Briefly described is a university project which trains foster mothers to train high risk children from birth to 5 years of age in gross motor, fine motor, personal-social, language, and perceptual cognitive areas of development. (MC)

The contrast between the real power and the experience of impotence that millions of bright, earnest school children attest to prompts one to enquire into preplanned impotence and self-defeat. (Author)

Article discusses how behavioral objectives may be utilized in instructional systems. (GB)

Analyzes the teaching process, its neglect of emotional considerations, and suggests exercises for developing emotional awareness in the classroom. (RK)

Purpose of this experiment was to examine the effects of three sources of model content and two types of information content in an attempt to further clarify the effects of modeling procedures in teacher training. (Authors)

The in-service effort described here was an Institute Program sponsored under Title IV, section 404, of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to assist those school personnel faced with the myriad of problems occasioned by desegregation-integration activity. (Author/CB)

The effect of response cost (withdrawal of tokens), aversive sound stimulation (contingent presentation of loud noise), informative feedback (contingent presentation of neutral stimulus), and no treatment were compared in suppressing disfluent speech in 40 educable mentally retarded clients (median age 22 years). (Author)

Two hundred questionnaires which asked respondents to indicate the relative effectiveness of nine different training methods for achieving each of six training objectives were mailed to the training directors of firms with the largest number of employees. (Authors/MB)

A device called binging'' is used in training ironworker apprentices--to test self control and trustworthiness, to establish temporary status in work settings where competence is unclear, and to communicate group expectations and job-related information difficult to share another way. (Author/JB)

Described are the procedures being employed by the Army in its attempt to employ systems concepts in all of its training programs. (LS)

Cross cultural training encompasses any action an individual takes in a culture other than his own which involves a confrontation between his values and those of others. The author explains some training techniques in the cultural awareness" approach: role playing, programmed instruction, and video tape self-confrontation. (Author/JB)

Behavior modification programs with a profoundly retarded 7-year-old boy developed a self-feeding operant, taught him to respond appropriately to a verbal command, and greatly increased his ability to stand without support. (Author/KW)