A Connecticut school's interdisciplinary team approach toward maintaining black handicapped students in the mainstream of a secondary school is described from the point of view of individual team members. The team consists of a social worker, a guidance counselor/psychologist, special education teacher, and reading specialist. The special…

The importance of collaboration between professional research and professional personnel in the classroom and school office is described, and suggestions are made for overcoming barriers to effective collaboration. Crandall's conditions for effective collaboration are: that the participants possess substantive competency; that both organizations…

This paper explores the value of collaborative research models in counselor training research. The focus is on a model that encourages interinstitutional collaborative research efforts, in which colleagues are brought together without a detailed purpose to generate and share research ideas. Several fundamental components of an effective…

The Blake Interaction Model presented in this manual is designed to eliminate three problems which usually confront a task force charged with the responsibility of program development in a conference setting: (1) how to involve simultaneously several work groups in the productive capacity developing solutions for several separate problems; (2) how…

This guidebook is written for coaches and parents of young athletes. In six chapters the following subjects are discussed: (1) coaching roles and relationships; (2) characteristics of the young athlete; (3) teaching skills to kids; (4) shaping up for competition; (5) getting them up, not uptight; (6) manaqement of a team; (7) winning isn't…

The paper outlines the program of services provided by a multidisciplinary professional team for the neurologically disordered child from preschool to young adulthood. Noted among the services offered are the following: an infant stimulation program, preschool prep program, group sensory integration program, special educational assistance, summer…

The primary purpose of this conference was to update members of the Teacher Corps on current issues in education as they relate to the Teacher Corps. Speeches delivered by individuals from federal, state, regional, and local levels of the Corps are printed in their entirety. (JD)

Examined with the placement teams of 230 handicapped students was the assumption that pupil programming team members drawn from the spectrum of school staffing hierarchy will agree on the goals of the team or be fully knowledgeable about the team's legally assigned responsibilities. Over 60% of the teams surveyed had less that a 3/4 majority of…

This study looks at the ways team teaching members work together, at their interdependencies, divisions of labor, and modes of coordination. It is a microorganizational study of teaching teams that looks both at factors which predict or explain how a team is organized and at the implications of these patterns of organization for (a) collegial…

The goals of this program in redefining school health were to (a) create a coordinated, educational interdisciplinary school health model to provide diagnoses, referral, or on-site therapy, as well as prescribe a definitive program for children with learning and behavior disorders; and (b) deliver this program in primary schools as on-site health…

In early 1966, the Denver Department of Health and Hospitals embarked on a city-wide, decentralized health program in an effort to provide family centered "team" health care to medically indigent patients. The program encompasses 28 different clinics and facilities. Factors hindering or influencing the final pattern of health care delivery…

Unesco's booklet is intended as a guide (1) for those involved in the planning and development of education in relation to rural and agricultural development and (2) for scientists, teachers, and administrators. In the document, rural development is considered in the context of overall economic growth and agricultural education in reference to the…

These are the authors' personalized statements of how organizations function, how organizational excellence is to be judged, and how an organizational development effort can contribute to the achievement of such excellence. The book deals with the fundamentals of planned change as they apply to the corporation. It describes the principles and…

One previously untested benefit of political advertising before elections may be that it serves "internal" as well as "external" needs, i.e., it boosts the morale of the campaign staff and provides them with information to persuade voters. This proposition was tested during the 1970 Wisconsin gubernatorial campaign by means of a questionnaire…

This research, developed by the Ford Training and Placement Program, observed a cadre or work group as a miniature replication of the social system of a school. The interim report presents the conceptual framework of group development and recording techniques used for analysis. The conceptual framework emphasized three phases of group development:…