Because low achieving kindergarten children attending a neighborhood school in the South Area of the Dade County Public School System were experiencing difficulty during independent work periods, a practicum study was designed to improve their basic skills by providing closely supervised visual, manipulative, language, and listening activities.…

The practicum was designed to provide five inservice workshops concerned with identification and teaching strategies for regular second grade teachers with gifted children in their classes. The practicum used an interdisciplinary approach to present teaching procedures intended to be practical, cost effective, socially viable, and appropriate to…

This practicum report describes the implementation of a pilot program that used packets of learning materials to incorporate individualized instruction into a traditional curriculum in a kindergarten classroom. Objectives of the program were that 80 percent of students would demonstrate improvement in basic readiness skills, and that 90 percent of…