Excerpts from an interview with William C. Morse on teacher burnout concern special educators' sense of failure and impotence, the issues connected with individualized educational programs, and the importance of the first year of teaching. (CL)

The formation and function of a broadly based university planning group and its strategies for planning and education of various academic decision-making bodies that emerged in the adoption of the Institute Personal Assistance Program for troubled employees in a large university setting are described. (JMF)

A teacher who participated in the 1978 strike of the high schools in Thorton Township, Illinois, examines some of the contract issues and teachers' frustrations over administration's conduct during bargaining which made the strike, in his view, inevitable. (SJL)

Describes the characteristics, causes, and cures of burnout, applying this stress syndrome to the situation of adult educators. (SK)

The new scale was a better predictor of "avowed happiness" in both validation and cross-validation samples than the existing scales used for comparison. Moreover, the new scale's test-retest reliability was within an acceptable range for this type of scale. (Author)

Indirect self-destructive behavior (ISDB) is associated with direct suicide potential, dissatisfaction with the treatment program and with life in general, confused reasoning and judgment, poor prognosis for discharge, the absence of religious commitment, and significant losses in the patient's life. ISDB is an alternative form of suicide. (Author)

Although differences between remarried and first-married individuals are found with respect to past distress and feelings of family role inadequacy, the remarried appear similar to first-marrieds in current well-being and role adjustment. The remarried have developed a viable pattern of affective and role functioning. (Author)

The ways in which high school teachers cope with the potential boredom of their work runs the gamut from self-improvement through in-service education to leaving the teaching profession. (LH)

Reinforcement of appropriate student behavior in order to create peer role models is an effective disciplinary technique for physical education classes. (LH)

The school superintendent in Mansfield (Connecticut) gives teachers responsibilities that in most places are the superintendent's own. (Author/MLF)

Differences among impartiality, objectivity, partisanship, fanaticism, and skepticism are viewed as relevant to the role of the evaluator. The desirability of establishing a community of minds committed to argumentation before beginning an evaluation is suggested. (Author/CTM)

Successful teacher education and effective teacher and student motivation may be obtainable through a positive approach to the Hawthorne Effect, which is the principle that increased attention to an operative situation leads to an increased productivity by that operation, regardless of all other surrounding variables. (LH)

This study focuses on reported (a) satisfaction in stages of the life cycle; (b) levels of general happiness; and (c) frequency of peak experiences. Subjects were 48 undergraduate students (17 males, 31 females) at Laurentian University, Canada. Results from all three areas in this study accord closely with other relevant published work. (Author)

Explains how a game using Tinker Toys can be used to promote a sense of staff cohesiveness which is essential to the operation of school journalism departments. (KS)

Identifies several problems associated with standards-based teaching and provides solutions for overcoming them. Problems include curricular limitations, ineffective remediation, alternative choices, questionable tests, unfair labeling, educator morale, negative perceptions, reallocation of resources, and incompatible expectations. (PKP)