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Powell, Cathy – 1988
To increase parent involvement and meet the need for adult help in classrooms, a preschool director implemented a practicum in a church-owned, nondenominational preschool serving 250 children from an upper-middle-class community in the Northeast. The intervention offered a wide range of parent involvement activities, including the formation of a…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Parent Participation, Preschool Education, Private Schools
Teas, Brenda – 1989
A county (Harris County, Texas) education agency, along with Special Education Directors and Personnel Officers from the county's 24 school districts, identified problems in recruiting special education teachers and such related service personnel as psychologists, psychological associates, educational diagnosticians, speech therapists, art…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Education, Program Development, School Districts
Campbell, Charles R. – 1988
The field of Environmental Health Technology (EHT) encompasses both the equipment and the trained expertise required to utilize land, water, energy, and minerals in the service of human health and welfare. EHT technicians work in disease control, licensing bureaus, hospitals, nursing homes, hazardous waste agencies, and other health agencies. In…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development
Burris, Hermine O. – 1988
In a day care center which enrolled children between 14 months and 5 years of age, a child caregiver implemented a practicum study in order to allow children and older adults the opportunity to interact with one another for their mutual benefit. Goals were to: (1) increase children's positive attitudes toward older people; (2) seek positive…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Programs, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Buchik, Nancy T. – 1990
A program was developed to improve the physical fitness of 15 trainable mentally retarded students in a special school. Preliminary surveys of parents and teachers and observations of students indicated that the majority of students in the targeted group were physically unfit and exhibited poor attitudes about physical exercise. A daily…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Moderate Mental Retardation, Needs Assessment, Physical Fitness
Nusz, Phyllis Jane – 1986
A study was conducted to research and develop guidelines for the establishment and operation of a California community college foundation. The study involved a review of state regulations for the establishment of a non-profit foundation, a literature review, participation in two fund-raising seminars, personal interviews with foundation staff at…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Colleges, Donors, Educational Finance
Halpin, Sheila – 1994
This practicum was designed to alleviate feelings of isolation experienced by parents and extended family members of 17 primary students with severe emotional disturbance (SED). Practicum activities included biweekly educative and social support workshops for the parents and extended family members; an educative newsletter; pre-implementation and…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Disturbances, Family Involvement
Naber, Martha B. – 1994
This practicum sought to address the need for increased opportunities for prospective adoptive parents to gain introductory knowledge regarding adoption issues and processes in a rural state in the northeastern United States. A multimedia educational unit containing a 45-minute videotaped presentation and various written materials were developed…
Descriptors: Adoption, Adoptive Parents, Advertising, Check Lists
Newman, James F. – 1985
The purpose of this practicum was to determine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats surrounding the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at Dowling College (Oakdale, New York), as perceived by the Business Administration Division faculty. Faculty were surveyed to determine perceived strengths, weaknesses, opportunities…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, College Curriculum, College Faculty, College Planning
Howze, Janice Kate – 1988
A child caregiver developed a substance abuse intervention and prevention program for preschool children between 2 and 5 years of age who were at risk for substance abuse. The practicum effort resulted in a preschool substance abuse curriculum that included information on drugs, offered techniques for enhancing self-esteem, and discussed skills…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Objectives
McLane, Meredith L. – 1995
This practicum paper documents the development and distribution of a handbook for child care administrators designed to increase parent involvement. It provides a review of the literature on parent involvement in day care centers and outlines the process used to develop the 12-page handbook. The handbook includes ways in which to measure the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Criticism
Menard, Joanne – 1993
This practicum sought to combat the problem of decreasing readiness skills and overall general knowledge of entering kindergarten students, by developing and implementing an integrated parent involvement program for regular and special education classes in preschool and kindergarten. The first phase involved parents and children in a home-based…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Parent Participation
Buntin, Kathleen R. – 1993
As a practicum project, an elementary school counselor developed and implemented a parent education program centered on the use of parents as models and peer facilitators for other parents. Based upon a survey of parents' self-professed needs, the program focused on parenting skills designed to help children avoid such high-risk behaviors as…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Elementary Education, Parent Education, Parent Participation
Kieslich, Anita F. – 1999
Noting the need for parents, schools, and community members to work together to meet the needs of unsupervised adolescents during after-school hours, this practicum was designed to address those needs in one middle school. Lack of adolescent after-school supervision was documented by means of a parent interest survey distributed to parents of…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Childhood Needs, Early Adolescents, Latchkey Children
Kelly, Christine B. – 1996
In 1996, Ohio's Terra Community College undertook a project to substantiate the need for a comprehensive orientation program and to develop such a program, including a pre-college session and a college orientation class. Information was gathered through a literature review, suggesting that orientation creates a bond between the student and the…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Community Colleges, Needs Assessment, Program Development