School and Educational Psychologists

Abstract

The authors discuss the delivery of psychological and instructional services to students with special needs and also emerging strategies for providing ancillary psychological services, teaching students, assessing their learning, and managing their behavior. Among these emerging approaches to instruction and the delivery of psychological services are (a) "indirect" delivery of psychological services via consultation versus more labor-intensive "direct" intervention; (b) the development of instructional strategies based on new views of learning and cognition; (c) increased emphasis on cooperative arrangements in classrooms; (d) the use of authentic assessment procedures; and (e) peer mediation and other democratic structures that are designed to reduce students' misconduct and promote civility.