Purpose: Despite the crucial role that emotional intelligence (EI) could play in improving individuals' performance and career prospects in organizations, employees, executives and career professionals across the world are still in search of practical frameworks for understanding the concept. This is because EI research outputs from academics…

Presents 6 short articles in which teachers and counselors share their techniques for helping children develop self-reliance, self-confidence, and self-discipline. (JMB)

In this article, the authors explain how one of them helped a struggling reader develop reading, writing, and self-regulatory strategies. The article is based on two foundations: Marie Clay's, the developer of Reading Recovery, ideas on the self-extending system of reading and Schunk and Zimmerman's four developmental levels of self-regulation…

The study investigated whether a self control strategy training procedure was effective in improving compositions of two 12-year-old learning disabled students. Effects of training on three objective aspects of compositions (number of different action words, action helpers, and describing words) were investigated using a multiple baseline across…

The authors examine the importance of self-direction in education and review efforts to activate this skill in severely mentally retarded pupils, 16-19 years old. Such an approach to develop shared regulation in the curriculum features such strategies as verbal elaboration, imagery, auditory rehearsal, clustering, and sequencing. (CL)

According to Csikszentmihalyi (1988), creativity is a very complex interaction among a person, a field, and a culture. In keeping with this approach, a look at Asian culture in relation to its impact on creativity is in order. While people may vary in their native capacity for creativity, it is in the individual's interaction with the macrocosm…

More empirical studies are needed that evaluate interventions to improve the academic functioning of students with Asperger syndrome (AS). The purpose of this exploratory study was to evaluate the use of Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) writing instruction (Graham, Harris, MacArthur, & Schwartz, 1991) with an adolescent with AS. A…

Mainstreaming research findings related to environmental variables are explained to be most important to the ultimate success of mainstreaming efforts. Approaches useful in planning and achieving transfer of training in mainstreaming programs are offered. (SB)

The academic and social demands of school and classroom environments place unique demands on students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). Assistive technologies provide a resource that largely remains untapped in the management of behaviors. This article outlines four tips teachers may use as they select from an array of assistive…

A self-control strategy training procedure was effective in improving two elementary learning disabled students' use of parts of speech and mean number of words per story. Additionally, stories written after training received substantially higher quality ratings than those composed during baseline. (Author/CL)

The booklet describes the efforts planned by the Washington Research Organization (UWRO) to study ways in which generalization of skills may be facilitated by severely retarded individuals. It is explained that activities of UWRO are organized around four major tasks: descriptive and laboratory research; research in natural educational settings;…

A structured, student-centered approach to teaching hyperactive, emotionally disturbed children involves a contingency between instructional activities and play-time that is gradually faded out. During the instructional phase, behavior modification techniques are applied to shift students' behavior from external to internal control. Therapeutic…

Hyperactive and normal elementary students (N=27) were administered story conditions that differed in presentation rate and information relevance and repetition to determine whether listening problems of hyperactive children could be attributed to delays that encourage impulsive responding. Findings suggested that rate of information presentation…

Two strategies a teacher can employ to avoid some of the negative consequences of the least restrictive provision of P.L. 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act) are reversal peer tutoring and self-monitoring for change. (SBH)