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Dolan, Sister Mary Edward – Int Reading Assn Conf Proc Pt 1, 1968
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Evaluation, Federal Programs, Inservice Teacher Education
Scherer, Charlotte; Wygant, Nancy S. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1982
Evaluated an experimental volunteer summer program designed to increase the success rate of conditionally accepted college students. Collected information about student characteristics and aspirations and follow-up data regarding retention and academic success of student participants. Results indicated increased student understanding of goals and…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Higher Education
Peer reviewedAspinwall, Karen, Ed. – Current: The Journal of Marine Education, 1982
Provides a state-by-state account of current marine and aquatic education activities occurring throughout the United States including workshops, conferences, openings of museums and centers, new publications, and people in new positions. (DC)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Higher Education
Jensen, Cheryl – American Education, 1981
Describes the Minority Research Apprentice Program which has placed 200 minority science students in summer apprenticeships in the biomedical research laboratories of some of America's top scientists. (LRA)
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Exploration, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs
Peer reviewedCox, June – Roeper Review, 1979
The article describes five summer programs for gifted and talented students offered internationally. The programs outlined are workshops in the publication arts, a study of humanistic development; computer science, writing, and photography workshops; a language study; a historical/social study of English history; and a workshop on photography,…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Films, Gifted
Peer reviewedGlickstein, Neil – Current: The Journal of Marine Education, 1989
Described is a teacher education program organized by the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole (Massachusetts). The experience, including activities and examples of studies conducted, is discussed. Contact information for future cruises is included. (CW)
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, College Science, Earth Science, Higher Education
Peer reviewedLim, Hwa-Ja Lee; Watson, Dorothy J. – Reading Teacher, 1993
Describes a summer school English-as-a-Second-Language classroom that uses a content-rich whole language curriculum. Highlights experiences that were successful in facilitating literacy development, including reading experiences, writing experiences, talking and reading, and talking and writing. Discusses the effectiveness of the instructional…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, English (Second Language), Instructional Effectiveness, Primary Education
Alford, Evelyn – Civic Perspective, 1988
Recounts the details of a 2-week summer writing institute for students from grades 3 to 12 that incorporates peer response and revising into civic and creative writing. (MG)
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Creative Writing, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Descriptions
Peer reviewedPickell, Garfield C.; And Others – Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 1991
The University of California, Davis, medical school's intensive summer preentry program for disadvantaged minority students, which previews the first year curriculum, has incorporated a problem-based learning component to augment and prolong its effects. Objective measures of course effectiveness are unavailable; however, self-esteem, study…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Higher Education, Medical Education, Medical Students
Peer reviewedTalsma, Gary; Hersberger, Jim – Mathematics Teacher, 1990
Described is a two-week summer residential program designed for students who have been identified through one of several middle school talent searches. Discussed are the assumptions and goals, course content and pedagogy, evaluation, and materials of the program. (CW)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Students, Geometry, Learning Strategies
Pelham, Jr., William E.; Gnagy, Elizabeth M. – Reaching Today's Youth: The Community Circle of Caring Journal, 1998
Describes the Summer Treatment Program (STP), a comprehensive sports training and treatment program for students with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. STP incorporates social-skills training, academic instruction, parent training, and medication evaluation. STP has been shown to be highly successful and its principles can be transferred…
Descriptors: Athletics, Attention Deficit Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Hyperactivity
Direct linkWinbaum, Stephen – Exceptional Parent, 2006
In this article, the author talks about three special needs camps--Camp Kirk, Camp Talisman and Camp Caglewood. Camp Kirk's philosophy is to encourage their children to take risks in a structured setting, like high ropes courses, rock climbing wall, martial arts, and traditional activities like swimming, arts and craft, drama, and others. Once…
Descriptors: Resident Camp Programs, Summer Programs, Attention Deficit Disorders, Learning Disabilities
Milwaukee Public Schools, WI. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1988
This teacher's guide accompanies a program designed as an introduction to Spanish as a second language in a daily, 4-hour elementary summer school program of 4 weeks in duration. The program is described as an activity-oriented, communication-based elementary foreign language immersion program. Detailed plans are provided for the first three…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, FLES, Immersion Programs, Lesson Plans
Download full textKlinedinst, Mary Reid; Green, Katherine – 1992
Each summer since 1990, a select group of Pennsylvania high school students has taken part in the Pennsylvania Governor's School for Teaching (PGST), held at Millersville University. The school is dedicated solely to the profession of teaching and brings together sophomores and juniors who have expressed an interest in teaching as a career. This…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Demonstration Programs, Grade 10, Grade 11
Schaafsma, David – Bread Loaf News, 1993
The Dewey Center Community Writing Project is a community-based, summer writing program collaboratively designed by students, teachers, and community members in Detroit's inner-city. During the first summer of the project, fifth- through seventh-grade students, primarily from the Jeffries Homes (or "Projects") worked with seven teachers…
Descriptors: Inner City, Intermediate Grades, Interviews, Junior High Schools
