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Download full textPersons, Jody S. – 1994
This paper reports on a practicum that was designed to improve the behavior of at-risk youth. It targeted seventh- and eighth-grade students who attended a 12-week middle school violence prevention program which utilized a multisensory approach in conjunction with group counseling. This practicum included an educational component for parents and…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Grade 7, Grade 8, High Risk Students
James, Darlene K. – 1994
This practicum was designed to develop a transition program and social activities for sixth-graders to help ease the passage from elementary school and increase their sense of belonging in a sixth- through eighth-grade junior high school. The students were surveyed concerning their degree of self-esteem, connection to school, perception of…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Extracurricular Activities, Grade 6
Jones, Sylvester L. – 1990
In an effort to increase retention rates among nursing assistant program students, an open-entry/open-exit competency-based individualized program was implemented in 1990 at a small vocational skills center serving low-socioeconomic adult students. This change was instituted in response to a growing drop-out rate and to difficulties expressed by…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Competency Based Education
Kaplan, Brenda M. – 1994
A practicum developed and implemented a nutrition and fitness program for 90 kindergarten and first-grade students in an urban elementary school. The program was designed to make parents, teachers, and students more aware of nutrition and physical fitness requirements for proper growth and development. The 33-week program included: (1) pretest…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Child Health, Cooking Instruction
Aitken, Claudia Jean – 1995
This practicum set up a classroom-based model for peer mediation in grades 3 and 4. During the project's implementation, the school psychologist delivered, individually to each of 6 different third and fourth-grade classrooms, 8 weeks of classroom instruction on conflict resolution. When all 6 classes were familiar with conflict resolution…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Change Strategies, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Foreman, Deborah – 1994
Project REAL (Relationship skills, Education on violence prevention, Academics, Leadership and decision-making skills) was a practicum designed to increase the academic achievement of middle school students exposed to domestic violence. Eleven students and their parents participated in a 12-week interpersonal-cognitive counseling group and its…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Art Therapy, Communication Skills, Counseling Services
