The resource teacher's role as a consultant for learning disabled children in the regular classroom requires the skill of consultation which includes establishment of a contract, a working alliance, and a communications system between the resource teacher and the regular teacher as well as criteria for evaluation and termination. (DB)

All principals in the elementary, middle, junior high and high schools of the Atlanta Public School System were requested to select one school project involving human resources which they considered to be significant and successful. The information solicited about each project included grade level, number of resource persons involved by category,…

The Teacher Learning Center, developed by Bowling Green State University (BGSU), was designed as a public school-university cooperative approach to teacher education. The BGSU center was organized for a team teaching approach with two student teachers assigned to each cooperating teacher for 11 weeks. The 20 to 24 student teachers placed in the…

The article examines the curricular dilemmas of resource teachers serving learning disabled students and proposes an instructional content emphasis that would include school and society--learning skills. The article also offers the term learning specialist. (CL)

Thirty-five resource elementary and secondary resource teachers identified as major difficulties of their positions lack of inservice training to acquaint classroom teachers with the role of the resource room program, conflicts with regular class teachers, lack of funds and materials, and excessive paperwork. (CL)

A better developmental program, writes the author, must replace the old remedial'' approach, (Author/MB)

When regular class teachers and school staff realize that a gifted program can be of service to them, the program has the best chance for success. Among ways to create that ownership are involving staff in program planning and inservice, using their talents, and involving parents and community members. (CL)

A learning resource teacher reviews some of the current articles (especially concerning aspects of reading) in the learning disabilities journals related to research and the utilization of this information in the resource classroom setting. Concern is expressed regarding cuts in funding for research. (Author/CL)

In Anchorage, Alaska, resource teachers in the Classroom Music Program trained 450 elementary teachers to handle music in their own classrooms by means of packet-type lesson formats, a Music Jamboree cycle, and an assembly that reinforces previous teaching. (AM)

The article describes the diagnostic prescriptive teacher program, an organizational model designed to provide help within the regular classroom for children with mild learning problems. The key to the program is the diagnostic prescriptive teacher, a school-based specialist who combines diagnostic and consultative work in assisting the regular…

The author describes the range of services and duties of resource room teachers for handicapped students. Many conceptions favor the role of teacher consultant and emphasize needed skills in communicating with and demonstrating for peers. (CL)

Some schools are providing teachers with a special resource co-teacher to provide crisis intervention services for pupils when their coping capacity begins to fall apart. (RC)

The resource teacher's role in providing inservice training to regular educators is examined. The paper then describes an Action Plan Approach in which regular education teachers and the resource room teacher jointly identify problems commonly associated with mainstreaming and utilize combined efforts to resolve the problem. The advantages to the…

Comparison of behavior ratings of resource room (N=3) and regular (N=17) teachers of 29 elementary grade handicapped students found that regular teachers rated students as significantly more maladjusted than did resource room teachers. Correlations between the two sets of ratings were in the moderate range. (Author/DB)