Describes a simulation game designed to aid students in understanding the United States political pattern through a mock presidential nominating convention. Includes purpose, setting, time allotment, roles, game plan, and several speeches. (CK)

Describes a teacher exchange between a methods professor and a classroom teacher. Makes 11 recommendations for both planning and implementation leading to a successful exchange. (CK)

This article describes VISTA (Video Instruction for Students in the Teaching of Art), a pilot program which presents videotaped art lessons to kindergarten through third-grade children in School District #12, Adams County, Colorado. (Author/SJL)

The article describes a University of South Dakota neurotherapy program, which uses increasingly sophisticated diagnostic information to provide services to brain impaired children within their home and school settings. (DLS)

Describes three approaches to health care of adolescents that are oriented towards prospective health promotion: a new self-assessment questionnaire, the development of parent education and preparation classes, and counseling teams. (SS)

Describes several work training programs for youth administered by the Department of Labor, Office of Youth Programs. (SS)

Two models for planning activities in student personnel services are presented. One is highly centralized and the other incorporates planning in decision-making processes. The Office for Student Affairs at the University of Minnesota involves elements of both models in their approach to planning. (Author)

The author's system of premarital counseling and examination consists of four visits before marriage and one after. These visits are for introducing the contractual elements of marriage; taking medical histories and physical examinations; introducing a program for beginning marriage; and resolving problems in the early weeks of marriage. (BP)

Authors provide guidelines for a program utilizing learning stations designed to motivate, stimulate, and guide affective and cognitive education at higher levels of thinking for academically gifted students. This approach to enrichment is defined, and the role of the teacher as facilitator is considered. (SBH)

The article focuses on the skills required by the psychologists who work in a school program which provides psychological assistance to children with behavioral and learning problems. (PHR)

The article describes the development of creative writing ability in the three- to seven-year-old gifted child. Examples of the writing of this age group are used to illustrate the stages in the development of writing ability. (PHR)

The article describes the Summer Family Conference program which provides an orientation and counseling session for families in the New York City area who are just beginning to face the lifelong problems of caring for a disabled child in the home. (SBH)

The article describes a program at the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind in which students have an opportunity for practical experience in 25 on-campus or 8 off-campus work stations. Benefits to the employer and employee are discussed. (CL)

A language program using the Fitgerald Key (a method for teaching the order of words in a sentence) and diagramming has been used successfully with hearing impaired students. (CL)

The principal of a secondary school for emotionally disturbed adolescents describes the program at his school. (Author/PHR)