Presents the objectives and philosophy, qualities of trainer and trainees, procedures and methodology, and evaluation techniques necessary for an effective writing skills program within a business organization. (RL)

Argues that there are many sources of information about schools other than standardized tests and questionnaires, and stresses the value of careful, unobtrusive observations that are well focused and intelligently interpreted. Lists numerous unobtrusive criteria for possible use in evaluating students, school programs, and school personnel. (JG)

Described is the Family Behavior Profile, a method for examining the social awareness of a mentally retarded person and his/her family. (Author/CL)

The authors stress the importance of social learning theory and ecological psychology in teaching social skills to the developmentally disabled. (CL)

The Feasibility Scale for Language Acquisition Routing, a technique for helping audiologists and other clinicians design language stimulation programs for young hearing impaired students, is described. (CL)

Described are the format and teaching methods used in an art project for educable mentally retarded children in Lincoln, England. (IM)

Described is the use of motivational strategy for instruction in remedial handwriting, and explained is the use of specific behavior modification techniques with a group of 10 students (9 to 11-years-old) with poor handwriting. (IM)

Discusses types of "play-work" in the preschool group, typical difficulties, problems of space and time, desirable requisites with respect to the children, and cooperation with parents. Positive in tone, the report ends with recommendations to use every opportunity for foreign language learning in preschool. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Frequently, universities prepare philologists of Russian for future careers as researchers, when most of them will become teachers of Russian as a foreign language. This article suggests a course of studies more suitable for future teachers. (Text is in Italian.) (CFM)

A discussion of the predominant foreign language methodology, the Practical-Conscious Method, used in the Soviet Union. The principles underlying the method are the cognitive mastery is primary to learning and that automatic habits are developed on that base. Both learner's intellect and teacher are essential in the process. (AMH)

Liberation theory from a Third World adult educator is seen as consistent with social work ideals and an avenue for social work education to travel in developing better learning and more motivated, knowledgeable, critical, responsible, and autonomous learners. (Author/LBH)

The teaching rationale and procedures used in a graduate course on human sexuality at the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago are described. (LBH)

A legal methods course is built upon a teaching case extended over a number of weeks and requiring the students to adopt various litigation roles. The course is described, along with its relation to current trends and questions raised in legal education, particularly education in the first year of law school. (LBH)

Helping students learn how to learn should be a major teaching objective and a major teaching skill in nontraditional education. Evaluation processes, both in planning and implementation, should be consistent with knowledge, values, and goals of nontraditional education, and their basis should be a theory of adult learning. (Author/LBH)

A critique of 13 commonly-held ideas concerning student-teacher relationships, discipline, goals and methods of instruction, and student motivation. (BF)