In the sparsely populated 100,000 square miles of South Dakota and adjacent areas in Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota, a program (Project TAPE: Tactics for Applying Programs in Education) for disseminating information about elementary science curricula was funded by the National Science Foundation. Six part-time regional consultants were selected to…

The Florida Bureau of Employment Service within the Florida Department of Commerce has developed and implemented a competency-based counselor training model which includes supervisory competencies. This article is limited to a discussion of the basic components of the supervisory portion of the model and the presentation of an actual case. (Author)

The urban ghetto experience can play havoc with the educational process unless teachers understand the effect this experience has on their students. The author presents a framework by which the social work consultant can help teachers recognize their students' problems and create an environment that supports learning and growth. (Author)

A discussion of the role of the consultant in the Open University in Great Britain. (HB)

Medical information and expertise are concentrated in large population centers. This experimental program devised means of distributing these needed health care resources to rural and semi-rural areas. (MP)

A set of behavioral objectives was developed for the consultant role of the school psychologist, based on Meyers' consultation model. A Likert-type questionnaire was developed to assess the degree to which teachers and school psychologists agreed upon the desirability and the actual accomplishment of these objectives. (Author)

Describes three issues involved in communication research and consulting for multinational companies, particularly those in Germany: qualifications for doing international consulting and research, problems of American scholar-researchers in those firms, and suggestions for dealing with those issues. (JMF)

Surveys five basic obstacles frequently faced by the technical writing consultant: establishing goals, extracting information, assimilating information, translating the information into final form, and testing the information. (GW)

As the social and psychological needs of the members of this society continue to increase in complexity at all levels, including education, social and psychological delivery systems must adjust to meet these needs. The consulting school counselor model is not a cure-all, but a necessary part of the cure. (Author)

The authors consider the necessary conditions for group members and their consultants to study group processes together and summarize how consultants pass tests of the meaning and strength of their collaborative intentions. (Author/MLF)

This is an account of errors made by the author in his role as organizational change agent working as a process consultant. For each error there is an illustrative case study in which he was directly involved. (Author)

The author points out the problems with the consultant model as proposed in P. Newcomer's article (EC 100 217), and stresses the need for the special education resource teacher to work toward developing collaborative relationships (which offer an active rather than reactive approach) with other instructional staff in the schools. (SBH)

To benefit fully from the consultants and guest lecturers hired to conduct inservice training for teachers, the McDowell County schools (North Carolina) cultivate a "red carpet" treatment policy for such visitors. Success depends on good two-way communication, efficient hospitality arrangements, administrative presence at workshops, and an…

When hiring a search consultant to recruit superintendent candidates, school boards must consider more than reputation and reliability. This article discusses several important considerations, including availability, possible conflicts of interest, and techniques used to construct superintendent profiles, advertise the position, and reduce the…

From personal experience, warns writing consultants that clients measure success by employee productivity, and that writing problems may be disguised management problems, so consultants need to carefully diagnose problems, remaining alert for organizational issues having little to do with writing deficiencies. (JAD)