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Compton, Rod – 1982
Clinical experiences offered to students preparing to become athletic trainers at East Carolina University (North Carolina) are diverse and multiple. The program acquaints students with actual medical practices in sports medicine by allowing them to observe experienced trainers and doctors at work as well as providing opportunities for practical…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Athletes, Athletic Coaches, Clinical Experience
Bizzaro, Patrick – 1976
The developmental writing program at Northern Virginia Community College, Manassas Campus, deals with three concerns common to developmental writing teachers at two-year colleges. First, since most developmental writing teachers are unable to empathize with, or understand, their students, the Manassas program begins with exercises which acquaint…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, College Freshmen, Community Colleges, English Instruction
FallCreek, Stephanie, Ed.; Stam, Sue Bailey, Ed. – 1982
This monograph discusses the Wallingford Wellness Project, a 3-year Administration on Aging model project designed to develop, demonstrate, and evaluate the effectiveness of health promotion and training with older adults. (The program in the Wallingford Senior Center offered classes focusing on exercise, nutrition, stress management, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Assertiveness, Environmental Education
Prince George's County Public Schools, Upper Marlboro, MD. – 1978
The information and activities in this guide are offered to teachers who want to assist junior high school students in developing test taking skills. The introductory sections discuss test wisdom, give advice to teachers about testing, provide tips to students on test taking skills, offer practice sheets on completing test forms, and define…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Grade 7, Grade 9, Junior High Schools
Riggs, Maida L.; And Others – 1981
This booklet is designed for use by physical education teachers of children from preschool to the age of eight. The effects of physical activity on health, appearance, achievement, psycho-social development, aesthetic awareness, and survival skills are considered. The emphasis is on discovering how one moves and enjoys movement during the younger…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education, Exercise Physiology, Human Body
Goodman, Jess A., Jr. – 1978
Reading, writing, speech assignments for special education classes, English as a second language and many other classroom projects can be taught through the involvement created by Readers Theatre. Readers Theatre is the presentation of dialogue-type material in play form. The actors hold the script as they move through it and a narrator's voice…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Creative Dramatics, Dialogs (Language)
1980
The purpose of this guide was to unify physical education programs in several school districts through the development of common objectives. Curricular content was developed according to levels of learning in attitudes, concepts, and skills, recognizing skills in a sequential developmental and spiral arrangement. Nine areas of motor skill…
Descriptors: Athletics, Elementary Secondary Education, Exercise, Games
Brooks, Kent – 1976
One of 33 self-paced instructional modules for training industry services leaders to provide guidance in the performance of manpower services by public agencies to new and expanding private industry, this module contains three sequential learning activities on writing news articles about industry training activities. (Three of the other modules…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Behavioral Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests, Individualized Programs
Stanford, Gene; And Others – 1979
This collection of 27 articles written by educators suggests to classroom teachers creative ways of teaching writing well even when confronted with unreasonably large classes. The articles are presented under six main headings: ungraded writing, teacher involvement--not evaluation, student self-editing, practice with parts, focused feedback, and…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Editing, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
Stenstrom, Anna-Brita – 1975
Certain categories of grammatical errors made by 42 teacher trainees at Lund University in Sweden are described and explained. Each student was asked to write two summaries in English, one an account of a book that appeared on a list of books for extensive reading and the other an account of a 40-minute tape recording in the language laboratory,…
Descriptors: College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Fallon, Dennis J., Ed. – 1978
The nature, role, and scope of the dance in the United States is the subject of this collection of articles. The philosophical, historical, socio-cultural, and educational perspectives of dance are considered in the first four chapters. The following five chapters focus primarily on considerations that should improve teaching techniques and…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creative Expression, Dance, Dance Therapy
HOOK, J.N. – 1963
THIS BOOK IS INTENDED FOR USE WITH STUDENTS WHO CAN PROFIT FROM INSTRUCTION IN VIGOROUS AND COLORFUL WRITING. EMPHASIS IS PLACED UPON SHOWING THE STUDENT THAT HIS OWN EXPERIENCE IS RICHER THAN HE MAY SUPPOSE AND UPON HELPING HIM TO DRAW FROM IT. THE FIRST SECTION OF THE BOOK CONSIDERS THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF SUBJECT, THEME, OBSERVATION, SENSORY…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Biographies, Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing
Hawes, Lorna; Richards, Barbara – 1977
The Garrison approach to teaching composition has been successfully adapted to second language writing instruction. This approach is based on three principles: individualization, instant feedback, and inductive learning. First, the individualized tutorial approach is used because each student has different needs. Secondly, the method demands that…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Individual Instruction
Warren, Robert P., Jr. – Connecticut English Journal, 1969
Fifty disadvantaged urban boys ranging from ages 11 to 16 participated in a 6-week summer writing workshop patterned on the ideas of James Moffett, Donald Murray, and John Dixon. The students were divided into groups of five, were trained in methods of group discussion (aided by video tapes to prepare them for profitable analysis of each others'…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Descriptive Writing, Disadvantaged Youth, Experimental Programs
Estrin, Herman A. – 1968
Students' verbatim comments reflect the enthusiasm toward writing which is generated by the course. The author discusses the course design, citing the texts used, including readings from master, technical report writers. Description of the curriculum leads progressively from textual analysis through the final phase in which students are urged to…
Descriptors: Colleges, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Course Organization
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