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…

In order to create a computer-literate elementary school, this practicum aimed (1) to provide information about computer-assisted instruction (CAI) to all kindergarten through grade 5 teachers while developing a prototypical classroom in grade 2; (2) to increase community awareness of CAI; and (3) to encourage quality networking among educators…

A teaching team leader and second grade teacher designed and implemented a 10-week practicum intervention meant to improve the inferential comprehension of 105 second graders whose reading scores on the Ginn Mastery Tests revealed a gap between inferential and literal comprehension. It was reasoned that the gap would decrease if teachers were…