How can I help my children do better in school? Parents invariably ask this question. Here are 25 clip-out suggestions for parents to help their children and, in the process, become partners in learning with the school. (Author/RK)

Questions three traditional counseling models, and defines the role of counseling which has emerged in student development programs in Illinois community colleges. Programs range from traditional counseling center models to nontraditional programs, where counselors are fully integrated faculty members. (TP)

Described is a secondary school, risk recreation program based on adventure, cooperation, direct experience, and personality integration. The three-phase program (physical preparation, group trust, rope courses) offers students the experience of working in groups and of testing themselves against the real world. (MJB)

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)

The Jefferson County, Colorado, public schools (Jeffco) have offered an arts in general education program since 1971. Its intent is to infuse the entire curriculum, K-12, with arts activities and perspectives. (Author/RK)

The challenge for multicultural education is to provide an educational experience which will help develop and maintain multicultural competencies, often in opposition to negative multicultural educational influences of the societal curriculum. Presents a model of the multicultural skills, attitudes, and knowledge competencies that teachers should…

While parents' active involvement in their child's growth experiences may seem a simple matter, the involvement process is found to be a highly challenging system of human interactions. Considers this concept from a developmental viewpoint as well as questions that both teachers and parents should examine as they analyze their feelings and…

If theory-based student development programming is to become a reality, a thorough understanding of what is presently known about student development must be given priority in pre- and in-service training. (Author)

Early in 1976 the Department of Education and Science (DES) published "The School Health Service, 1908-1974" for the purpose of reviewing the school health service since its beginning. This paper attempts to demonstrate that this review is to an extent incomplete. (Author/RK)

Noting the need for a vocational agriculture curriculum that would consider "total" student development, the authors present a list (subdivided into tasks) of nine leadership and personal development competencies (determined by surveying 280 Ohio agricultural leaders) for inclusion in the vocational agriculture curriculum. Eight suggestions for…

The author suggests that multimodal education, with its focus on each element of the BASIC ID, is a systemic way for school counselors to contribute to child and adolescent development. BASIC ID is an acronym for seven components of human functioning: behavior, affect, sensation, imagery, cognition, interpersonal relations, and drugs. (Author)

Organizational facilitation of student development is a significant but difficult process in colleges and universities with traditional priorities on academic concerns. Organizational factors are analyzed and a model is proposed implementing student development through the accommodation of diverse organizational elements and by an integrated…

This is the second of a two-part series on moral education. In the first, the author questioned the effectiveness of Lawrence Kohlberg's system as an educational design. Here she dissects the entire formalist tradition in moral education to return to John Dewey for what she sees as the most effective way to teach moral education. (Editor/RK)

By providing adolescents with the opportunity to interact with a much extended social environment of humans past and distant, the history teacher is able to promote maturity of moral judgment as an important aspect of social development. Some normative data relating to this transition in adolescents are presented. (Editor/RK)

With what evidence, do you, the teacher, evaluate the child's work? With all this stir on accountability, the process of evaluation needs objective guidelines. Discusses the growth of children learning the art of printmaking and what to look for in evaluating their work. (Author/RK)