This paper examines the role of agency-sponsored job coaches in supported employment, and proposes a broader concept of supported employment. Suggested alternative support options involve the active participation of supervisors and co-workers. These are titled the mentor option, the training consultant option, the job sharing option, and the…

Valued, experienced teachers can give superior classroom performances with help from a dedicated principal and a performance management plan that involves (1) pinpointing the teaching skill needing improvement; (2) supportive confrontation; (3) mutual discussion of alternative solutions; (4) definition of responsibilities; (5) followup and…

Schools must consider performance or authentic assessment as a way to increase learner interest, motivation, and independence. The Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory has developed a model that addresses the concerns of content-area standards and lifelong-learner outcomes. These include content-area concepts, complex-thinking processes,…

In a Lilly endowment study, field notes and interviews with two elementary teachers reveal that caring relationships between teachers and students played a large role in encouraging students' academic and social development. Teachers can promote caring by helping their students in ways they value and by using stories, symbols, rituals, and…

To support systemic restructuring, many organizations must redesign their internal structures, operations, and relationships with district and school clients. The article recommends systemic restructuring methods, identifying implications for helping organizations related to the nature of relationships formed with district and school clients and…

Studied responses of children aged 48-77 months to scenarios in which a friend or an acquaintance was frightened or angry. With friends, children were more likely to report sympathetic responses and propose an intervention. With acquaintances, children were less likely to intervene and more likely to report being unaffected. (BG)

Studied noninstitutionalized disabled elderly, finding that urban residents were more likely than rural residents to receive formal assistance in activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living. Rural residents were more likely to receive informal assistance and to receive more person days of informal assistance per week. No…

Interviews students with high levels of communication apprehension about their communication apprehension experiences. Describes students' reasons for speech apprehension, their reactions to instructors who suggest they seek assistance, their ideal ways to be approached by an instructor, their anticipated responses to an ideal approach, and their…

Telephone interviews with 294 people in Quebec involved in informal care of elderly persons found that perceived burden was related to level of assistance provided, participation in personal care activities, the elderly person's functional independence and health status, caregiver's age, relationship between caregiver and patient, living…

Overwhelmed by the prospect of facilitating the district's strategic planning sessions, a Pennsylvania superintendent called on some well-trained colleagues from another district to coach her in the process. This on-the-spot peer coaching helped the district accomplish its objectives by enabling the superintendent to play her facilitator role more…

The staff of an outdoor recreational or adventure program inadvertently, through its actions, may plant the idea of a lawsuit in an injured participant's mind. Lawsuits may be avoided by continuing the relationship of trust developed in the program and by helping the injured party get back to normal life or even rejoin the program. (SV)

Explores three aspects of management research supervision: range and adequacy of supervisory roles, processes of supervisory intervention, and perceptions of power relationships. Identifies actions for supervisees, supervisors, and organizations in terms of academic and supervisory roles, intervention styles, and power relationships. (SK)

To determine whether children younger than four have an authentic theory of mind, studies relying on deceptive hiding measures for indexing false belief were carried out. Children accurately anticipated the impact of deceptive strategies on the behavior and belief of opponents and used information management to help and hinder others' efforts. (BC)

Notes that mentor programs work well in the workplace, and contends that they can be just as effective on campus, where students need all the help they can get in choosing their career directions. Describes mentor program, explains how to match mentors and students, and offers set of questions for students to ask mentors. (NB)

Results of a survey of 1,230 workers in intercultural programs conducted by Christian agencies showed that those with an assistentialist approach believe individual failures cause poverty and define development as external intervention. Those with a facilitory approach view development as a transformative process through which people can solve…