School and educational psychologists: Creating new service models

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