Explains a written form beginning teachers can use to record their competencies in nine areas: classroom climate, creative curricula, complimentary communication, planned progress, particular practices, productive performance, reflective teaching, reliable tools, and relevant training. (HOD)

Proposes that high school teachers and college and university librarians work together to help students make the transition between high school and higher education or work. Describes a program now in operation in Moorhead, Minnesota. (FL)

Explains that the lack of preparation of teachers for work in rural areas, the excessive workload, and the poor working and living conditions have greatly impeded efforts of the Soviet Union to recruit and retain quality teachers in rural areas. (HOD)

Provides a composite view of the combination of teacher qualities and actions that make a teacher effective. (HOD)

Describes the Jobs for Bay State Graduates component of Jobs for America's Graduates, a private sector-oriented youth employment program. (FL)

Discusses how one school district involved students in curriculum planning as an outgrowth of a district-wide unit in leisure-time study. (FL)

Describes the energy conservation program devised by the Houston, Texas, Independent School District. Explains steps taken to involve students, teachers, staff members, and administrators in the program. (FL)

The author traces changes in American social studies teaching about the Soviet Union over the past 30 years. He finds that these changes parallel shifts in the political mentality from the Cold War, through detente, to America's renewed suspicion following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. (SJL)

Outlines a year-long approach to monitoring student progress and soliciting help from parents and pupil personnel staff when learning problems develop. (SJL)

Mediocre performance in the principal's office and in the classroom is argued to cause the declining performance of students. Reasons for poor performance and methods of combatting it are presented. (KC)

This article focuses on some of the humiliating practices forced on secondary teachers--practices which discourage and drive away productive and talented individuals. Included are: presence of nonlearners in the classroom, lack of opportunity for teacher participation in decision making, and lack of esteem given teachers by the public. (KC)

Presents a theoretical construct of teacher supervision within the time constraints common to most principals. Offers suggestions for modifying the preconference, observation, postconference cycle of teacher evaluation to make it more efficient and effective. (FL)

After describing Korea's political and educational history from 1592 to present, the author concludes that the social and educational experiment of Yushin--a movement meant to provide better living conditions for the common people and to yield unity among Korean people--is worthy of our attention in the United States. (KC)

Following a brief discussion of the "occupational diseases" of teaching are some questions which teachers can ask themselves to help define for themselves how they might use the teaching process to enrich themselves as people. (KC)

This article describes a process for staff involvement in the selection of secondary school teachers. Special attention is given to determining teacher selection criteria which will contribute to staff balance--the optimum mix of faculty by age, sex, race, and other variables. (SJL)