"The purpose of this paper is to examine briefly present approaches to innovation and to suggest a new innovation structure. The primary focus is on secondary education. (Author)

Forty-two teacher consultants in Michigan completed a survey revealing role confusion and variability in provision of direct and indirect serivces. Consulting was not the primary duty reported by most of the teacher consultants. (CL)

Affirmative and negative positions on the resolution were presented in a debate at the 1982 Association for Communication Administration Seminar. Advantages and disadvantages of consulting to both the professor and the department were discussed. (PD)

Humorously reports two failed attempts to give inservice information on teaching writing in content areas. (JL)

Argues that all subject matter, from the training technologist's point of view, is the same because it is all treated in the same way (translated into behavioral condition/action terms) and shows that no phase of instructional development depends on the technologist's having prior subject matter knowledge. (Author/JD)

The author recounts her experiences in serving as a resource person setting up a mainstreamed program for a seventh-grade girl with multiple disabilities. The need for inservice training so that all personnel involved are aware of the circumstances of the disabled student is stressed. (PHR)

The role of state consultants in gifted education is discussed in terms of their contributions to parents, administrators, and teachers. Names and addresses of 58 consultants are listed. (CL)

Considerations that are deemed important to the consultation process are described. Comments on how personal variables of the consultant can be trained or modified to become more effective are presented. (Author)

Provides information on required personal characteristics, problems, environmental needs, action plans, deadlines, and evaluation for those interested in becoming consultants for business, industry, or education. (CMV)

Points out that many teachers of English and writing are interested in supplementing their income by becoming consultants. Discusses six major problems that consultants encounter: travel, competition, difficult relationships with clients, scheduling, getting started, and trying to show a profit. (TJ)

Major conceptual models for counseling supervision are described and compared: supervision as a counseling analog, as an instruction or teaching analog, and as a role that includes counseling and teaching aspects. Although each of these approaches makes use of familiar roles, none adequately provides the scope and utility required. (Author)

Administrators wishing to consult for institutional change must be able to negotiate political and ethical quagmires or risk seeing their goals (and themselves) slowly sinking. This article presents the ecological perspective, professional and ethical issues in environmental change, and the participatory perspective of the student services…

Action to take if a roof starts to leak. (MLF)

Describes recent events suggesting that Frank Press, a 52-year-old geophysicist who currently heads the department of earth and planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, may be named Science Advisor to the President. (MLH)

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