One method, among others, to improve the school curriculum is having teachers and supervisors visit innovative school-class settings. These innovative schools must exemplify quality teaching-learning situations. (Author)

This paper examines sources of two-year college teachers and looks at several of the programs currently being developed specifically to prepare teachers who plan to teach in community colleges. (Author)

The competency-based supervising teacher program (CBSTP) at the University of Georgia emphasizes six major competencies and a self-evaluation technique utilized by the teachers and college supervisors in a humanistic approach to working with student teachers. (Author)

This article explores the potential outcomes of out-of-the-classroom experiences as an educational vehicle for complimenting instructional efforts of higher education. The three example student services Explored were student rights, student government, and student counseling. (Author)

A multidisciplinary undergraduate course in correctional psychology is described, noteworthy features of which include field work experiences in criminal justice agencies, discussions with criminal justice personnel from a variety of disciplines and professions, and in-class role-playing exercises, as well as more traditional coursework. (Author)

A controversial report of the insults that graduate school generates, this article addresses questions of student identity, powerlessness, esteem, and psychological survival. It is a disturbing analysis of graduate student culture, graduate student/society relationships, and graduate student importance. (Author)

The galvanic skin responses of ten seniors currently completing student teaching assignments and ten freshmen with no prior special education work were measured to neutral, low and high arousal special education words. Seniors were significantly more responsive than the freshmen to all word types. (Author)

Adult students at NYU, age 28-57, were asked why they re-entered school to earn a B.A., and how they experience school now, after several years of employment. They said they enjoyed the learning experience a lot more, and felt less anxiety than during adolescence. (Author)

The role of the teacher and the role of the counselor are outlined and their relationship discussed. Each has special skills and knowledge to contribute to the development of the individual child. ( Author/BP)

During an academic year, approximately 60 beginning teachers are assigned to classrooms in the Barrow and Gaines Elementary field centers in Clarke County, Georgia. A checklist consisting of eleven competencies with specific indicators is used to evaluate the performance of each student. (Author)

The purposes of this paper are threefold: first, to critically examine student ratings of college instructors' teaching effectiveness; second, to advance a number of pertinent criticisms of student and peer ratings; third, to discuss several possible alternative solutions to the problems delineated, with their advantages and disadvantages. (Author)

The purposes of this study were to examine the attitudes toward women of various groups of college students and to study their attitudes in relationship to levels of exhibited authoritarianism. A greater percentage of authoritarian subjects perceived women in a negative way. (Author)

Moscow State University (MGU) is the central, most prestigious institution of higher learning in the USSR. It is also a microcosm of the Soviet System, and caters to its restrictions, to the detriment of the academic disciplines. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to determine student attitudes towards a participant-centered general orientation program conducted during summer advance enrollment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The over-all student reaction to the orientation meeting was highly positive. (Author)

Traditionally, the institutions of learning have systematically stressed the value and beauty of the European experience; however, they have not stressed the teaching of African culture in the same manner. This practice denies the "broadening effect" of general education, and the privilege of learning the Black experience through an organized…