The job of educational supervisor is often stereotyped and does not provide for communication with teachers and children. Head Start offers an opportunity for the supervisor to effectively observe and at the same time participate in the learning process at the center. (Editor/DR)

Abbreviated version of two papers, one presented at a symposium of the American Educational Research Association, February 1971; the other presented at the National Association for the Education of Young Children, November 1971. (Editor/MB)

Senior-high school industrial arts students are serving as teacher aides and individual counselors to junior high school industrial arts students. (GR)

The teacher appeared to be perceived as more of an instructional manager than as solely a provider of direct instruction. Categories perceived not to be primarily the teacher's responsibility included curriculum, adaptive aids, and behavioral instructional approaches. (CL)

Special education paraprofessionals play an important role in providing services to severely/profoundly retarded children, making their interaction with parents also important. Paraprofessionals need to be trained to communicate with parents and to serve as a team member in such functions as collecting information and consulting on home behavior…

Benshoff and others explore misconceptions about the inservice training needs, continuing education, supervision, and evaluation of rehabilitation paraprofessionals. A response by Emener draws distinctions between professionals and paraprofessionals. (SK)

For more than a decade, a principal of a large innercity elementary school in New Haven, Connecticut, convened a committee of parents and school personnel to interview candidates for positions as teachers and aides. About 50 persons were hired using this process, and all the teachers were successful. The interviewing process has since become…

Recently, one southeastern Idaho school's special-education aides were upgraded to paraprofessional status. All 28 para-educators are women, have at least a high-school diploma, and have job descriptions specifying what they should know and accomplish in the classroom. Training and compensation particulars are discussed. (MLH)

Questions about how best to deploy teaching assistants (TAs) are particularly opposite given the greatly increasing numbers of TAs in British schools and given findings about the difficulty effecting adult teamwork in classrooms. In six classrooms, three models of team organisation and planning for the work of teaching assistants -- "room…

An experienced kindergarten teacher implemented a 10-week practicum intervention designed to improve the classroom management skills of 9 kindergarten teacher aides. In-service training for participants included planned workshops, observations, team activities, coaching, and evaluation. Each participant concentrated on a specific skill or area of…

To provide assistance to teachers attempting to implement a thematic, discovery-oriented preschool curriculum under funding conditions preventing a desirable teacher-pupil ratio, a practicum was designed to recruit and train retired senior citizens and involve them as volunteer aides in the preschool program of a church school located in the…