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Nanmathi Manian; Wendy McColskey; Kim Benton; Noah Lipshie – National Comprehensive Center, 2021
School communities in both urban and rural settings need trauma-informed (TI) supports; however, the adversities experienced and access to student supports may be unique to rural school communities. In addition, the contextual challenges experienced by rural schools and communities, as well as the strengths that can be drawn from them, will…
Descriptors: Trauma, Rural Schools, Child Development, School Districts
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Support Programs. – 1987
This document is designed to assist administrators and teachers in developing high quality pre-kindergarten programs which comply with Chapter 1 regulations and guidelines. Information is provided on administration, design, and implementation of programs for disadvantaged young children, as well as on appropriate instructional practices for…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Program Administration
Paulson, Lucy Hart; van den Pol, Rick – 1998
The "Good Talking Words" program aims to help children develop and demonstrate the social communication skills that are vital to school and life success. It uses an active, direct instructional approach for preschool and kindergarten students that uses language experiences to teach specific, prosocial behaviors that will help children…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Early Childhood Education, Instructional Materials, Interpersonal Competence
Fuller, Jane A. – 1990
A prekindergarten teacher working in a private elementary day school developed and implemented a prosocial behavior program designed to improve the social behavior of prekindergarten students. The program focused on decreasing the incidence of 10 behaviors: (1) pouting; (2) hitting; (3) yelling indoors; (4) interrupting; (5) whining; (6) ignoring…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Private Schools
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Rosner, Jerome; Gruber, Joy – Journal of Optometric Education, 1985
A pediatric optometry clinic teaches students how to provide appropriate services for school-aged children who present, because of reduced visual acuity, unstable binocularity and perceptual skill disorders, and teaches about half the students the fundamentals of care of preschool children and strabismics. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Clinics, Higher Education, Optometry
Hanrahan, Marian, Ed.; Prinsen, Bert, Ed. – 1998
This booklet is about the Mothers Inform Mothers program (MIM), a network of local early childhood care and development support programs in five provinces in The Netherlands. These programs are carried out in eight different towns (two large, four medium, and two small) in deprived areas. A short overview of the theoretical basis for the program…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Family Programs, Foreign Countries, Mothers
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Friedman, Jay; Koeppel, Janis – Young Children, 1990
Discusses development and implementation of a writing workshop that combined prekindergarteners' language development with first graders' writing experiences. (BB)
Descriptors: Grade 1, Language Acquisition, Multigraded Classes, Peer Relationship
Winer, Roger T. – 1990
Over an 8-month period, a preschool teacher's aide designed and implemented a practicum study intended to improve the social skills of preschoolers in a private day care center. Lesson plans for teaching seven social skills through problem solving were created. Skills were related to entering and exiting activities without disrupting them;…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Day Care, Interpersonal Competence, Lesson Plans
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Schine, Joan; Campbell, Patricia – Young Children, 1989
Describes the development of the Early Adolescent/Child Care Helper Program, which is designed to meet the needs of both young adolescents and preschool children. (BB)
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Helping Relationship, Junior High School Students
Yagi, Kan – 1984
This year-end evaluation report concludes the twelfth year of operation of the Chapter I Early Childhood Education (Preschool) Program in Portland, Oregon, public schools. The purpose of the preschool program is to provide educationally disadvantaged children with the experiences needed to ameliorate their disadvantages. The report is prepared…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
Yeatts, Karol L. – 1990
During an 8-month period, a primary school teacher designed and implemented a practicum study intended to socialize children in prekindergarten through 3rd-grade classes to be cooperative, responsible, and achieving individuals. Primary goals of the practicum were to develop a nurturing affective environment, enhance character development,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students, Emotional Development
Ho, Rose – 2003
The primary objective of the action research chronicled (in English and Chinese) in this book was to shift the teaching method used by preschool teachers in Hong Kong from a teacher-directed mode by training them to use the Project Approach. The secondary objective was to measure children's achievement while using the Project Approach, focusing on…
Descriptors: Action Research, Foreign Countries, Multilingual Materials, Preschool Children
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Howarth, Mary – Young Children, 1989
Provides guidelines and examples of ways preschool teachers can use fairy tales to help children understand their lives. (BB)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Dramatic Play, Fairy Tales, Preschool Children
O'Brien, Robert W.; D'Elio, Mary Ann; Vaden-Kiernan, Michael; Magee, Candice; Younoszai, Tina; Keane, Michael J.; Connell, David C.; Hailey, Linda – 2002
Recognizing that families have played an essential role in the Head Start philosophy since the program's inception, the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) is an effort to develop a descriptive profile of families participating in the Head Start program and services, as well as to develop, test, and refine Program Performance…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Diversity (Student), Family Characteristics
Diaz, Alicia; And Others – 1994
The approach to English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction for preschool children at Instituto Crandon, a private elementary-secondary school in Uruguay is described. First, characteristics of Uruguay and its educational system are outlined, stressing the advantages of temperate physical environment and high literacy rate. Then background…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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