This paper describes the interface between mental health and education and highlights the training needs of the mental health consultant in learning to work with schools and those of teachers in accepting and using mental health input effectively. (Author/JMF)

Peer clinical supervision can dissipate negative attitudes toward observation by creating a supportive environment where those supervised take control of their own supervision and are observed by professional peers. (JMF)

A comparison is offered between competency-based programs using a consortium model and field-based programs relying on teacher autonomy for use in teacher education programs. (JMF)

Eleven citations from the ERIC data base are offered concerning the cooperation among schools, colleges, and departments of education in the delivery of in-service education to practicing teachers. (JMF)

Educational psychology students in a field experience group showed no significant difference in achievement judged by scoring on final exams. (JMF)

Five different process-product studies are presented along with a definition of competency. Implications of these attempts to identify relationships between teacher behavior and pupil outcome are summarized. (JMF)

The Lincoln, Nebraska, Teacher Corps' contracting process offers an effective model for team teaching, individualizing/personalizing instruction, and demonstrating both teacher and learner levels of competency. (JMF)

A review of current research efforts reveals that there is little dependable evidence that teachers, under similar conditions, exhibit what has been defined as differential performances. (JMF)

Teacher evaluation programs are discussed including teachers' fears about the uses of evaluation, abuses of such programs, the uses of subjective vs objective competency criteria, and the relationship of evaluation to current demands for accountability. (JMF)

A model of teaching qualities is presented to provide teachers with a self-check aimed at improving their effectiveness. The activities and suggestions offered are designed to increase awareness of skills and characteristics of effective teachers. (JMF)

This article argues for the abolition of substitute teachers on the grounds that they waste student time and school district money and that the position degrades the individuals who act as substitutes. (JMF)

A pilot program for training cooperating teachers and bettering communication among all participants in the student teaching program is described. (JMF)

This article presents an inventory for a cultural immersion teacher education program based on the program at Indiana University. It offers a rationale and objectives of such a program as well as specifics for participant selection, presite preparation, on-site requirements, external supervision, and evaluation plan. (JMF)

Evidence is inclusive that dialect interferes with learning to read, and there is research indicating that a teacher's bias against dialect can mean lowered expectations and lowered performance. (JMF)

A brief introduction to information retrieval by use of a variety of computer data bases including ERIC is presented. (JMF)