Describes the Open Campus program of the University of Rochester in which during a 10-day period in April applicants who have been offered admission but have not decided to enroll are invited to the campus for one to three days. They room with volunteer student hosts, sit in on classes, etc. (JT)

The present study hypothesized that counseling with the Goal Attainment Scaling evaluation procedures would improve the conduct of counseling. The Shostrom Personal Orientation Inventory, Children's Locus of Control Scale, a Consumer Satisfaction Questionnaire, and behavioral measures were used to assess outcome. Results were in the hypothesized…

Theory and research concerning the development of spatial concepts by young children are discussed. Results of Martin and Kidder are compared with those of Piaget. (SD)

Subjects who value such job characteristics as "getting a felling of accomplishment, fair company policies, trying out their own ideas, doing work without feeling it is morally wrong, making their own decisions, (and) planning work with little supervision" tend to have higher aspirations and expectations, but lower goal deflection. (Author)

Despite recent efforts to overhaul teacher training and redesign the American teacher, reform advocates acknowledge that not enough is known about predicting education work force outcomes or their effects on classroom results. Lack of a strong conceptual background and a rigorous practice teaching experience handicaps beginning teachers and…

The Registration Involving Parents Program was instituted at Hill City High School, Kansas to: (1) keep parents informed of academic goals of students; (2) allow teachers to be more directly involved in the goal-setting of students; (3) reduce class schedule changes after the beginning of the school year; (4) force students to justify choices and…

Although stimulating genuine mentoring among teachers is not an easy process, mentoring is vital to the teaching profession. Essential elements of mentoring identified through research include socialization, individual adjustment, and nurturing. Young teachers need help in entering the profession and they also need role models and counselors…

While human resource development (HRD), an extension of education, is regarded as a helping profession, industry mandates that HRD contribute to the maximization of organizational outcomes. HRD personnel can easily become demotivated because of dual loyalties. In order not only to avoid stress and demotivation but also to maximize outcomes…

Observations were made of 15 protege teachers and 6 of their mentors to determine characteristics of naturally occurring mentoring relationships experienced by teachers, how mentoring relationships were formed in public education, and benefits accruing to the protege and to the mentor in such relationships. Study results indicated that the…

It is pointed out in this discussion that mentoring, as a delivery tool in a beginning teacher induction program, has great potential, and the use of experienced educators in guiding relatively inexperienced teachers is of value not only to the first-year teacher but also to the mentor. In examining the goals of mentoring-induction programs, the…

A model for teacher induction is presented. A carefully planned induction model requires the establishment of teams of colleagues from the public schools and the university. The role of the teams will not be to play out as a group the role currently played by the university supervisor or evaluator. Rather, the team will be selected on the basis of…

This study describes the impact of certain state-mandated beginning teacher programs on the transition from student to teacher. Program impact was considered at a number of levels: ideological/societal, institutional, instructional, and personal. Sixteen beginning teachers in two states with mandated induction programs were studied throughout…

Papers are presented on: (1) "Preliminary Findings of the Teacher Induction Studies" (Susan Barnes); (2) "Initial Problems of Beginning Teachers from the Perspective of the Higher Education Representative" (Larry B. Godley, Beverly Klug, and Donald R. Wilson); (3) "Support and Assistance Provided First Year Teachers"…

This manual offers suggestions for the first year teacher with ideas and advice compiled from educational literature and questionnaires completed by other first year teachers, principals, and education professors. Topics include: (1) curricular preparation; (2) physical environment of neighborhood and school; (3) school rules and regulations; (4)…

This report describes some of the procedures for helping first-year teachers begin the school year which were used in the Model Teacher Induction Program (MTIP). The first section briefly describes the development of the MTIP, a research-based program dealing with specific issues facing first-year teachers. Section two, which focuses on the…