Studied high-school sophmores, who through group training, were given contraceptive information, steps for solving problems, and practice in communicating decisions about sexual behavior. Compared with untrained, control-condition teenagers, trained teenagers had more positive postest scores on measures of sexual knowledge, interpersonal problem…

Three developmental approaches in teacher education are described. The first approach entails matching curriculum content with teacher concerns, enabling teachers to be motivated to learn. The second approach considers teacher development as a form of cognitive development. The third approach is a style of inservice work emphasizing self-directed…

Describes an education program designed to improve the literacy of Australian students from non-English speaking migrant backgrounds and to increase their knowledge of Australian history. (HTH)

Experiential teaching is seen as an approach for developing life skills through field trips, career education projects, self-awareness experiences, and group activities. (SB)

The learning process model is based on trainee input and is especially designed to help trainees learn basic interpersonal relationship skills, review program and professional expectations and opportunities, assess their potential and motivation for different careers in teaching and related professions, and examine their career objectives. (Author)

Human Relations Training (HRT) groups increase the skill level of participants with regard to interpersonal functioning and provide a medium for positive personal growth. HRT groups seem to be possible resources for dealing with teacher burn-out and providing an effective medium for inservice education. (Author)

Deplores the preoccupation with isolated skill teaching among reading teachers. Calls for reading competencies to be taught in the context of reading that has meaning, interest, and significance for the reader, and stresses the importance of instruction in the thinking strategies that contribute to mature reading. (ET)

The implication of an organized classroom guidance curriculum is far reaching. By blending cognitive and affective learning, one can teach the whole child the skills for dealing with stress, decision making, and productive living. The guidance personnel and teachers need to work together as a team. (Author)

This program provides students with an assessment of their strengths and weaknesses in terms of specific functional skills, including organizing and planning, decision making, and leadership. Responses to the program indicate that students desire more self-knowledge and want educational institutions to prepare them for broad-based life activities.…

Undergraduate teacher trainees can be trained to be sensitive perceivers of helpful teacher/student interaction styles; such perception does not occur without training. Longer, concentrated training sessions over a shorter duration seem to work with undergraduate teacher trainees. (Author)

A task analysis model for analyzing and teaching community living skills to the mentally handicapped was developed and validated with five moderately retarded youths (ages 17 to 20 years) who were taught mending skills (sewing hems, buttons, and seams). (Author/DLS)

Investigated sex differences in mathematical and spatial (visual-analytic) skills in groups of Hispanic, Black, and White students prior to and during adolescence. (JMB)

Methods for teaching writing skills are described. Techniques include utilizing writing exercises as they present themselves in content courses, establishing an honor system, individualized instruction, and repeated practice sessions focusing on specific writing skills. (LH)

The normative developmental model is discussed in terms of its implication for assessment and instruction for severely/profoundly retarded children. (Author/PHR)

A combination of Eastern philosophy and cybernetics leads to a method of improving athletic skills (especially basketball) which is based on the theoretical basis of Maltz's philosophy of successful goal attainment. The method is relevant to the total educational process and to counselors. (SB)