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Nemiroff, Joanne – 1989
An elementary school teacher and counselor designed a practicum which provided a model that teachers and parents used to enhance the developmental and academic skills of kindergarten children. The major goal was to increase the acquisition of skills through the child's preferred learning modality. Teachers and parents were given training that…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Kindergarten Children, Learning Modalities
Hebron, Preston T., Jr. – 1981
In this practicum, 15 learning-disabled pupils in grades two and three participated in an individualized program featuring mastery learning, a personalized system of instruction, attention to learning style and modality, and behavior modification, in order to improve reading levels and poor behavior. Program components included learning stations,…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Cognitive Style, Individualized Instruction, Individualized Programs
Vallarta, Carolyn R. – 1991
This report describes a 12-week program designed to increase time on task for kindergarten students. Members of a targeted group of kindergarten students were identified as being off task an average of 1.9 times more than the rest of the class. A program that incorporated the dominant learning styles of students in the target group with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention Span, Cognitive Style, Critical Thinking
Owens, S. Jane – 1991
A practicum involved the design and implementation of a 10-week workshop that acquainted the staff of a nursery school with information about learning styles in the preschool. It was determined that because of a lack of information about learning styles, teachers and staff lacked the skills and confidence needed to apply learning style theory to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Communication Skills, Discipline, Learning Modalities
Yeckes, Shelley – 1987
Six learning-disabled second-grade resource room students with auditory deficits had poor listening skills that inhibited their attention to directions and their accurate completion of assignments. Using a curriculum which incorporated visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities, the practicum project encouraged and motivated the children and…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Modification, Grade 2
Schuman, Jonathan C. – 1991
Previous research has indicated that numerically based problem-solving can be taught to children and that it should be initiated on a continuing basis in the elementary school years, yet there is no evidence for the existence of an exact, comprehensive process through which problem-solving with numerical comparisons and addition or subtraction…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 2, Grade 3
Piatt, Corinne Z. – 1980
A program for underachieving elementary school students with perceptual deficits was designed to integrate perceptual training into a "pullout" remedial program for non-public schools in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (exclusive of the City of Pittsburgh). One-hundred children in grades two through eight and 10 remedial teachers participated in…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Formative Evaluation
