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Download full textMaryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 2003
As part of efforts to improve services for children from birth to age five, the Maryland Joint Committee on Children, Youth, and Families charged the State Department of Education with identifying and implementing, by school year 2000-01, an early childhood assessment system that would provide baseline information on children entering…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Health, Comparative Analysis, Counties
Society for Developmental Education, Peterborough, NH. – 1996
Designed to help K-6 educators create child-centered classrooms in which all children can learn and succeed, this resource book contains article reprints, handouts, and reproducible pages pertaining to effective instruction. The book is organized into six subject areas: (1) learning/school readiness and kindergarten (including school improvement,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Improvement, Educational Practices, Elementary Education
Peng, Samuel S.; Wright, DeeAnn – 1993
An explanation of why Asian American students perform better than others in school may lie in the nature of the learning programs they receive at home. The purpose of this paper is to define such programs that account for most of the differences in academic achievement among racial/ethnic groups. Data were used from the National Education…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian American Students, Asian Americans, Comparative Analysis
Kuy, Kathy; Thomas, Bob – 1985
This guide assumes a basic familiarity with some principles, techniques, activities, materials, and lesson planning strategies for teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) to adults. The approaches, techniques, ideas, resources, and information in the guide are designed to provide guidance for the teaching of literacy to adult students. After…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language)
Mitsakos, Charles L. – 1976
Five units are designed to assist kindergarten teachers in developing and implementing social studies programs which focus on introducing children to the world, its resources, and its peoples. Designed as a readiness program to help prepare kindergarten children for the primary grade social studies program, these units identify instructional…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Guides, Early Childhood Education, Educational Objectives
PDF pending restorationConnecticut Staff Development Cooperative, Hamden. – 1977
This is one of a series of curriculum guides designed to assist bilingual teachers to provide a coordinated program of studies for students in the Connecticut Migratory Children's Program and for any other students whose native language is Spanish. The overall focus of the curriculum guides in the series is on Puerto Rican history and culture. The…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Curriculum Guides, Educational Media
Trites, R. L.; Price, M. A. – 1977
A two-year study of "Learning Disabilities Found in Association with French Immersion Programming" indicated that children who encounter difficulty in primary French immersion programs may have a specific learning disability characterized by a maturational lag in the temporal lobe regions of the brain. In addition, it was found that…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Educational Research, Failure
Hawisher, Margaret F. – 1979
An annotated bibliography on minimum competency testing is arranged by subtopics: overview; basic skills; compensatory education; competencies; cost effectiveness; curriculum; district programs; graduation requirements; handicapped students; legal aspects; readiness; reading; writing; state programs; teacher education; tests; math; and testing.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills, Competency Based Teacher Education
Henderson, Ronald W.; And Others – 1972
The history and accomplishments of the Arizona Center for Early Childhood Education from its founding in 1966, as a component of the National Laboratory on Early Childhood Education, to its reorganization in 1972, as the Arizona Center for Educational Research and Development, are presented. The Arizona Center originated with a commitment to the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cultural Pluralism, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 2002
As part of its efforts to improve services for children, birth to age five, the Maryland Joint Committee on Children, Youth, and Families charged the State Department of Education with identifying and implementing, by school year 2000-01, an early childhood assessment system that provides baseline information on children entering kindergarten.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Health, Childrens Art, Comparative Analysis
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton, NJ. – 1990
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has proposed a 10-year campaign to enable the country to meet the national education goal of having every child start school ready to learn. The campaign has a 7-step agenda. First, every child must have a healthy birth, and be well-nourished and well-protected in the early years of life. The…
Descriptors: Child Health, Childrens Television, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Long, Huey B.; And Others – 1989
This book contains the following collection of papers: "Self-Directed Learning: Emerging Theory and Practice" (Long); "Self-Directed Orientation toward Learning: A Learning Style" (Bonham); "Self-Direction and Problem Solving: Theory and Method" (Peters); "Facilitating Self-Directed Learning: Not a Contradiction…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Cognitive Style
Shill, James F.; And Others – 1978
A project was developed to (1) utilize a steering committee for project planning, review, and evaluation; (2) catalog, review, and analyze systems and studies that impact on identification/selection of mentally handicapped and slow learners for vocational programs; (3) design tests involving vocational skill prediction for use with mentally…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Annotated Bibliographies, Auto Mechanics
KOEHLER, LAWRENCE E. – 1967
ADULT BASIC EDUCATION ENCOMPASSES FOUR STAGES--(1) INTRODUCTORY, FOR THE ILLITERATE WHO IS LEARNING TO READ BUT WHO MUST ALSO LEARN TO LISTEN AND COMMUNICATE, (2) ELEMENTARY, FOR THOSE WITH A FOUNDATION IN COMMUNICATION SKILLS WHO MUST DEVELOP VOCABULARY AND SOCIAL COMPETENCIES AND EXPLORE OCCUPATIONAL INTERESTS, (3) INTERMEDIATE, WITH EMPHASIS ON…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrator Qualifications, Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning
University City School District, MO. – 1969
A 30-minute screening battery of tests and subtests selected from the complete 90-minute battery used in USOE Prekindergarten-Kindergarten research plus three locally developed instruments were identified as the most satisfactory single measures of cognitive, motor, auditory, visual, visual-motor coordination, and language development to provide…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Basic Skills, Behavior Rating Scales, Cognitive Development
