The Intercession program at Glassboro State College offers students experiences not usually available during the traditional semester and provides teachers with unique opportunities to innovate. The Intercession program proves that structured flexibility, timeliness of topic, and group involvement will still be important tools for any teacher of…

This paper presents a working client/overall-program evaluation that has been used by a comprehensive out-patient drug abuse program to meet accountability requirements as well as therapeutic needs and demands. Six central criteria based on program goals are put into a rating instrument to measure client progress and program effectiveness. (Author)

Description of the Community Correctional Services (CCS) program for the 16th Judicial Circuit of Illinois, a program to provide quality vocational and employment services to youthful and adult law offenders. Servicing 250 participants in 1976 and 270 in 1977, the counseling and referral service is funded by the Comprehensive Employment and…

Integration of career planning with Veterans programs at the University of Cincinnati addressed special needs. The project consisted of several components: testing, counseling, exploration, and follow-up. (Author)

Any interview in which the client and counselor come from widely different cultures becomes a cross-cultural interview. The attempt is to train counselors in specific skills--even beyond those proven counselor skills from any one of the several theoretical orientations--that will help the counselors communicate with culturally different clients.…

Describes the scheduling changes that allowed for program improvement at the New Platz, New York, Middle School. (DS)

The CTEA process described provides a systematic, step-by-step process for comparing proposed training and education system alternatives. (Author)

Describes a program based on student-teacher discussion groups that resulted in improved student conduct and increased student participation. (IRT)

Describes a program that reduced teacher absences by 55 percent. (IRT)

Described are the weekday, Saturday, and summer programs for over 745 gifted children (grades 4-12) offered at the Talcott Mountain Science Center for Student Involvement in Connecticut. (BB)

A program to encourage cooperative play and social interaction was successful with six of seven physically handicapped children in a nursery school setting. (DB)

Described is a resource room program for children with communication disorders (language and speech disorders). (DB)

Describes an environmental action program taking place in the schools of five counties in Pennsylvania. The program deals with environmental problems on a practical level and offers technical and consultant assistance to schools and individual teachers. Specific action programs are described. (Author/IRT)

Divided into departments focusing on water analysis, marine studies, wildlife studies, and air analysis, Project Laboratory of Scientific Testing (LOST) is an exemplary ecological action program initiated by teenagers and furthered by community participation in Ithaca, New York. (JC)