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Vacca, JoAnne L. – Reading Horizons, 1980
Discusses the uses of surveys, notes the types of survey instruments available, and provides examples of survey instruments to assess teacher competencies and student reading behavior. Suggests that surveys are especially useful for providing information for two sections of grant applications: the needs assessment and comprehensive planning…
Descriptors: Grantsmanship, Measurement Techniques, Program Development, Proposal Writing
Gillett, Judy – Australian Journal of Reading, 1980
Examines issues related to organizing the teaching of reading in secondary schools, such as the lack of liaison between elementary and secondary schools and the confinement of reading instruction to only English or remedial classes. Suggests that secondary school faculty cooperate in using all available resources to produce literate adults. (AEA)
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Educational Cooperation, Integrated Curriculum, Program Development
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Anders, Patricia L. – Journal of Reading, 1981
Suggests that secondary school reading specialists desiring to establish a school-based, schoolwide reading program form a reading committee composed of content area teachers who propose ideas and help implement them. (MKM)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Program Development, Reading Consultants, Reading Programs
Bean, Rita M.; Wilson, Robert M. – 1981
Intended for reading specialists who wish to become expert resource persons, this book provides a number of suggestions on how to bring about change in the attitudes of other educators concerning the place of the reading specialist in regular classroom settings. The nine chapters of the book provide the following information: (1) an overview of…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Program Development, Reading Consultants
Morrison, Beverly – 1980
This guide presents a staff development program on content area reading that high school reading specialists can conduct for teachers of content areas such as history, chemistry, and literature. Section one of the guide offers specific reasons why professional growth is necessary for teachers, why reading education ought to be part of that…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Faculty Development, Guidelines, Inservice Teacher Education
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Dependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC. – 1982
Designed to identify and develop reading skills, stimulate the desire to read, promote an appreciation of literature, and encourage reading as a lifelong habit, the Department of Defense Dependents Schools Comprehensive Reading Program presented in this pamphlet outlines the major functions of the reading improvement specialist (RIS). These…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Mainstreaming, Program Development
Wepner, Shelley B., Ed.; And Others – 1989
This book is intended to help preservice and inservice reading specialists, supervisors, and administrators understand how to organize and supervise reading programs, pre-kindergarten through grade twelve. Each of the major parts of this book concerns some of the knowledge areas necessary for administering reading programs. Titles of the chapters…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education, Language Arts