Article addressed to preschool teachers, day care workers and Head Start personnel, who are called upon more and more often every day to help identify potential handicaps in the young children they serve. (Authors)

Describes the Staff Performance Improvement and Appraisal Program at Newport-Mesa, California (Author)

A Newport Beach, California, teacher evaluates that district's Staff Performance Improvement and Appraisal Program. (JF)

Address presented at the College of Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, during the autumn of 1971. (DS)

Techniques to help the elementary teacher evaluate students. (SP)

Having reviewed other studies, author describes a behavior modification program in a ghetto school which succeeded only after one teacher was led to change her own behavior. Material rewards were used as incentives to the children. One child originally rated below average and troublesome became the class model student. (PD)

Briefly discusses research done during the 1960's. (CJ)

Explains flow-chart system and describes its use in a research study which confirmed a negative correlation between self-concept and amount of teacher talk. (RT)

Discussed is a contract", formulated by the teacher and her students at the suggestion of the consultant, designed to encourage less disruptive classroom behavior. The arrangement permits the student to learn or not to learn without having to cope with nagging by the teacher. (Author/CJ)