrects itself. (Editor)

How KETC in St. Louis trains staff by the each one teach one principle.". (Editor)

The school psychologist can do much to help with conflict resolution and group processes. Examples are provided of a psychologist's skills applied to resolving a student-teacher conflict and a master scheduling crisis, and to improving relationships with a parent-teacher organization and teacher relations. (MLF)

Institutional staff used behavior modification and reality therapy to bring about positive behavioral changes in 20 severely retarded, emotionally disturbed adolescents as measured on two adaptive behavior scales. (Author)