To facilitate the learning process, each school's staff must be empowered to maintain strong, consistent discipline; however, school discipline maintenance is also a total community responsibility. Whenever possible, teachers should solicit parental assistance in correcting discipline problems. Fort Wayne Community School Employees or other adults…

A study was conducted which partially tested the validity of assumptions of the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) based model of communication competence. Two research questions were explored: (1) how well can a CMM-based model predict an individual's perceived communication competence in a given context? and (2) how is an individual…

As complaints about the lack of discipline in schools increase, more educators are turning to student conduct codes as one component of a discipline program. In setting up an effective conduct code, the top priority should be clear communication of rules. To ensure this, all relevant parties--administrators, teachers, parents, and students--should…

This lecture discusses the changing role of the presidency. It looks at how college presidents came to know for the first time themselves as presidents, the academy, and the purpose of education. The importance of recapturing the spirit that originally brought them into the profession is stressed. Presidents are encouraged to continue to set the…

The "management of crisis," as opposed to crisis management," requires prior planning. Boards of education that habitually practice courtesy and have some knowledge of group dynamics do not create controversy by their own actions and will have fewer controversial meetings to manage. Policymakers should know ahead of time what issues are likely to…

There is a need for systematic comparisons and replications of research on questions concerning students' sexual behaviors and attitudes. To examine whether or not students' attitudes and behaviors toward sex and sex-related issues changed over a decade, 435 incoming freshmen in 1973 and 460 freshmen in 1983 were administered an anonymous…

This study used a random assignment pretest posttest control group design to measure the influence of sensitivity training on student teachers' perception and treatment of behavior problems of elementary school children. The control group received the traditional student teacher training, while the experimental group received, in addition, nine…

A formal elaboration of the original theory of achievement motivation (Atkinson, 1957; Atkinson & Feather, 1966) is proposed that includes personal standards as determinants of motivational tendencies. The results of an experiment are reported that examines the validity of some of the implications of the elaborated model proposed here. (Author/RK)

Parents' perceptions and expectations of their children's behavior and aspirations for their children's futures were examined in a study of 23 matched black and white families. The lack of clear cut differences indicates little support for viewing the black family as a social problem or as pathological. (Author/GC)

Describes the attitude toward and treatment of student behavioral problems in the K-12 Special Education Learning Center developed by the Hartford (Connecticut) Public Schools. They provide a positive attitude while stressing discipline and good behavior as a top priority and use many common-sense principles in handling disruptive behavior.(MD)

Norm setting is a type of student-teacher planning that develops mutually acceptable rules for specific class situations. The teacher guides students through a process that gives them ownership of the rules and therefore responsibility to live by them. (JOW)

Presents a model of social confrontation (communication episodes initiated when one participant signals that the other's behavior violates a rule or expectation for appropriate conduct). Describes issues arising during social confrontation. Concludes that negotiating expectations or relational rules within a problematic situation is the crux of…

Children's reasons for adhering to classroom achievement, moral, and conventional norms were collected. Reasons were coded into intrinsic and extrinsic categories. Developmental change and individual consistency in offering of intrinsic reasons across domains was assessed. (PCB)

Describes an alternative program for ninth-graders "having adjustment problems." The voluntary program includes simple and consistent classroom rules, frequent graded assignments, and a focus on relevance to students' life experiences; students are encouraged to do schoolwork through a system of group rewards. (MCG)

This paper describes the development of two scales designed to assess teacher tolerance levels, expectations, and standards for children's social behavior associated with handicapping conditions: the SBS Inventory of Teacher Social Behavior Standards and Expectations, and the SBS Checklists of Correlates of Child Handicapping Conditions.…