Mentorships are co-learning partnerships that link adolescents with community members in real-life experiences that can support gifted adolescents' emerging selves through ideal adult role models and social interaction. Mentorship programs have three goals (reality, relationship and responsibility) and five organizational components (screening,…

The article focuses on the role of talent search programs in local and state program development efforts for the gifted and talented. It explores elements of change and the change process itself in educational institutions choosing to participate actively in the talent search mechanisms. Indiana is cited as an example. (Author/CL)

Reviews the question of program impacts and their measurement. Illustrates the hierarchical levels of program development to clarify which levels are most concerned with differing areas of evaluation and impact study. (JOW)

This problem selection model for extension programing presents 20 criteria grouped in the categories of mission, indication of need, community support, impact, and organizational support and provides guidelines for weighing and evaluating the criteria when making program decisions. (SK)

The objective in this presentation is to provide an introduction to a conceptual framework and process for media program planning. (9 references) (Author/SJ)

A brief description of how the role of the studio teacher continues to be redefined.'' (Editor/AK)

The programme being developed by the UUA is designed to help children and young people to discover a process, based on understandings from situation ethics, for valuing-resolving the relevance various factors have in any situation requiring one's response. (Editor)

At the Milpitas City-School Recreation Department's "adventure playground," piles of scrap wood, cardboard, and other building materials are provided for building at the youngsters' inclinations. (MB)

A brief description of how the San Carlos Individualized Learning System was developed. (AK)

The nursing unit and the staff development unit must work together, the nursing unit determining the need for education and its content, and the staff development unit providing the effective educational methods. (EB)

This article outlines some of the significant events to date in a two-year history of a project which has produced attempts to 1) individualize instructional programs, 2) utilize film making in the teaching of English, 3) make driver training readily available, and 4) strengthen the bonds between the school and the community. (Author)

The author offers some suggestions for expanding the uses of instructional television in schools. (AK)