Skills needed by the elementary school pupil personnel worker may be divided into the following areas: (1) counseling, (2) consultation, and (3) coordination. The counseling role can be of value not only to children, but also parents and teachers. Consultation is the process used to help teachers and administrators become better diagnosticians of…

The author discusses a variety of commercial interest inventories which may be used by the distributive education teacher-coordinator to guide students in exploring careers in the marketing cluster. ( MF)

Describes a comprehensive instrument used in the student teaching program at Florida State University to provide student teachers with the opportunity to evaluate all areas of their student teaching experience. (Author/RK)

Assesses the impact of the State sex equity coordinator, a position created under Title II of the Vocational Education Act Amendments of 1976. Argues that two features of the position--the specificity of its required functions and assured funding--increase the coordinator's effectiveness. (KH)

Suggests that correspondence education can be used to benefit students in regular schools by enriching curriculum, accelerating gifted pupils, making up work that has been failed or missed, resolving schedule conflicts, introducing adult education, individualizing learning programs, and providing adult evening programs. Outlines responsibilities…

Describes an internship program in the communication arts. Offers suggestions for implementing and monitoring internship programs. (PD)

Schools are moving toward greater differentiation of instructional staffs through the use of paraprofessionals. A sophisticated differentiated instructional program requires the assistance of paraprofessionals. (Author)

Two instructional coordinators, working with elementary teachers in low-socioeconomic-status schools describe how they reviewed research on two relevant instructional areas (strategies which increase students' time-on-task and direct instruction) and condensed their findings into a form usable by teachers--an inservice slide/tape presentation.…

The need in many schools for a clearer definition of the job responsibilities of teachers who are "teachers-in-charge,""coordinator," or "head of department," is addressed by providing details on how to write a detailed and comprehensive job description, specification, or definition. (MP)

The position of advising coordinator poses an administrative challenge. The advising coordinator must manage the provision of a service but not be a manager of advisors. The role is seen as important because of increasing emphasis on advising in many schools and colleges. (MLW)

Identifying qualities deemed important by outstanding cooperative technical education coordinators can help other coordinators improve their job performance through inservice and preservice training. Significant discrepancies in coordinator behavior are identified and disagreements between what is being practiced and what should not be practiced…

This study identified 100 performance tasks within 10 functional categories for distributive education teacher-coordinators who use the Interstate Distributive Education Curriculum Consortium individualized instruction system. The tasks provide an empirically based description of the learning manager's role. (SK)