Special educational paraprofessionals may experience burnout due to a number of factors, including stagnation, lack of career advancement, and poor salaries. Coping strategies may take the form of administrative prerogatives, teacher- and counselor-initiated strategies, and responsibilities of the paraprofessionals themselves. (CL)

To better understand the relationship of the morale of Extension agents and their perceptions of the leader behavior of the county agent chairman, 201 Georgia county Extension agents from 68 counties were studied. It was determined that agents' morale and leader behavior are significantly related. (AG)

Second of three articles on the general subject of college and university administration. (CB)

Staff morale is highest when teachers, and principals, really know the school community, and feel that their programs and methods have been consciously selected to serve their particular pupils. (Editor)

This article presents a brief discussion of teacher attitudes. (MM)

Research study findings are described which point out the various factors related to teacher satisfaction. (GR)

The authors recommend that as a result of this study, the Purdue Student Teacher Opinionaire be used as a tool to measure satisfaction or morale of student teachers and that such information be made available to those faculty members who are involved in student teacher preparation and supervision. (Author)

Doctor urges that Americans accept death as a part of life and suggests ways of helping dying patients and their families face reality calmly, with peace. Dying children and their siblings, as well as children's feelings about relatives' deaths, are also discussed. (PD)

Describes development of a morale questionnaire that discriminated significantly between a sample of schools of high and those of low staff morale both in Australia and in the U.S.A. (Author)

The author discusses the pros and cons of living and working in the same town. She presents her own experiences as examples for both sides of the question. (MS)

A process by which teacher centers can reduce teacher isolation and burn-out is described. (JD)

Teacher burnout in the special education teacher is defined, and suggestions for reducing burnout are provided. (SBH)

The main findings were that, in its present form, the Staff Morale Questionnaire is not suitable to measure teacher morale in England, that there is a need for future research into teacher morale, and that older teachers apparently display higher morale than younger teachers. (Author)

Although bus drivers, teacher assistants, secretaries, hall aides, and cafeteria workers are vital to the school organization, they are often overlooked entirely by inservice training and staff development planners. This article describes a Long Island (New York) school district's successful staff development day exclusively for nonteaching…