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Jenkins, Patsy S. – 1990
This practicum intervention was designed to increase the academic success of potentially at-risk first graders and train teachers to identify such students. Objectives were to: (1) improve teachers' ability to accurately identify first graders at risk for failing first grade; (2) help parents become knowledgeable about working with at-risk…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Early Identification, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary School Students
Wessel, Karen E. – 1988
A 10-week practicum intervention was designed to reduce deficiencies in 10 kindergarten children in southwest Florida with poor fine motor skills. The intervention consisted of daily instruction and weekly activity tests. Activities included drawing, tracing, cutting with scissors, pasting, molding with clay, various games, lacing, weaving, and…
Descriptors: Eye Hand Coordination, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Learning Activities
Download full textTillman, Yvonne R. – 1994
This practicum was designed to address the problem of a class of 23 second-graders who were unable to make judgments and support opinions at all levels of Bloom's taxonomy. The goals of the practicum were to design and implement a Critical Thinking Skills (CTS) program that taught students to make judgments and support opinions, and that…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Critical Thinking, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Losey, David E. – 1986
Concern at an elementary school that the level of successful first grade readiness for high risk kindergarten children was 62 percent, while the level of success for non-risk kindergartners was 100 percent, prompted a program for improving the readiness skills of high-risk kindergarten students described in this report. Chapter one describes Stout…
Descriptors: Attendance, Cross Age Teaching, Grade 1, High Risk Students
Westwood, Geraldine E. – 1990
This 12-week practicum intervention was designed to enhance the listening skills of 22 kindergartners by means of a cooperative home-school developmental program. In the class, stories and poetry with listening themes were read aloud on a daily basis. Story structure was stressed. Puppets, flannel board stories, and dramatics were used. In…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Curriculum Enrichment, Developmental Programs, Home Study
Fulton, Mona Layne – 1990
A primary grades specialist implemented a 10-week practicum intervention designed to increase third graders' social skills by training their teachers in cooperative learning techniques and providing cooperatively structured lessons. Eight skills were addressed; these included the skills of accepting peers' ideas for group activities, completing…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Guidelines
Landry, Maureen D. – 1990
A school situation was studied in which students of English as a Second Language (ESL) were not developing English communicative competence because ESL students were segregated from fluent English-speaking (FES) students. ESL students were having difficulties with English reading, writing, and math concepts. In response to this situation a program…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Educational Strategies, English (Second Language)
