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CEMREL, Inc., Minneapolis, MN. – 1979
This Project Information Package (PIP) has been designed to provide teachers with the information needed to teach in the Discovery through Reading Project, originally developed by the Clarkston School District in Michigan. The Project uses a modified tutorial approach for second- and third-grade students who encounter reading difficulties in their…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Program Descriptions, Program Implementation, Reading Difficulties

Miller, Linda J.; And Others – Preventing School Failure, 1993
A systematic process for planning, implementing, and maintaining peer-tutoring interventions is presented. Academic and social benefits of peer tutoring are briefly documented. The process includes four components: planning, training, monitoring/evaluation, and problem solving. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Learning Problems, Peer Teaching
Osguthorpe, Russell T.; Custer, Jeanene D. – 1982
The authors, experienced with educable and trainable mentally handicapped fifth and sixth graders, describe a procedure for training handicapped students to tutor their nonhandicapped peers (reverse role tutoring) to enhance handicapped students' abilities in the areas of academic achievement, personal/social adjustment, and decision making/moral…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Intermediate Grades, Mild Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation
Walker, Barbara J.; Scherry, Ronald; Morrow, Lesley Mandel – 1999
This book provides guidance and practical information for the organization of a volunteer tutoring program. Three sections take supervisors through each step of the program, including: publicizing, obtaining funding, establishing roles of each team member, training volunteers in effective tutoring, and assessing each student's and tutor's…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Program Implementation, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs

Miller, April D.; And Others – LD Forum, 1996
Reasons to use students as tutors to teach mathematics to students with specific learning disabilities are discussed. Descriptions of types of tutoring and training procedures for tutors are included. A guide for implementing math peer tutoring is provided, including procedures for getting ready, running the program, and enrichment and extension.…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Instruction
Welliver, M. Margaret – 1983
This handbook is designed to assist educators in establishing a project that uses volunteers as tutors in an adult education program. It is based on the experiences of a model project conducted by the State College Area School using Kiwanis volunteers. A section on recruitment/publicity lists the activities conducted and resulting publicity items.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Bibliographies, Evaluation
Jacobs, Bella; Ventura-Merkel, Catherine – 1986
This guide describes a model for a community-based literacy program for older adults that uses older adults as tutors. Guidelines are provided to program sponsors for implementing literacy education for older adults. Chapter I provides an overview of the problem of illiterate older adults and literacy education for them. Chapter II addresses the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Community Programs
Berliner, David; Casanova, Ursula – Instructor, 1988
A recent cost-benefit analysis was made of reduced class size, increased instructional time, computer-assisted instruction, and peer or cross-age tutoring. Tutoring turned out to have the greatest effect on student learning and to be the most cost effective. Implementation of a successful tutoring program is described. (MT)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Class Size, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cost Effectiveness
McLeod, Susan H., Ed.; Soven, Margot, Ed. – 1992
This collection of essays on Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) defines terms, presents helpful suggestions, and provides models for useful documents (everything from workshop evaluation forms to contracts for visiting consultants). After a preface by Elaine P. Maimon, the collection's 12 essays are: (1) "Writing Across the Curriculum: An…
Descriptors: Freshman Composition, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Program Descriptions
Myers-Breslin, Linda – 1999
Addressing the issues and problems faced by writing program administrators (WPAs) and writing center directors (WCDs), and how they can most effectively resolve the political, pedagogical, and financial questions that arise, this book presents essays from experienced WPAs and WCDs at a wide variety of institutions that offer scenarios and case…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Higher Education
Gillespie, Marilyn; And Others – 1990
This handbook grew out of the experiences of the teachers and students at the Read/Write/Now Adult Learning Center, a community-based literacy program in Springfield, Massachusetts. It is both a documentation of the experiences of the program and a guide for teachers. The four sections of the handbook contain a number of modules, each of which…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Course Content
Western Sydney Inst. of TAFE, Blacktown (Australia). – 1996
This book provides teachers of English for speakers of other languages and adult basic education with practical teaching strategies that can be applied across a broad range of vocational courses. It provides guidelines for setting up tutorial support within the context of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) vocational courses in Australia.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Smith, Thomas B. – 1994
This guide was developed during a demonstration project conducted in three diverse, multiethnic Western Pennsylvania communities to use older adult tutors as mentors to improve Head Start parents' literacy skills and ability to develop their children's literacy. The guide is intended to facilitate tutors' learning about family literacy and to give…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Cooperative Programs, Demonstration Programs
Cohen, Judy; And Others – 1981
This manual is designed to aid volunteer tutors to use the LEX [language experience] Process for English Reading Instruction Manual (see note) to provide survival and functional English as a second language (ESL) to immigrant and minority people. The Process employs the methods of "language experience" in response to the widely varied language…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adult Students
Harrington, Lois G.; And Others – 1997
These four learning guides comprise one of four packages in the Workplace Literacy Teacher Training series that provides information and skills necessary for the user to become a successful instructor in an effective workplace literacy program. The guides in this package focus on tasks required to support the program as it is implemented. Each…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques