A rapid reporting system was designed to help resource teachers stay aware of the regular class performance and assignments of their students. Advantages of the note card approach include reminding the regular teacher of the student's need for extra attention, increasing recognition of the resource program, and providing feedback to students. (CL)

Here is a high-class how-to-do-it for vocational educators who have amassed certain types of know-how somebody else doesn't have. (Editor)

Taking part in the autism spectrum disorder participatory action research (ASD PAR) project was a genuine team effort for the group of people supporting Rose, a primary school student with Asperger syndrome. The following excerpts are from interviews with some of Rose's team. This is a collaborative approach to telling the story of the team's…

This study investigated the assessment practices used by resource room teachers in Jordan to determine eligibility for learning disability, and to identify assessment obstacles. The study also investigated whether assessment practices and obstacles of assessment differ among resource room teachers as a function of gender and academic…

Suggestions for beginning special education resource teachers are summarized in eight general categories: district policies, time lines, regular educators, other resource teachers, assessment, materials, parents, and the students. (CL)

This short article describes a psychiatrist's experience teaching a unit on dinosaurs to a group of 16 normal children. He remarks upon the kindness and mutual cooperation apparent among the children and contrasts them with children undergoing therapy. He suggests that closer interaction between school officials and mental health workers would be…

Article describes the role of a special resource teacher available in the school to provide crisis-intervention service for a pupil when his coping process begins to fall apart. (Author/GB)

It was found, among other things, that 80 percent of the resource room teachers surveyed saw consultation actually comprising 5 percent or less of their professional duties. (DLS)

The purpose of this grounded theory study was to identify the need for educators' use of lesson study as a professional learning community to increase communication between colleagues. Lesson study is considered a form of professional development in that, educator colleagues work with one another to plan, implement, critique, and revise a lesson…

Background/Context: Among the children of immigrants, one of the populations placed at greatest risk of not finishing high school are the children of migrant farmworkers. Although it is difficult to track graduation rates for migrant students because of their mobility, the U.S. Department of Education estimates that only half of all migrant…

A discussion of using a fellow human being as a learning resource. (Author/HB)

Resource teacher systems serving learning disabled children are discussed in terms of the varying dimensions of type of service (direct versus indirect), diagnostic/prescriptive orientation (ability versus skill), and delivery (resident versus itinerant). Individual resource programs are thought to vary on the dimensions due to intransigent…

The article describes the role of teacher consultants in working with classroom teachers, school counselors, and parents at one high school for academically gifted students. Two examples of how a teacher consultant effectively altered the performance of two students with organizational and study skill problems are offered. (Author/DB)

Resource teachers (N=420) in grades 1-12 identified 32 competencies for effective resource teachers including knowledge and skill in employing a variety of methods for teaching reading, ability to deal effectively with personal/professional frustrations, ability to communicate with parents, and knowledge and skill in behavior management…

Elementary resource room teachers (N=144) of gifted students were surveyed about occupational stress. Results revealed no significant independent relationship between stress and continuous or age variables. Eleven items, led by financial security and relationships with teachers, were identified as extremely stressful. (CL)