A University of North Texas project used a team approach to develop a curriculum integrating academic subjects into vocational curricula. Ten teachers cooperated on integrated junior high/middle school lesson plans and classroom support activities. (JOW)

Discusses models and strategies to integrate academics in secondary vocational training programs. Recommends that academic credit move toward being competency-based much like its vocational counterpart. (JOW)

Discusses development, training, and coordination practices for teams consisting of vocational counselors, vocational teachers, and special needs support services providers. Presents eight models for integrating postsecondary academic and vocational programs. (JOW)

Describes adaptation of children's Musical Chairs game, illustrating different animals'"quest for cavities." Game uses role play to simulate wildlife "cavity excavators" and secondary-user animals that compete for nesting holes. Classifies 44 animals according to nesting practice and gives hole sizes for 25. Promotes ecology, conservation studies.…

Results are reported from a study which sought to examine (1) potential gender bias between male and female physical education teachers (N=6) and school level, (2) the extent to which a teacher might be gender typed, and (3) the extent to which students (N=164) perceived differences in teacher treatment. (IAH)

Results are reported from a study which compared attitudes of fourth and fifth grade children (N=414) toward physical activity in classes taught by specialists (N=4) versus those taught by nonspecialists (N=7). Findings suggest that teachers play a minimal role in children's attitudes toward physical activity. (IAH)

While national and local coaching education programs exist, they don't seem to be based on what coaches need and want. This study was conducted to determine coaches' and athletic directors'(N=4,923) preferences in coaching education. (Author/IAH)

This feature examines several issues related to the future of dance education: dance education within the context of futurist thought, core knowledge of dance, performance-geared dance training, a paradigm for dance education in the postmodern world, goals for the future of dance education, and strategies for dance education advocates. (IAH)

Presented is a study which focused on using turtle graphics programing for geometric problem solving. The goal was to investigate changes in children's mathematical knowledge and results indicate that the LOGO environment enriched children's geometric conceptualizations and sophistication of their geometric thinking. (KR)

Contrasted are two review lessons of two secondary mathematics student teachers with those of their high school cooperating teachers. Differences between the review lessons were analyzed by interpreting teaching as a complex cognitive skill and as improvisational performance. Expert-novice distinctions are discussed. (KR)

The article argues that, when judged on the basis of the strength of its research base, J. Renzulli's three-ring conception of giftedness is of questionable validity. Research on all three bases of the definition (above average general ability, task commitment, creativity) is reviewed. (Author/DB)

In response to a critique (EC 231 995) of the research bases of his three-ring conception of giftedness, the author notes selectivity and bias in the critic's methodology, raises larger issues (such as equity) underlying identification and programing for the gifted, and discusses the role of theory and the need for action. (DB)

Two studies investigated humor among a total of 151 gifted adolescents. It was found that (1) in a sociometry of humor test, gifted adolescents received either few or many choices in a bimodal distribution; and (2) gifted adolescent humorists were more extroverted, more creative, and lower in need for social approval than other gifted adolescents.…

The study with 308 teachers in 3 states examined criteria preferred by teachers when recommending students for gifted programs. Overall, the criteria of creativity, learning quickly and easily, initiating own learning, and curiosity were chosen most frequently. Teachers of the gifted preferred criteria most consistent with theorists'…

A Skills Reinforcement Project for 46 sixth grade students (many of whom were Black and Hispanic) not quite qualifying for the local (Pasadena, California) gifted program provided Saturday classes and a 2-week summer residential program. Significant gains were made in mathematics (but not reading) achievement resulting in increased program…