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Ana Aidé Cruz Grünebaum; Kevin Renato Rojas Sandoval; Sophia Verónica Maldonado Bode; Amber Gove; Jennifer Elizabeth Johnson Oliva – RTI International, 2025
The purpose of this article is to describe the learnings of primary school teachers in rural Guatemala as a result of an action research experience. This experience took place in the context of the "Basic Education Quality and Transitions" activity, or BEQT, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Rural Areas
Hicksville Public Schools, NY. – 1981
Intended as a guide for initial program implementation, the document presents an overview on programing for gifted and talented students. Chapter 1 reviews underlying philosophy and the rationale for program development. Goals and objectives are stated along with a summary of teaching techniques and approaches for elementary and secondary…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support, Gifted
Wilson, Steven F. – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2008
Teachers may be the most important element of an effective school, but does that mean that K-12 improvement must wait on the ability of schools or systems to recruit, nurture, and retain outstanding teachers? Such a strategy implies that widespread excellence hinges on the ability of publicly funded school systems to attract more than 3.3 million…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Charter Schools, School Culture, Teacher Recruitment
Ellington, Lucien – 1984
Background information and a classroom lesson to help secondary social studies teachers teach about Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) are provided. The first part of the paper discusses the following concerning AFDC: what it is, eligibility and funding, clients, economic aspects, and myths. Structural criticisms that have been made by…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Economic Factors, Economics Education, Eligibility
Miller, Sandra W.; Williams, Jamie C. – 1987
This guide is intended for use in teaching a course in entrepreneurship that is geared toward high school seniors. Specifically, the materials included in the guide have been designed to be incorporated into business and office education and marketing education courses. The guide consists of a list of the tasks necessary for a person to be…
Descriptors: Accounting, Behavioral Objectives, Bookkeeping, Business Education
Pragma Corp., Falls Church, VA. – 1986
This manual is intended to assist Peace Corps trainers in providing inservice technical training in small enterprise development. The following topics are covered: expectations and sharing of resources, problem analysis as a part of project identification, procedures in setting goals and objectives, steps in identifying project resources, the…
Descriptors: Accounting, Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Budgeting
Bourque, Janet; And Others – 1983
This curriculum is designed to serve as a guide for use by teachers conducting a course in crafts sewing as a business. Covered in the individual units of the course are the following topics: business skills (law, finance, insurance, and computer use); psychology and ethics (the effect of business on home and family, and ethical and effective…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Skills, Craft Workers, Entrepreneurship
Bollom, Marv – 1980
Designed as a supplement to an existing technical trade or industrial course, this curriculum is a guide for instructors to teach small business management in vocational education classes. It is planned around approximately 30 hours of instruction. Each of the eight instructional units includes the following parts: objectives, transition of units…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Bookkeeping, Business, Business Administration
Pragma Corp., Falls Church, VA. – 1986
This manual is intended to assist Peace Corps trainers in providing preservice technical training in small enterprise development. The manual includes a total of 40 training sessions divided among 10 learning modules. The following topics are covered: the main principles of small enterprise development; Peace Corps volunteers as small enterprise…
Descriptors: Accounting, Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Budgeting
Jarzab, Jacquelyn L. – 1987
This practicum project was designed to educate developmentally delayed students, parents, and educators concerning the availability of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) through application to the Social Security Administration. Results of a survey of school staff and parents showed a need for information dissemination concerning SSI funds. The…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Developmental Disabilities, Eligibility, Federal Aid
Elardo, Richard, Ed.; Pagan, Betty, Ed. – 1976
This second edition contains articles on (1) infant day care, (2) day care as a way to extend parental support systems, (3) meeting developmental needs of infants, (4) ecology of day care, (5) ecology of infant day care, (6) quality care for infants, (7) the daily schedule, (8) precautions in establishing infant day care, (9) teaching--learning…
Descriptors: Child Development, Class Organization, Day Care, Disadvantaged Youth
Parham, J. D.; And Others – 1982
This volume consists of a background discussion, coordinator's manual, and training manual dealing with developing programs for the in-home respite care (IHRC) of the developmentally disabled. Addressed in the background information unit are the nature of developmental disabilities; program variables, planning, and funding; and practical…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Behavior Modification, Developmental Disabilities, Family Programs
Ashmore, M. Catherine; Pritz, Sandra G. – 1983
This teaching guide is designed for use in implementing the first level of a comprehensive entrepreneurship curriculum entitled: A Program for Acquiring Competence in Entrepreneurship (PACE). Designed for use with secondary students, the first level of PACE consists of 18 lessons that introduce students to the concepts involved in entrepreneurship…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Business, Business Administration, Business Education