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Harding, Mary H. – 1988
A music educator designed for elementary school students who were musically unskilled a curriculum that was based on the methods of Kodaly and Orff, the philosophy of Warrener, and traditional music education concepts. A heterogeneous group of 606 second- through sixth-grade students in 4 schools participated in implementation of the curriculum.…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Learning Activities
Gillette, Tracy L. – 1991
A project developed a plan to improve oral reading in 12 mentally handicapped adults by stressing observation of punctuation marks, reading in phrases, using proper volume, and increasing confidence levels. Identifying the parts of a book and identifying new words were also included. The 12 students were reading below their potential, as shown by…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Learning Activities, Mental Retardation
Harville, Valerie Terrill – 1986
A physical education specialist at an elementary school in one of the fastest growing sections of the country developed and implemented a developmental motor skills program for primary school students. The program focused on: (1) developing a method of referring students for testing; (2) providing a specialized motor diagnostic test; (3) improving…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Educational Practices, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Wessel, Karen E. – 1988
A 10-week practicum intervention was designed to reduce deficiencies in 10 kindergarten children in southwest Florida with poor fine motor skills. The intervention consisted of daily instruction and weekly activity tests. Activities included drawing, tracing, cutting with scissors, pasting, molding with clay, various games, lacing, weaving, and…
Descriptors: Eye Hand Coordination, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Learning Activities
Betancourt, Irene – 1990
A guidance counselor and chair of an elementary school's special services team implemented a 10-week practicum intervention designed to improve the school attendance of 107 kindergarten through fifth grade students who were chronically absent. While 49 percent of the truant students lived in an inner-city housing project, 62 percent lived in…
Descriptors: Attendance, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Family School Relationship
Hooper, Elizabeth J. – 1994
Parents of a group of first graders knew very little about the whole-language approach to reading employed in their children's classroom and were consequently unable to help their children as they learned to read. A program was implemented to provide parents in a target group with an understanding of the whole-language approach to reading as well…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Learning Activities, Parent Participation, Parent Student Relationship
Brett, Catherine A. – 1993
As part of a restructuring initiative to meet the curriculum needs of the "Information Age," a plan for teaching telecommunications to middle school students was developed. The resulting program, called Bulletin Board Simulator (BBS), provided a hands-on approach to teaching students the skills necessary for accessing an electronic…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Curriculum Development, Databases
Haygood, Etta L. – 1989
A kindergarten teacher implemented a practicum with her students in an effort to improve their receptive and expressive vocabularies. Five kindergarten students were selected from the 23 identified as language-impaired. Four of these five participated in the practicum to its completion. During a 10-week period, target children were involved in…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Classroom Techniques, Expressive Language, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Fulton, Mona Layne – 1990
A primary grades specialist implemented a 10-week practicum intervention designed to increase third graders' social skills by training their teachers in cooperative learning techniques and providing cooperatively structured lessons. Eight skills were addressed; these included the skills of accepting peers' ideas for group activities, completing…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Guidelines
Neitzey, Sharon C. – 1992
In response to parents' expressed need for appropriate academic strategies to be used at home with their kindergarten children, a series of parent workshops were designed to explain the philosophy of developmentally appropriate practices with children and to train parents to select activities that followed the philosophy. Participating parents…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Educational Strategies, Kindergarten
Mohanty, Pranoti S. – 1993
This practicum project sought to improve nutrition in a day care program serving children ages 2 through 14 years by increasing staff, student, and parent knowledge about nutrition. The primary goal was to increase knowledge and interest in nutrition and its relation to wellness of students, staff, and parents. The second goal was to provide…
Descriptors: Child Health, Day Care, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Wolfe, Linda A. – 1990
An experienced third-grade teacher at an elementary school whose students were predominantly Hispanic designed and implemented a practicum in her class of academically above-average students with a low level of verbal participation in class. The target group of 25 students was involved in social studies, science, and expressive language activities…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Students, Expressive Language