Resource teachers (N=420) in grades 1-12 identified 32 competencies for effective resource teachers including knowledge and skill in employing a variety of methods for teaching reading, ability to deal effectively with personal/professional frustrations, ability to communicate with parents, and knowledge and skill in behavior management…

The article examines the curricular dilemmas of resource teachers serving learning disabled students and proposes an instructional content emphasis that would include school and society--learning skills. The article also offers the term learning specialist. (CL)

A learning resource teacher reviews some of the current articles (especially concerning aspects of reading) in the learning disabilities journals related to research and the utilization of this information in the resource classroom setting. Concern is expressed regarding cuts in funding for research. (Author/CL)

The article describes the diagnostic prescriptive teacher program, an organizational model designed to provide help within the regular classroom for children with mild learning problems. The key to the program is the diagnostic prescriptive teacher, a school-based specialist who combines diagnostic and consultative work in assisting the regular…

Written job description information of 76 resource programs was compared with administrator perceived resource teacher job requirements in the areas of direct instruction, assessment, administration, and indirect service. Results indicated significant differences with far fewer responsibilities being formally described than informally perceived as…

Suggestions are made for different approaches for preparing the classroom teacher, the resource teacher, and the neuroeducator, a specialist in learning disabilities. He advocates that neuroeducators should have exposure to fundamental areas of neurology, intelligence, anatomy, memory, cognition, and movement education. (CL)

Problems with applying the career education model to students with learning disabilities or any type of disability are noted and similarities in curriculum development theory are charted. The role of the resource room teacher in a career education model is noted. (CL)

Resource teachers can bridge the gap between themselves and music educators who work with learning disabled children by discussing schedules and goals with the music teachers and apprising them of students' learning strengths and weaknesses which are applicable to music education. (Author/MC)

The purpose of the survey of 500 resource teachers was to determine the prevalence of social dysfunction among learning-disabled students. Results indicate that up to 38 percent of this student population was in need of social skills intervention but that relatively few were actually receiving the needed intervention. (Author/DB)

The authors discuss ways to improve teachers' affective interpersonal communication skills and review a study in which interpersonal communication skills were found to be an important aspect of special education resource teachers' overall effectiveness. (CL)

Recent indications point to an increased nationwide interest in establishing resource-room programs for children classified as handicapped. (Author/DB)

To investigate the role expectations of the high school learning disability resource teacher, a behavior scale was developed to which 134 incumbents responded as to their actual and desired role performance. (BD)

The responses indicated considerable agreement among educator groups in their estimations of the percentage of time actually and ideally allotted to eight role activities, with support for more time in communication and consultation roles and less time in clerical and miscellaneous tasks. (Author)

Effectiveness of the MECCA program (Make Every Child Capable of Achieving--in which a learning disabilities specialist collaborates with a classroom teacher using a task analysis approach) was examined with 14 kindergarten age children in four MECCA classes, 17 children in four referral classes, and 37 controls. (SBH)

Major objectives of the teacher workshop are to increase the empathy and knowledge of the regular teacher concerning the characteristics and problems of the LD student, and to work out communication problems and increase the dialogue between the resource learning center teachers and the regular classroom teachers. (SBH)