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Volpini, Joyce – 1990
An elementary school administrator designed and implemented a 12-week summer program for school-age children that provided educational, recreational, and cultural opportunities. Each week of activities centered on a specific theme. Recreational opportunities included sports activities, outdoor games, organized indoor games, free play, swimming,…
Descriptors: Day Care, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Employed Parents
Download full textTillman, Yvonne R. – 1994
This practicum was designed to address the problem of a class of 23 second-graders who were unable to make judgments and support opinions at all levels of Bloom's taxonomy. The goals of the practicum were to design and implement a Critical Thinking Skills (CTS) program that taught students to make judgments and support opinions, and that…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Critical Thinking, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Westwood, Geraldine E. – 1990
This 12-week practicum intervention was designed to enhance the listening skills of 22 kindergartners by means of a cooperative home-school developmental program. In the class, stories and poetry with listening themes were read aloud on a daily basis. Story structure was stressed. Puppets, flannel board stories, and dramatics were used. In…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Curriculum Enrichment, Developmental Programs, Home Study
Adkins, Kathleen – 1994
A survey, completed by 15 professors of English, indicated a fundamental lack of student critical thinking skills within their department, and a 90 percent discrepancy in teacher training with only 10 percent of teachers having received formal training. This paper describes a workshop designed to educate and motivate the English professors in a…
Descriptors: College English, Community Colleges, Critical Thinking, English Departments
PDF pending restorationNordgren, James L. – 1990
A music teacher used the Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation (MECC) study guide to implement a 10-week practicum intervention designed to increase sixth graders' retention of musical terminology. A total of 12 beginning band students used a computer-aided instruction program to review questions drawn from workbook materials they had…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary School Students
Amato, John Kenneth – 1994
This practicum was designed to address declining parental participation in school functions and activities at a middle school, along with a low level of parental involvement or interest in their children's education. A year-long parental involvement program was developed that encouraged parents to: (1) interact with their children and their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Discipline Problems, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
