Emphasizes the importance of teaching elementary students performance and audience etiquette through example and repetition. Contends that elementary music teachers can educate their students about certain "ground rules" for social conduct through basic standards for students when in the role of performer and audience member. (CMK)

A conference on the role of the department/division chairman in the community college was sponsored by the Community Junior College Graduate Program of Sam Houston State University. The following were presented: (1) "Role of the Department Chairman in Improving Community College Instruction" by John Lombardi; (2) "Role of the Department Chairman…

Maintains that positive results are yielded to students and to society when controversial issues are dealt with in the social studies curriculum. Suggests that the role of the social studies teacher is to help students explore controversial issues in an open, nonbiased, and nonthreatening atmosphere. (Author/DB)

A major nuclear exchange between America and the Soviet Union would probably result in the total annihilation of humankind. Social studies educators have a special responsibility to their students to search out all viable alternatives to nuclear deterrence and to make them known. (RM)

Attempts to stimulate teachers in business education to reexamine their teaching methods or strategies to meet the needs of the slow learner. (SH)

At the School of Educational Change and Development at the University of Northern Colorado, professors cannot rely upon rules and authority relationships but must utilize their own personal and professional judgments for the evaluation of students and students' programs. (HMD)

Primary purpose of schools, according to the author, is fostering intellectual development in all children. (MB)

New kinds of productive liaison" are developing between parents and school professionals, based on mutual respect and shared understandings. (Editor)

This presentation focuses on: (1) health policy statements issued by organizations concerned with education; (2) statements by authorities supporting view that general education must include health concepts; (3) educational philosophy which provides justification for health education; (4) health education responsibility of classroom teachers; and…

Discusses current social and educational conflicts that will continue into the 1980s, including back to basics, competency-based education, tax reduction proposals, special education legislation, energy shortages, inflation, and lack of discipline in the schools. Elementary school social studies is discussed with regard to these issues. (Author/DB)

Suggestions for changing the traditional roles of teachers as inactive learners and students as those who are taught were discussed with the goal of making the learning process coincident for both teacher and student. (RK)

The vocational teacher plays a preventative role in avoiding stripping the taxpayer. If the teacher understands his job as part of the total manpower effort, he will see certain services he can render to keep costs down and accountability up. (Editor/HD)

Specific social responsibilities of the college teacher in India are discussed with regard to his social position, his commitment to research, his representation of the intelligentia, and his obligations to youth and the community as a whole. (LBH)

A short historical approach to the problem is discussed, accounting for the concepts relating to the role of the teacher in both indigenous and western, Judeo-Christian Ghanaian society. These concepts are then related to the functions of the teacher in present-day Ghanaian society. (LBH)