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Lipson, Lois – 1994
School volunteers come from many sources and provide a wide range of services at both the elementary and secondary levels. Senior citizens have discovered that volunteering offers an avenue for exercising skills and talents gained through a lifetime of experience. In schools across the country, older adults are being brought into classrooms, to…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Intergenerational Programs, Older Adults
Refvem, Joanna – 2000
Career counseling in middle and high schools should be tailored to the unique characteristics of adolescents during those tumultuous years when they begin to learn more about themselves. Establishing a rapport and building a relationship are key first steps for school counselors working with adolescents and their career aspirations. Individuals…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Counselor Role, High Schools
Berger, Sandra L. – 1990
This digest explores the concept of mentoring with gifted students and offers guidelines on its implementation. The literature on mentoring is reviewed, noting the maturing effect of mentor relationships and the particular value of mentors for disadvantaged students and for females. Among six guidelines offered are: decide what (not whom) the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Gifted
Ellis, Thomas I. – 1991
This digest describes three complementary approaches to integrating guidance into education: (1) the Comprehensive Guidance Program Model, developed by Norman C. Gysbers; (2) the Teacher Advisor Program (TAP), developed by Robert D. Myrick; and (3) the Invitational Learning paradigm, developed by William W. Purkey. Four references are included.…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Comprehensive Guidance, Counseling Objectives, Counselor Role
Andrews, Hans A. – 1997
Although Total Quality Management (TQM) has been adopted at a number of community colleges in the areas of financial aid, admissions and registration, and staff performance, its use is almost non-existent in the evaluation of classroom teaching. Barriers to its application to the classroom include faculty resistance to the idea of students as…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Colleges, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Ascher, Carol – 1988
Planned mentoring programs, which purposefully link disadvantaged youth with someone older and more experienced, have become a popular means of providing adolescents with adult contacts, counselors, and role models. Mentoring programs vary widely in their objectives, and in the duration, frequency, and intensity of the planned relationship. The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Child Relationship, Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth
Hartzell, Gary – 2002
Principals should support school libraries because it is in both their students' and their own best interest to do so. Quality library media programs can enhance student achievement, and informed, committed librarians can help principals enhance their own administrative practice. This ERIC Digest discusses improving student achievement, including…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Fitzsimmons, Mary K. – 1998
This digest reviews and summarizes what is known about effective school-wide behavioral management systems. Emphasis in such systems is on consistency throughout the building and across classrooms with the entire staff, both professional and nonprofessional, uniformly implementing common strategies. Common features of school-wide behavioral…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Problems, Discipline
Guetzloe, Eleanor C. – 1991
This digest summarizes information on incidence in and identification and intervention of potentially suicidal children and youth with disabilities. Estimates suggesting that some categories of exceptional youth have higher suicide rates than the general population are cited. Suicide risk factors and signs that a student is potentially suicidal…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Identification
Ranard, Donald A.; Pfleger, Margo – 1993
The United States has admitted more than 1 million Southeast Asian refugees since 1975. The impact of these refugees on language and literacy education has been profound; many innovations in adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) education have derived from efforts to meet their language and literacy needs. The first wave of refugees in the…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, English (Second Language), Government Role, Hmong People
Parke, Beverly N. – 1992
This digest, in question and answer format, summarizes what is known about effective ways to provide fully educational services for gifted students in the regular classroom. The following questions are addressed: What are the steps to full service? (educators need to plan environments in which all students can fully develop their abilities and…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Educational Needs, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Allen, Robin – 2002
This digest examines the community college's role in helping to fill the current and projected shortage of public school teachers due to increases in the number of teachers retiring and students enrolling. Teacher shortages are most evident in both urban and rural school districts and in the fields of science, mathematics and technology. The…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, College Role, Community Colleges, Minority Group Teachers
Imel, Susan – 1986
Correctional education is a generic term describing a wide range of educational activities that take place in institutional and community settings. In 1986, 37 states and the District of Columbia provided correctional education to incarcerated adults directly through state departments of corrections. In addition, several states have created…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Correctional Education, Disabilities, Educational Needs
Naylor, Michele – 1989
Worker displacement is more closely related to structural features associated with firms than to the characteristics of the individuals who lost their jobs. Despite economic growth, large numbers of displaced workers continue to experience difficulty in making labor market adjustments. Programs to retrain and reemploy displaced workers exist at…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Dislocated Workers, Employment Programs
Imel, Susan – 1996
Research has suggested that many adults choose not to participate in available literacy programs because they equate literacy education with school. Two new directions in adult literacy program development are being explored in an effort to make programs more appealing to nonparticipants. The first is connected to program content and the second…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Change Strategies
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