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Strachan, Pamela – 1990
An experienced kindergarten teacher implemented a 10-week practicum intervention designed to improve the classroom management skills of 9 kindergarten teacher aides. In-service training for participants included planned workshops, observations, team activities, coaching, and evaluation. Each participant concentrated on a specific skill or area of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Intervention, Job Training, Kindergarten
Cross, Alice Frazeur – 1994
This practicum aimed to facilitate development and implementation of recommended practices by an early childhood special education team working with a University Affiliated Program (UAP). A site development project was being developed in response to the recognition by UAP center staff that their activities were not sufficient in helping early…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention, Educational Methods
Webb, Nina W. – 1988
An elementary school teacher implemented a practicum designed to: (1) provide a curriculum for a before and after school day care program serving primary school students; and (2) solve problems encountered in the implementation of a pilot school-age child care program. A review of the literature indicated that few curriculums had been developed…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement, Extended School Day
Reynolds, Gail – 1995
The Parent-Infant Care Center, a component of the School Based Youth Services program, was designed to enable parenting students who needed child care support to continue attending school. This practicum project devised an intervention at the Center to address teen parents' lack of knowledge, experience, and skills needed to appropriately care for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Births to Single Women, Child Development, Child Rearing
Richardson, Donald M. – 1988
An elementary school principal implemented a practicum to improve school-home communication at a school where administrators believed that a history of poor communication between parents and teachers negatively influenced the school's academic and parent involvement programs. Specific practicum goals were to improve: (1) school-home communication…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Improvement Programs
Christina, Barbara – 1993
This practicum involved the design and implementation of inservice training sessions for educators, to reduce the incidence of limited English proficient (LEP) pupils being inappropriately referred for possible special education placement. The inservice sessions covered the difference between a linguistic diversity and a handicap, prereferral…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Hispanic Americans
Ferrentino, Michael P. – 1992
This practicum was designed to increase nurturing relationships between primary caregivers and infants prenatally exposed to cocaine. Goals were to increase the general emotional well-being of the caregivers within the family unit, to increase the interpersonal competence of the caregivers in relation to the care receiving infants, and to increase…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Cocaine