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Oregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. – 1975
The Senior Aide Volunteer Educator (SAVE) project in Tigard School District 23J, Tigard, Oregon, was initiated in 1971 under ESEA Title III funding to provide additional instruction to selected students from the first six grades in the areas of reading, mathematics, and elementary science. Examples from this project are often cited, but this…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Elementary Education, Older Adults, Program Content
Carter, Athelene P. – 1980
Project IRIS (Improving Reading Instruction School-Wide) is one school district's effort to improve reading instruction. The project's first three years have produced median reading gains of one year or more per student per year. Although the most important aspect of Project IRIS is school-wide commitment to improving reading instruction, other…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Elementary Education, Guidelines, Program Content
RMC Research Corp., Denver, CO. – 1990
This guide presents the components and implementation phases of the Technical Assistance Center's Chapter 1 Program Improvement Process. The goal of this process is to improve the achievement of educationally disadvantaged students. The following components are discussed: (1) teamwork; (2) informed decision-making; (3) vision setting; (4) research…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives, Educationally Disadvantaged
HARTSELL, O.M. – 1963
CONCERNED WITH THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAM, THIS BOOKLET CONSISTS OF TWO PRINCIPAL SECTIONS. PART ONE CONTAINS (1) A STATEMENT OF THE BASIC ELEMENTS REQUISITE TO AN EFFECTIVE PROGRAM, (2) A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF TEACHERS, SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, AND MUSIC SUPERVISORS IN THE PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING OF…
Descriptors: Educational Equipment, Elementary Education, Music Activities, Music Education
Sweeney, Marianne; And Others – 1982
This unit's purpose is to teach elementary students responsibility toward their pets by examining laws related to owners' responsibilities, medical care, and items which can be purchased for pets. The project, intended to cover 15 class days, provides teaching concepts and resources and presents each lesson in terms of a problem. Lessons include…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Course Content, Elementary Education, Ethical Instruction
Royal Oak City School District, MI. – 1974
The implementation guide is for the Learning Experiences in Technology Project (Project LET), in which teachers utilize the tools, materials, and processes of technology in relating traditional studies in a more concrete manner to the development of career awareness in grades K-6. Learning by doing is the theme ofthe project which seeks to improve…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Awareness, Career Education, Community Involvement
New York State Education Dept. , Albany. Bureau of Mass Communications. – 1975
The goal of Vegetable Soup, a television series for children, is to help counter the negative, destructive effects of racial prejudice and racial isolation and to reinforce and dramatize the positive, life enhancing value of human diversity in entertaining and affective presentations that children can understand and relate to. This teaching guide…
Descriptors: Bias, Career Education, Children, Childrens Television
Osborn, Jean; Stein, Marcy – 1985
Observational studies of elementary school classrooms have indicated that basal reading programs (BRPs) influence strongly both how children are taught to read and what they read. BRPs are developed by authors working in varying degrees of involvement with the editors of educational publishing companies. Classroom observation literature and…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Class Activities, Elementary Education, Observation