Outlines how the principal can help the beginning teacher in six areas: achieving status with peers, gaining the principal's attention, becoming oriented, making a unique contribution to the school, growing personally and professionally, and associating socially with peers. (Author/JM)

The important intrinsic rewards of play present in athletic endeavour are being subjugated to wider societal pressures such as achievement orientation and overly competitive attitudes. (LH)

The shift from an interscholastic athletic program to an intramural orientation has eliminated the social pressure put on middle school students in Newton, Kansas, without injuring the regional high school's varsity player quality. (LH)

Reasons for the failure of special programs to help college freshmen adjust to school are analyzed. (JD)

The movement approach to teaching soccer is appropriate on the elementary level because the skills can be self-learned through problem solving, exploration, and guided discovery. (JMF)

The Avon Grove School District has a middle school orientation program for incoming elementary students and their parents, which consists of several visits and open houses in the Spring and at the beginning of the Fall term. (SJL)

While curriculum development in Canadian Studies has been substantive, a lack of consistency in describing the nature and scope of this area and a lack of easy accessibility to new materials remain a hindrance to the massive improvement that remains to be realized. (MB)

Reports an approach to the development of more effective diffusion strategies, using as a basis the personality variable "change orientation" of educators. An attempt is made to demonstrate that change orientation is a measurable characteristic of teachers. Suggests that the concept holds considerable promise for state-level leaders who…

The role of body-image boundary definiteness as a mediating personality variable in interpersonal spatial behavior under conditions of perceived threat was investigated. It was hypothesized that personal space would be positively correlated with body-image boundary definiteness. (Editor)

General university goals, especially that of public service, presumably legitimize extension's function. Various reasons are examined to determine why extension units are not accorded greater hierarchical status and fiscal support. Several implications for policy strategy are identified. (Author/BP)

Lists experiments and activities that will aid the young child in understanding the relationship between the position of a body in space and the directions of the force of gravity. (CS)

The authors present seven specific criteria for judging effective goal setting in counseling. These are described as goals which have been mutually agreed upon, promote achievement, eliminate self-defeating behaviors, and are success-oriented, quantifiable, behavioral, and understandable by the client. (Author/HLM)

Examined whether prudence and altruism, in situations involving future desires, follow similar developmental courses between ages 3 and 5. Tested children on ability to forego current opportunity in order to gratify their own future desires or those of research assistant. Found that between ages 3 and 4, children develop some common mechanism…

Because they fail to set consistent goals or direct funds toward solving systemic problems, U.S. schools are not structured productively. A productive educational system would focus all its energies on a limited number of clearly defined, stable goals and align its functions to achieve them. Productive school leaders would establish standards,…