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Schneider, Ann M. – School Business Affairs, 1993
Improving the leadership skills of the school business manager will promote organizational structure, norms, and policies. A district staff-development program in consensus skills can simultaneously address problems and develop skills. (MLF)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership Responsibility, Management Development
Crabbe, Anne B. – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1991
The Future Problem Solving Program involves teams of students from grades 4-12 in creative problem solving. The teams complete practice problems and competitive problems. Winning teams go on to state and international competitions. Other program components include noncompetitive problem solving for primary-level students, community problem…
Descriptors: Community Problems, Competition, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education
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Kroeger, Stephen D.; Leibold, Cynthia K.; Ryan, Betsy – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1999
Discusses strategies for encouraging student participation in the development of an Individualized Education Program for a child with a disability. Outlines the significant steps in the process including developing a vision, prioritizing learning needs, collaborative problem solving, setting goals, and planning the intervention. (CR)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Education Programs
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Hjorne, Eva; Saljo, Roger – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2004
The purpose of this study is to analyse pupil welfare team meetings as an institutional context for handling dilemmas of schooling. Our focus is on how difficulties encountered by teachers and pupils are categorized and accounted for by team members (teachers, school administrators, and various experts). As a discourse community, the pupil welfare…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Student Welfare, School Personnel, Meetings
Ranieri, Kathryn L. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2004
Effective problem-solving skills are critical in dealing with ambiguous and often complex issues in the present-day leaner and globally diverse organizations. Yet respected, well-established problem-solving models may be misaligned within the current work environment, particularly within a team context. Models learned from a more bureaucratic,…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Problem Solving, Guidelines, Work Environment
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Dinan, Frank J. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2006
The time and effort spent during the first days of a new semester are key to the success of the class that lies ahead. What happens during these first days can set a tone that inspires students to work actively and cooperatively to achieve success in the new semester, or to sit back and assume a "here we go again" attitude. In this article, the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Success, Organic Chemistry, College Students
Kansas Univ., Parsons. Schiefelbusch Inst. for Life Span Studies. – 1995
This set of four short videocassettes promotes the use of promising practices advocating fully inclusive education for students with diverse learning abilities in their neighborhood schools. The first video, titled "Seven Steps to Problem Solving," presents a problem-solving process that empowers teams to work together to meet diverse…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools
Imel, Susan – 1992
The Family Support Act (FSA) of 1988 provides opportunities for educators to form linkages with other agencies to strengthen families and help them move toward self-sufficiency. The FSA affords professionals chances to forge critical interagency connections and expand the range and capacity of programs for learners at risk. A strategy for forming…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, At Risk Persons, Cooperative Planning, Employment Services
Walters, Susan A. – 1991
Implementation processes and outcomes at a junior high school of the Mastery in Learning Project, an NEA-sponsored national school transformation effort, are described in this paper. Based on the principle that a school's decisions should be made by its faculty, the project seeks to develop teachers' ability to creatively and cooperatively use…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Faculty Development, Information Networks, Information Utilization
Meussling, Vonne – 1987
Reporting on a public relations course at Indiana State University, this paper presents specific guidelines for students to use in converting the classroom theory of creative problem solving, persuasion, promotion, publicity, and management into the actual staging of a special event and/or fund raising. The paper offers suggestions in the areas of…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Field Instruction, Higher Education, Management by Objectives
Yau, Maria – 1988
A literature review is presented on four alternative models of delivering special services to learning-disabled students. The literature search was conducted to identify pedagogically sound, effective, and efficient program approaches as alternatives to resource room programs. The four models identified from a search of the Canadian, American, and…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
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Laughlin, Patrick R. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1978
College students, ranked as high, medium, or low ability, were assigned to homogeneous or mixed-ability groups of two through five members for a test. Performance proved proportional to the number of high ability group members. The underlying group process was inferred through social decision scheme analysis. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, College Students, Decision Making, Group Structure
Brain, Carol A. – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1987
An elementary school-based team (SBT) problem-solving model is described. Intended to provide recommendations for initial screening, assessment, and instructional alternatives for students with learning problems in mainstreamed settings, the SBT is discussed in terms of benefits, potential problems, developmental sequence, functional processes,…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Delivery Systems, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education
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Galligan, Sara – Special Libraries, 1985
Characteristics of group facilitator are similar to those of information specialist as one who gathers information, clarifies questions, builds up and breaks down knowledge, presents balanced points of view, and defines problems and strategies for resolution. Information specialist has opportunity to meet organizational needs through traditional…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Information Scientists, Information Services, Management Teams
Forrest, David – Training and Development Journal, 1984
HRD (human resources development) is tackled by the author, who argues against HRD's psychological construct; the assumption that for every problem, there is a theoretical and workable solution; teamwork as opposed to individualism; listening as a discrete skill; if it's Japanese, it's better; and HRD's theory of leadership. (CT)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Leadership Qualities
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