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Cone, Dick; Hall, Rahla – 1976
This booklet provides ideas for a multidisciplinary storytelling course designed to train fifth grade students to act as tutors for second grade students. The various sections of the booklet contain the following: the rationale and objectives for the course, hints on planning the course, an introduction to storytelling, suggestions for teaching…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, English Instruction
Download full textFitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1975
Two studies are briefly reported here, one concerned with a method for locating high ability inner-city students, and the other dealing with a method of motivating low achieving inner-city students. Both studies drew on a population of black junior high school students, eighth and ninth graders, 14, 15, and 16 years of age. In the first study,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Black Students
Keen, Sadie S. – 1973
This report describes a pilot program set up to test the feasibility of a student out-of-school tutoring service for 4th and 5th graders as a means of providing remedial instruction for potential dropouts. For testing purposes, a small-scale 5-session program was set up, using as tutors 9th through 12th grade volunteer students, from a local…
Descriptors: After School Education, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools
Bradshaw, Charles I. – 1971
In this study, two ESEA Title I inner-city schools in the Salt Lake School District selected and trained upper-grade (grades 4, 5, and 6) students in structured tutoring techniques previously developed and proven effective by Grant V. Harrison in previous studies. Lower grade (first, second, and third grade) teachers identified the students…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Reading Programs
Liette, Eileen Evelyn – 1971
The effects of a tutor-tutee relationship on the reading achievement and achievement motivation of underachieving black male children were investigated. A group of 41 tutees and their controls as well as a group of 41 tutors and their controls, all from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, were randomly selected. All subjects were given a nonverbal IQ…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Black Students, Cross Age Teaching, Doctoral Dissertations
Dillner, Martha Harriet – 1971
The major purpose of this study was to ascertain the growth in reading skills, self-concepts, attitudes toward school, and social relationships of a selected group of senior high school remedial readers who had served as tutors in reading for junior high school remedial readers. The study lasted almost one school year. The tutors were volunteers…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement, Reading Programs
Peer reviewedLindsey, Jimmy D.; Watts, Elaine H. – Clearing House, 1979
Tutoring's academic and emotional benefits for exceptional students are outlined. This is suggested as a method for secondary schools to meet the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) and Individual Education Plan (IEP) provisions of PL 94-142. (SJL)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Students, Individualized Instruction
Smith, Linda M.; Pfeiffer, Isobel L. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1977
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Berliner, David; Casanova, Ursula – Instructor, 1988
A recent cost-benefit analysis was made of reduced class size, increased instructional time, computer-assisted instruction, and peer or cross-age tutoring. Tutoring turned out to have the greatest effect on student learning and to be the most cost effective. Implementation of a successful tutoring program is described. (MT)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cost Effectiveness
Peer reviewedMahler, Charles A. – School Psychology Review, 1986
A cross-age tutoring program designed to improve school performance of tutors (adolescents classified as emotionally disturbed) and tutees (children classified as educable mentally retarded) was replicated in an urban public school district. Results showed that both tutors and tutees improved on academic and social measures of school performance.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Children, Cross Age Teaching
Peer reviewedLawrence, Ruth – Children Today, 1976
Describes a curriculum in which Mississippi Choctaw Indian high school students work with preschoolers enrolled in a bilingual-bicultural Head Start program in order to learn about factors influencing a child's development and to prepare for parenting or careers with children. (HS)
Descriptors: American Indians, Cross Age Teaching, Curriculum Development, Educational Experience
Wright, Jan; Smink, Jay; Duckenfield, Marty – 1999
The National Dropout Prevention Center designed a project, Student Serving Students, to see if students in kindergarten through twelfth grade could help other students who were at risk of dropping out of school. Communities in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina developed a variety of ways for students to meet the needs of children at risk.…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Dropout Prevention, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Burnette, Jane – 1999
This digest summarizes research on methods of student grouping in reading instruction other than whole-class instruction and ability grouping. Peer tutoring and reciprocal-role tutoring have been demonstrated to be effective for students with learning disabilities because they are allowed to be either tutors or tutees. Cross-age tutoring has been…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Disabilities, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Inclusive Schools
Garcia, Juanita C. – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2004
The teacher wondered how her group of middle school tutors would react to reading predictable children's books to their elementary "tutees." Would they enjoy the books or would they think they were too mature to do the activities in the lesson? She wondered if the tutors would enjoy being read to as she modeled the dramatic reading of a children's…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Secondary School Students
Fleming, J. Carl – Todays Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Group Activities, Individual Instruction, Primary Education
