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McClure, Julie, Ed.; Vaughan, Lynne, Ed. – 1997
This guide has been created by Project TUTOR to assist elementary schools in the development and implementation of a cross-age tutoring program. The guide notes that the TUTOR experience is designed to build self-esteem and increase resiliency in elementary students by acknowledging accomplishments, supporting learning, and encouraging community…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Higher Education
Prendergast, Leo – Child Care Information Exchange, 2002
Asserts that multi-age grouping in early childhood settings can and does work. Addresses four main hurdles to successful implementation: (1) laws and regulations that act as barriers; (2) health concerns; (3) overcoming educational values that conflict with those of the age-grouped classroom; and (4) staff misunderstanding of multi-age grouping…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Cross Age Teaching, Early Childhood Education
Gaustad, Joan – OSSC Bulletin, 1992
Traditional large-group instruction is geared toward one type of learning style and often assumes a specific cultural background. Tutoring, as a way to augment traditional instruction and help students with special needs, is examined in this bulletin. Following the introduction, chapter 1 reviews evidence supporting the effectiveness of tutoring…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students
City Univ. of New York, NY. Center for Advanced Study in Education. – 1990
This guide is designed to help program leaders build into their child care and latchkey/after school helper programs a "Helpers Promoting Reading" program, in which adolescents read and review books with young children, thus improving the reading skills and attitudes of both groups, and responding to the developmental needs of early…
Descriptors: Adolescents, After School Programs, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education
Bacharach, Nancy; And Others – 1995
This volume provides an examination of the theoretical basis for preschool through elementary school multiage grouping, a realistic picture of what it looks like, some guidelines for planning and implementing a multiage model, and recommendations from practicing multiage teachers. Chapter 1 defines multiage grouping and provides a brief history of…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Curriculum Development, Educational Theories, Elementary Education
Summerbridge National Project, San Francisco, CA. – 1994
A Summerbridge program is a comprehensive 2- to 3-year academic program with intensive summer and school-year sessions, year-round counseling, and family advocacy and is followed by continued support through high school. The tuition-free program targets talented students with limited educational opportunities who are taught by a faculty composed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Counseling, Cross Age Teaching, Disadvantaged Youth
Robledo, Maria del Refugio – 1990
This handbook provides information about an innovative model, Partners for Valued Youth (PVY), that encourages "at-risk" students to stay in school and to set broader goals for themselves through a cross-age tutoring experience in which at-risk middle school students tutor younger, elementary school students. After a preface, the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Age Teaching, Dropout Prevention, Elementary Education