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Integrating Mildly Handicapped Students In Industrial Arts Programs In Northeastern Iowa, William Martin Leonhart

Graduate Research Papers

The field of industrial arts is in a position to contribute considerably to the education of this group. It is this field of education that can prepare them personally, emotionally, socially, and economically to meet the demands of an adult industrial society. (Sharkey, 1964, p.17) The problem of this study ls to ascertain how industrial arts teachers can assist with the education of the educable mentally handicapped student, referred to in this paper as the Educable Mentally Handicapped (E.M.H.).

Tom Pettit To Receive Honorary Degree From University Of Northern Iowa, Uni News, April 21, 1988

Noteworthy People of UNI Documents

William T. Pettit grew up in Waterloo, and graduated from Iowa State Teachers College (ISTC) in 1953. In 1958, he received a master's degree in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. UNI granted Tom an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in 1988. His journalism career began at ISTC and the College Eye student newspaper. He had a long and honored career at NBC, winning three Emmy Awards and the Peabody Award, among other honors.

The Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science April 21-23, 1988 [Program, 100th Meeting], Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Program Contents:

Program Summary --- 5
General Session Speakers --- 9
Awards --- 13
Distinguished Fellows --- 13, 14
Distinguished Iowa Scientist --- 15
Distinguished Service --- 16
Symposia Programs --- 17
Video Film Preview --- 19
Special Meetings --- 20
Field Trip --- 20
Poster Papers --- 21
Campus Map --- Centerfold
Section Programs --- 25
Agricultural Sciences --- 26
Anthropology --- 28
Biotechnology --- 30
Botany --- 32
Chemistry, Inorganic --- 37
Chemistry, Organic --- 42
Conservation --- 44
Earth Science Teaching --- 46
Elementary Science Teaching --- 47
Engineering --- 48
Geology --- 53
Linguistics --- 58 …

Program Abstracts, 100th Session, Iowa Academy Of Science, April 21-23, 1988, Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

Presentation abstracts from the annual meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, April 11, 1988, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

Uni Schedule Of Classes, Spring 1988, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Schedule of Classes

A listing and schedule of the courses being taught as well as policies and procedures concerning attending classes at the University of Northern Iowa.

Ballast Quarterly Review, V03n3, Spring 1988, The Art Academy Of Cincinnati

Ballast Quarterly Review

A journal devoted to wit, the contents of which are intended to be insightful, amusing, or thought provoking.

Nonpareil, V72n2, Spring 1988, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

Nonpareil

Table of Contents

Wheeling and dealing ••• 2
The faces of races in education ••• 6
Molding international minds ••• 12
Campus News ••• 18
Alumni Profile/Cathy Collinge ••• 22
Alumni News Brief ••• 25
Perspective ••• 32

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, April 25, 1988, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

University Of Northern Iowa To Offer Two Tom Pettit Scholarships To Journalism Students. Uni News, February 1, 1988

Noteworthy People of UNI Documents

William T. Pettit grew up in Waterloo, and graduated from Iowa State Teachers College (ISTC) in 1953. In 1958, he received a master's degree in American Studies from the University of Minnesota. UNI granted Tom an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in 1988. His journalism career began at ISTC and the College Eye student newspaper. He had a long and honored career at NBC, winning three Emmy Awards and the Peabody Award, among other honors.

The Use Of Motivation In Academic Excellence, Donald James Blau

Graduate Research Papers

Each student in a classroom is different from his peers and what apparently motivates one child may not work with another. Their personalities are different and this plays a large role in the way each student responds to you. More and more educators are becoming aware that learning is affected by motivation and interest. Think about what motivated you as a student. If any attempt was to be made in inspiring students on their journey through the educational process, it lay with teachers in their methods and manners of encouragement and motivation.

