A four-session training workshop was conducted by Columbia College for paraprofessionals who are or plan to be engaged in rape-crisis intervention counseling. Medical aspects and treatment of rape victims were discussed along with police procedures and reports required for subsequent legal action. Workshop participants were instructed in selected…

Effects of assignment to a regular classroom, to a resource room, or to a remedial reading group were examined in a study of gains in reading achievement of 49 elementary school boys. Measures used included the Slosson Intelligence Test, the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, the Primary Mental Abilities Vocabulary subtest, and the…

The five articles in this journal are related to the use of traditional materials in elementary and secondary schools in Illinois. Specific topics discussed include folk literature in secondary schools, traditional songs in elementary schools, the most frequently taught literary works (a survey of Illinois secondary schools), an approach to the…

Presented is the evaluation report on 28 projects serving seven different classes of handicapped children and their parents in Oregon which were funded under Title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Brief sections cover the criteria for establishing funding priorities and the evaluation plan, results and discussion of the 1974-75…

This paper consists of observations on a China tour to nursery schools, children's hospitals, primary schools, a high school, a teacher training institute, after-school children's centers and a school for the deaf. Twenty American early childhood education specialists participated in the tour, which included visits to five cities and to rural…

Guided design, an educational strategy based on the conviction that students are educated better by working through an ascending order of well-designed problems than by passively accumulating knowledge, employs small groups of students attacking open-ended problems. This paper describes guided design--its operation and advantages in the…

This practicum report describes the development and implementation of a teacher evaluation system at Eisenhower Elementary School in Pinellas County, Florida. The evaluation system developed was designed to address the goals of team teaching and individualized instruction. The system is intended to evaluate teacher performance in three areas,…

The attempt to unite theory and practice in the education of English teachers has taken many forms: courses in which theoreticians attempt to illuminate the practice of professional teachers or student teachers; situations in which teacher-education faculty cooperate with teachers, student teachers, and the community, in order to make programs…

Arguments for and against the use of an oral examination as part of the evaluation process are reviewed and found to rely on the experience of practitioners rather than on empirical research. Several alternatives to the traditional oral examination are discussed as ways to increase the validity of educational evaluations. (AA)

This report describes a practicum project that developed an evaluation program for an elementary school principal and then attempted to assess the effectiveness of that program. In developing the evaluation program, it was necessary to satisfy the guidelines established by the state of Connecticut, as well as the needs of the local board of…

An effort must be made in the field of phonetics to attract and retain the best students. With this goal in mind, teachers of phonetics must plan their programs with great care. Proper sequencing of the initial presentation in the teaching of transcription is essential. The most important consideration is that the student should be able to grasp…

A study compared pupil reactions to instruction in arithmetic by conventional methods and by programed instruction supplemented by teacher-supervised small group instruction. Subjects were 7th graders from two classes in Malmo, Sweden. Pre- and posttests and bimonthly observations were used to monitor arithmetic achievement, reading ability,…

This paper describes and illustrates an approach to reading which combines the language experience approach (LEA) and imaginative play. The LEA and the components of the lesson are briefly reviewed. Imaginative play and its descriptive components are identified and explained. The procedure for combining the two elements is roughly as follows: The…

The results of this study show that an experimental training program for graduate teacher assistants (TAs) affected the observable teaching behavior of the participants in two respects--(1) participants made significantly greater use of instructional objectives and (2) they engaged in significantly more student-centered teaching. The subjects for…

This paper advocates the use of "intrinsic" activities, such as the language experience approach and individualized reading, to teach beginning reading. Unlike "extrinsic" approaches, which depend on texts or other external motivators to stimulate learning, intrinsic methods exploit the internal desire of the child to acquire knowledge.…