A program sponsored by Sheldon Jackson College (Alaska) educates and trains native Alaskans to work in the classrooms of their village schools as teacher aides or full-time staff. (RN)

Interviews with 23 itinerant teachers of students with visual impairments in Colorado gathered information on their views of the position, the challenges they face, and ways to improve the training of future itinerant teachers. The results offer insights into the positive and negative aspects of itinerant teaching, detail essential skills for…

This article describes the dilemma of the itinerant school counselor. School administrators feel a need for the itinerant school counselors and yet refuse to admit that these people need a decent available work space. (JC)

Describes the experiences of a teacher who works with hospitalized children with cancer who are facing surgery, chemotherapy, and other painful procedures. Through schoolwork, he is able to offer these children a sense of normalcy and provide comfort as they gain a feeling of connectedness to their regular lives. (SM)

Described is a program (developed by a residential school for visually and multiply handicapped children in Canada) of consultant/itinerant services for local schools enrolling visually handicapped children. (Author/BD)

Described is the Cooperative Educational Service Agency 4, based in Cumberland, Wisconsin, which serves hearing impaired students in a rural setting. (SBH)

The article describes the Teachers of the Talented and Gifted (TAG) program in Fremont, Nebraska, in which two itinerant TAG teachers visit each first- and second-grade classroom once a week for eight weeks to improve gifted identification in the primary grades and to demonstrate creative activities that can be useful to all students. (DLS)

A study was undertaken to ascertain the role of a field rehabilitation teacher of the visually impaired and to investigate how the teacher's time is spent in providing instruction and services to the clients in his or her caseload. (Author/DB)

Traveling classrooms for carnival kids didn't really come on the scene until the 1990s when Linda Brewer, a teacher of the Conklin International Academy, helped the idea get off the ground. The trade publication "Amusement Business" lists 325 carnivals in its annual booking guide, but fewer than a dozen shows have schools because it is expensive…

A variety of strategies that itinerant special physical education teachers can use to solve problems in order to teach effectively are explored. Discussed are strategies needed for teaching and strategies needed to work with other itinerant special physical educators. (MT)

A fictional (perhaps) description of the authors' experience as a visiting poet to a tough class. (CRH)

Article identifies problems of itinerant teachers of deaf students in rural Oregon and reports on a survey of 98 teachers of the deaf in Oregon. The study found 66 percent of teachers were working in itinerant positions, that 77 percent had not received any training for the itinerant role, and that 71 percent have some doubts about their…