Black Alcoholism: Etiology, Counseling And Treatment, Charissa L. Gainous

Graduate Research Papers

Alcoholism or alcohol abuse is a multi-dimensional social phenomenon that cannot be easily understood, nor can it be defined in a simplistic or straight forward manner (Roebuck & Kessler, 1972). Any attempt to comprehensively understand the nature of alcoholism among blacks must acknowledge the fact that it has multiple causes, many of which are external to the individual (Watts & Wright, 1983). Any discussion of black alcoholism must acknowledge that certain socioeconomic and environmental factors are key determinants of alcohol problems among blacks (Kane, 1981), from etiology (Helmer, 1975), to prevention (Crisp, 1980), to policy (Yabura, 1975), to treatment and …

Licensure Of Professional Mental Health Counselors In Iowa, Jeffrey Don Hasselmann

Graduate Research Papers

The issue of licensure has divided the profession of mental health counseling (Arbuckle, 1977; Cottingham, 1978; Sweeney and Witmer, 1977). Some professional mental health counselors adhere to the philosophy that licensure advances the profession (Carroll, Griggs & Halligan, 1977; Sweeney & Witmer, 1977). Opponents to licensure purport that licensing in itself will not advance the field nor will it necessarily ensure the delivery of quality psychological services (Davis, 1981; Gross, 1977, 1978; Tiedeman, 1979).

Adolescents And Stress, Bret Darnell Adams

Graduate Research Papers

Adolescents today live in a very busy, hectic world that is constantly changing. Problems such as divorce, death, abuse, violence, and accidents can have a negative effect of stress on adolescents (Omizo, Omizo, & Suzuki, 1988). Children who are under stress may become emotionally depressed, impulsive, aggressive, anti-social, self-destructive, or irritable. Herbert (1983) stated that stress may produce a variety of physical symptoms such as: increased heart rate, tenseness in the stomach, sweaty palms, headaches, loss of appetite, or insomnia.

Education Experiences For The Elderly: The Investigation Of Obstacles And Opportunities, Maggie Grosvenor Bice

Graduate Research Papers

Education at any age is considered to be a means for enhancing the quality of one's life. The researcher contends that improving the quality of life is a continuous and eternal theme, filtering through the entire life span of any hum an being. Thomas Jefferson was quoted in Ronald Gross' book The New Old as saying "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government'' (p. 259). If we can assume that education is a means for improving the quality of life, then we can sense the need …

Index To Volume 25

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

No abstract provided.

The Role Of The Principal In Gifted Education, Victoria Stephenson

Graduate Research Papers

Research on effective schools indicated that one of the necessary elements was good educational leadership. This leadership was important in every area of the educational spectrum including education of the school's talented and gifted children and youth. Prior to 1970, there was very little research which indicated that the principal was indeed an essential part of the education of the gifted. However, more recent research has indicated that the principal was indeed an integral part of that education process. The impetus which seemed to stimulate the research in this area was the recognition by parents and educators that gifted and …

Paraprofessional Programs In Higher Education: Advantages And Disadvantages, Brian K. Fegley

Graduate Research Papers

Faced with increasing enrollments and tight fiscal policies, many directors of college student services departments have found it necessary to revise and enlarge their programs. For many, this revision includes employing upper class undergraduate students and graduate students to work as paraprofessionals. Employed as an aide to professional staff members, paraprofessionals have been used to complete basic clerical duties such as typing, copying and filing, do research, or process routine departmental paperwork. Others have been employed as "peer counselors", interacting with the student population in residence halls and counseling centers. Some student workers have administered "mini programs" within a department. …

Death Curricula In The Public Schools, David Eugene Crotts

Graduate Research Papers

The main purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the benefits of implementation of death and dying curricula into our public schools. The role of the school counselor in grief counseling and implementation of death curricula will be addressed. A review of relevant literature will be used to accomplish these purposes.

1988 Reach For The Stars, Northern University High School

Malcolm Price Laboratory School Yearbooks

The student yearbook of the Northern University High School, part of the Malcolm Price Laboratory School of the University of Northern Iowa.

Childhood Obesity, Rhoda Campbell

Graduate Research Papers

Childhood obesity is a problem that is increasing (Blessing, 1986). According to Dietz, (cited in Blessing, 1986), the number of obese children between the ages of twelve and seventeen increased by 39 percent between 1963 and 1980. Obesity increased for children in the six to eleven year old range by 54 percent during this same time frame. Plimpton (1987) cited a number of studies which indicated that 25 percent of American children are obese and that 80 percent of those obese children will become obese adults. The criteria used to define obesity in various studies range from 15 percent or …

Successful Stepfamily Development: Issues And Implications For Counselors, Cheryl A. Rammelsberg

