The inclusive service delivery model is a philosophy of education that involves changing how educators address disability and provide educational services. Arkansas has recently developed a plan to implement inclusion whenever possible to better comply with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act guidelines for students with disabilities.…

School counselors and school nurses strive to support the well-being of students in K-12 school settings. Both professionals often overlap and interact with the same students prompting the need for effective collaboration. The purpose of this article is to introduce a collaboration model to assist school counselors and school nurses in forming a…

Speech and language disorders impede young children's abilities to communicate and are often associated with a number of behavioural problems arising in the preschool classroom. This paper reports a small-scale study that investigated 23 Australian educators' and 7 Speech Pathologists' experiences in working with three to five year old children…

Children with serious emotional and behavioral problems often present challenges that far exceed what seems to be manageable. Despite the best intentions and efforts, youth move through multiple failed services because of the lack of progress, the "failure to adjust," and a presumed need for a higher level of care. Renewing Our…

In this article we illustrate the roles of school psychologists, administrators, social workers, teachers, and parents in school reform by describing the adoption, initial implementation, and formative evaluation of an evidence-based social and emotional learning (SEL) program within several rural Midwestern school districts in a geographically…

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2014 as the premier international human rights treaty focused on childhood rights and protections. In this article, we briefly review the 41 substantive principles embodied in the 54 Articles of the Convention and stress the need for educators, and…

The authors present a systematic training model for the helping professions developed by Robert R. Carkhuff. The model is further applied to the training of teachers. (BY)

Reviews the importance of reading in the primary grades, the emotional factors influencing reading, and the importance of the school counselor and the teacher working as a team to assist students with reading problems. (Author/BL)

Discusses the relationship between teacher and counselor roles. Defines the role of the human services educator and the expanding focus of teacher education. Discusses how the human service educator model incorporates the mutual professional interests of counselors and teachers. (Author/RC)

Evaluates a practicum supervision model using the three supervision roles of teacher, counselor, and consultant as methods of addressing specific supervisee issues. Supervisors performed the roles in structured supervision sessions. Utilization of the roles was found to be significantly effective in influencing the content of supervisee…

Provides a summary of sexist educational practices and a definition of the concept of androgyny as an alternative model of effective living. Explores the steps counselors can take in cooperation with the school staff to create a school environment that fosters androgyny. (Author)

The use by counselors of a Human Resources Development (HRD) model for preparing teachers to help in career education is discussed. In-service workshops for a counselor and a small group of teachers are proposed, and a step by step procedure for implementing the model is presented. (Author)

The Rehabilitation Counselor Education (RCE) Program at The University of Tennessee includes an educational-service component known as the Counselor-Teacher Unit in which the counselor/teacher performs a dual professional role as a counselor with State-Federal programs and as a lecturer at the University. (Author/BP)

This publication contains the papers presented during a 4-day teacher education seminar. The papers are: (1) "Rationale for Career Education" by R.N. Evans and G. McClosky, (2) "The Context of Career Education" by K. Goldhammer, (3) "Career Education Tenets" by A. J. Miller, (4) "Employer-Based Career Education: The RBS Model" by L.M. Maguire and…

Describes the five presuppositions regarding the nature of career choice and of student/teacher and student/counselor relationships which guide the off-campus learning program at Harvard College. Explains the eight-level vertical matrix model on which the program is based. (SB)