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Innes, Ruth S. – 1990
A licensed counselor working in a privately owned mental health facility implemented a practicum study designed to improve the parenting skills and quality of family communication in families with children between 3 and 14 years of age. Practicum goals were to: (1) give parents information that would improve their parenting skills; and (2)…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Communication Skills, Family Problems, Instructional Development
Patterson, Joan S. – 1979
A model program was designed and implemented to effectively develop and maintain communication skills in the children of an urban K-6 school. The goals of the program were to reverse a trend in under-achievement in five academic areas, to identify and develop potential in communication skills in two targeted groups of children, to create staff…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
Korn, Jeanne M. – 1990
An associate director of an independent preschool and elementary school developed and implemented a practicum intervention designed to improve five inexperienced teachers' ability to conduct parent-teacher conferences. Through self-evaluation, teachers identified skills they needed to improve. Intervention focused on preconference planning…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Faculty Development
de la Cruz, Beverly Metro – 1989
A kindergarten teacher designed and implemented a practicum for increasing the oral language competence of 20 kindergartners in an inner-city public school. Goals were to improve children's receptive and expressive language abilities, social skills, and mastery of kindergarten curriculum objectives, and to increase parent involvement. A whole…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Development, Inner City
Coakley, Barbara F. – 1991
This report discusses the implementation of integrated intervention strategies to improve the classroom behavior of 30 third-grade students. Students' disruptive behavior was identified from two classroom observations, teacher questionnaires, and interviews with the school counselor. Objectives projected for the intervention were that students…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution, Discipline
Download full textPurcell, Nancy Mari – 1993
This practicum developed a comprehensive Individual Transition Plan (ITP) model for five high school students with learning disabilities, in which social skills, advocacy, communication skills, career evaluation, and postsecondary concerns were explored through the collaborative efforts of school personnel, community members, outside agencies, the…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Agency Cooperation, Career Exploration, College Day
