This volume presents 11 selected papers from the 14th annual conference of Teacher Educators for Children with Behavioral Disorders, held in Tempe, Arizona in November 1990. The keynote paper, by James M. Kauffman, is titled "Purposeful Ambiguity: Its Value in Defining Emotional or Behavioral Disorders." The next five papers address programming for students with emotional or behavioral disorders. They are: "REI: What the Regular Educators Are Saying" (Jane F. Carter); "Strategies for Integrating Students with Behavioral Disorders into General Education" (Robert A. Gable et al.); "Learning Time in Special Education Placement Alternatives" (H. Lyndall Rich); "Aggressive Children: A School-Based Kindergarten Program" (Carolyn Lennox et al.); "Tourette Students in the Classroom: Overcoming Educational Obstacles" (Donnajean Mandler-Provin and Robert N. Jones). The remaining five papers address social skills and social competence. Titles and authors are: "Social Competency, Mainstreaming, and Children with Serious Behavioral Disorders" (Nancy B. Meadows); "Identification of Critical Social Skills and Social Competence for Children with Behavioral Disorders" (Kristine J. Melloy); "The Social Ecology of Adolescents Receiving Special Education Services: School and Interpersonal Contexts" (Edison J. Tricket et al.); "Understanding and Defusing the Streetcorner Behaviors of Urban Black Socially Maladjusted Youth" (Thomas McIntyre); and "Ethics Instruction: A Model for Advancing Social Competence of Youth with Emotional and Learning Problems" (Pamela F. Miller and Sidney R. Miller). References accompany each paper. (DB)