Provides general guidelines for conducting educational research in the field of individualized instruction. (CS)

Offers information and guidelines delineating the roles and responsibilities of an adviser to student publications--to safeguard students' First Amendment rights and to ensure that students will have freedom of expression. (RL)

With the public demand for "back to basics" in education, the author outlines the responsibility of professional educators to take a leadership role in promoting home economics programs. She relates home economics to the basics as a life skill and offers guidelines for educators in community public relations. (MF)

Successful placement of vocational graduates depends on the actions and motivation of the graduate. Vocational educators must teach students how to (1) broaden their employment potential; (2) locate potential places of employment; (3) secure a job; and (4) keep a job and advance in it. (LRA)

This is the text of a presentation at a meeting of the Hoosier Association of Science Teachers. Recommendations are given for planning science in the elementary and secondary school to satisfy the Comprehensive Assessment and Program Planning System (CAPPS) mandate in Indiana. (SA)

A national survey of the faculty evaluation methods and criteria used in colleges of pharmacy in the United States looks at student evaluation of teaching, peer evaluation, administrative ratings, alumni ratings, and review by teaching experts. The resulting guidelines for teaching evaluation, based on teaching activities and measures, are…

The author suggests that the cooperating music teacher prepare the student teaching experience as a formal class, presenting the student teacher with a written syllabus and assignments. He discusses timing and procedures for the consecutive phases of the student teaching term: orientation, observation, practice lessons, and, finally, teaching…

Practical considerations and suggestions (in areas such as first aid, staff protection, and sanitation) for providing services to multiply handicapped children in public schools are provided. (PHR)

Ways are suggested through which the teacher can help children and parents during divorce and in the single-parent family situation. (SJL)

Discusses the legal obligation of distributive education teachers under the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 and the Vocational Education Amendments of 1976, mainstreaming, characteristics of special needs students, implications for instructional modifications, and the need for teachers to develop a positive attitude toward these…

Vocational agriculture programs have many built-in aspects that can help low ability students develop a favorable self-concept. To influence a student's self-concept, a teacher must be or become a "significant other" in the student's life. In addition, teachers should create a proper classroom atmosphere and encourage/supervise student activities…

Teaching adult students requires not only academic or technical expertise but also a sensitivity to the various emotional states of adult learners. The article presents guidelines for in-service workshops for teachers of adults to help them achieve awareness, sensitivity, and empathy with adult students and with each other. (MF)

Focuses on potential values (for example, saving time and money and presenting high quality materials) of using packaged courses or programs for training. Examines some objections to prepackaged materials. Offers planning and decision-making suggestions for choosing suitable materials. Proposes questions for evaluating commercial programs. (CSS)

This paper describes procedures that resulted in a 90 percent return in a random sample survey of inner-city youth. Included are: selection of interview sites; recordkeeping; call-backs; techniques for dealing with reluctant interviewees; and composition of interview teams, including sex and ethnic matching with sample members. (SJL)

Provides several suggestions concerning how public television might organize to approach the future. Suggestions include accepting the telecommunications center concept, revising the structure to provide a stronger national service, sustaining local programing, and providing new services. Government role, a new federal funding plan, and the system…