Graduate Research Papers

The traditional meaning of "family" as the biological unit of father, mother and child(ren) can no longer be assumed in today's society. There are many other types of structures functioning in our society fulfilling all of the traditional family roles and responsibilities, and an increasingly prevalent one of these is the "stepfamily". One definition of stepfamily in the literature was the complex description offered by Sager, Walker, Brown and Rodstein (1981) of "one that is created by the marriage (or living together in one domicile) of two partners, one or both of whom have been married previously and was divorced …

Ballast Quarterly Review, V03n2, Winter 1988, The Art Academy Of Cincinnati

Ballast Quarterly Review

A journal devoted to wit, the contents of which are intended to be insightful, amusing, or thought provoking.

Faculty Morale, Larry Eugene Witt

Graduate Research Papers

Faculty morale is a phenomenon that has lately been receiving more discussion and research time. Recognized as a powerful force, faculty morale remains difficult to define in precise terms. One point that has been agreed upon by educators is that faculty morale is not unidimensional. Instead faculty morale is multidimensional. A second point of agreement is that faculty morale is vital to all human organizations.

Application Of Progressive Business Management Practices To Public School Administration, Lorene Whitehouse Dykstra

Graduate Research Papers

Administrators and teachers have been rebuffed, as illiterate graduates and teachers who fall basic skills tests have led the American public to turn increasingly towards private solutions to our public education problems. As private schooling has become increasingly available, public schools have been squeezed further by shrinking budgets and the flight of some of their most capable students to those Institutions (Jordan & Webb, 1986; Nebgen, 1985; Snyder & Anderson, 1986).

Principals As Effective Leaders, Terry Eygabroad

Graduate Research Papers

The only thing constant in the world is change. An innovative principal in the 1980's must be prepared to do more than maintain the status quo. To be successful, principals will need to re-educate themselves to cope with the changing demands of their roles. They will have to become knowledgeable and skillful community leaders as well as the educational leaders of their schools (Drake and Miller, 1982). It has been said that some people are born leaders, others are trained leaders, and others have leadership thrust upon them. But in any case it is opportunity, vision, action, and followers that …

Co-Dependence: A Disease Inherent To Dysfunctional Family Systems, Janet Gehrls

Graduate Research Papers

Co-dependence is an idea that has emerged recently in the chemical dependency field especially relating to alcoholism. The term co-dependence was originally used to describe those persons whose lives were affected by involvement with a chemically dependent person (Subby and Friel, 1984). Most research prior to 1982 was centered on individual personality traits and characteristics of the :alcoholic or the alcoholic's spouse rather than looking at the relationship process or family system (Jacob and Seilhamer, 1982; Steinglass, 1982). Attention was focused on understanding and helping the alcoholic while the non-drinkers in the family, if considered at all, were thought to …

A Review Of The Literature About Incompetent Teachers, Margaret L. Jensen

Graduate Research Papers

Incompetency when referring to a teacher's classroom performance is difficult to define (Heavilin, 1980). States have not adequately defined the term, the professional organizations for teachers, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, have not taken a stand on the meaning of incompetence, and the courts have tended to steer clear of making judgments about a particular teacher's competence; therefore, the burden of defining the term "incompetence" when evaluating teachers has fallen on the shoulders of school administrators (Bridges, 1985a & b; Munnelly, 1979).

School-Public Library Cooperation, Suzanne R. Larson

Graduate Research Papers

The researcher undertook this study to discover the current status of activities, the role of communication, and the benefits that were associated with cooperation between school and public libraries. The sample for this study was those elementary library media specialists and children's librarians employed in the institutions in the 80 cities served by the Northeast Iowa Regional Library System in Waterloo. A questionnaire with a cover letter was sent directly to each of the prospective respondents. The yes-no items in the questionnaire dealt with the respondents' opinions concerning their participation in cooperative activities, and the level of communication, as well …

Nonpareil, V72n1, Winter 1988, University Of Northern Iowa Alumni Association

Nonpareil

Table of Contents:

Spinning a web ••• 2
A shot in the arm ••• 6
Winter on Wall Street ••• 12
Campus New Briefs ••• 17
Alumni Profile/Houshang Bozorgzadeh ••• 20
Alumni News Briefs ••• 23
Class Notes ••• 27
Perspective ••• 31