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Hammond, Shirley D. – 1999
This handbook has been developed to offer guidelines and suggestions to volunteers in mentoring programs to help them strengthen the mentoring relationship. The program for which the handbook was designed, the Mentor/Tutor Network in Madison, Wisconsin, has evolved into a comprehensive support system for schools to collaborate with community…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Mentors, Program Development, Program Implementation
Hammond, Shirley D. – 1999
This guidebook has been compiled to help school staff and community volunteers implement one-to-one friendships with students needing special attention. High-need disadvantaged youth, talented and gifted students, and adolescents having a temporarily difficult time in their lives can all benefit from mentoring. The mentor program for which this…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Mentors, Program Development
Lupkowski, Ann E.; And Others – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1990
The article describes application to mathematically gifted elementary age students of the diagnostic/prescriptive model developed by the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth. A five-step procedure of beyond-level standardized testing is followed by mentored instruction based on analysis of testing errors. (DB)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education
Reglin, Gary – 1998
Research has shown mentoring to be a powerful alternative education and dropout prevention strategy for students at risk. This book is designed to help teachers, school administrators, case managers in the juvenile justice system, and others who work with at-risk students develop mentoring programs. Chapter 1, "Teachers Can Restructure Education…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Interpersonal Relationship
Nash, Diane; Treffinger, Don – 1993
Mentorships, the art of a creatively productive person teaching, counseling, and inspiring a student with similar interests, can be the result of circumstance or they can be the result of mentorship programs engineered in the academic world. Data collected from over 25 different academic models of mentorship have been distilled into 7 key steps to…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Counseling, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Elementary and Secondary Education. – 1983
This is one of a series of implementation documents prepared in conjunction with the revised minimum standards adopted in 1983 by the Ohio State Board of Education. The minimum standards allow school districts to provide educational options to meet specialized student needs or interests; accordingly, the purpose of this document is to describe…
Descriptors: Correspondence Study, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Extension Education
Download full textSawyer, Donna, Comp.; And Others – 1993
This implementation manual has been developed to describe four model mathematics and science programs designed to increase African-American students' interest in mathematics and science. The manual will help affiliates of the Urban League to mobilize existing community resources to achieve the goals of the national education initiative. The four…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Students, Community Action, Community Organizations
