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A Gifted Education Inservice Program for Regular Classroom Teachers.
Lethbridge, Diane L. – 1986
A teacher of gifted children implemented a 10-week practicum intervention designed to improve regular classroom teachers' knowledge, attitudes, and skills concerning the education of gifted elementary school students. The intervention was designed to enable participants to identify characteristics and needs of gifted children, develop positive…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Gifted, Identification
A Program for the Development of Reading Readiness Skills for Kindergarten Students Using a Cross-Age Reading Partner, Other Teacher, and Technology.
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Trimble, W. Jean – 1996
This practicum project developed and implemented a program to teach young children reading readiness skills before they entered first grade. A target group of 20 students ranging in age from 4 to 6 years old in an elementary school kindergarten class was established for the program. During the 12-week implementation, the target group participated…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten Children, Primary Education
Increasing Knowledge and Assessment of Foster Care Children through In-Service Training for Elementary School Educators.
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Cormier, Gladys M. – 1994
This practicum sought to provide elementary school teachers with the skills and knowledge needed to teach students residing in foster care. The three specific goals of the practicum were: (1) to have all 30 of the teacher participants use teaching strategies appropriate to the education of foster care children; (2) to have at least 25 of the 30…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
The Development and Implementation of a Two-Year Mathematics Laboratory Program for Ninth Grade Low Achievers. A Two-Year Individual Practicum.
Cohen, James A. – 1979
The purpose of this study was to develop and implement a two-year mathematics laboratory program for ninth-grade low achievers. The laboratory program was designed to raise the mathematics skills of a selected group of low-achieving ninth graders at Washington High School, a rural urban school in the South Bend Community School Corporation, South…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Grade 9
Using Higher Order Cognitive Questions in the Primary Classroom To Improve Comprehension.
Coolidge, Susan W. – 1989
A teaching team leader and second grade teacher designed and implemented a 10-week practicum intervention meant to improve the inferential comprehension of 105 second graders whose reading scores on the Ginn Mastery Tests revealed a gap between inferential and literal comprehension. It was reasoned that the gap would decrease if teachers were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Inferences
Improving English Language Competency Among ESL Second Grade Children Through a Socially Interactive Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Program.
Landry, Maureen D. – 1990
A school situation was studied in which students of English as a Second Language (ESL) were not developing English communicative competence because ESL students were segregated from fluent English-speaking (FES) students. ESL students were having difficulties with English reading, writing, and math concepts. In response to this situation a program…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Educational Strategies, English (Second Language)