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Hu, Aihua; Huang, Lihong – ECNU Review of Education, 2021
Purpose: Through reviewing an education policy blueprint in Norway, titled "An Offer of Homework Assistance" (issued by the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training in June 2010), the present article aims to shed light on how Norway uses education as an arena to realize social equality and equity. Design/Approach/Methods: This is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Homework, Policy Analysis
Wooten, Cynthia Brooks – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2019
The role of teacher educators as researcher-practitioner is viewed in this narrative reflection from the perspective of the author, the professor of record for a course in which an early field experience tutoring opportunity was embedded. The manuscript reports on the tutoring experiences through the lens of the author with instigations and…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Field Experience Programs, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Educators
Mosley Wetzel, Melissa; L. Roser, Nancy; Hoffman, James V.; Antonio Martínez, Ramón; Price-Dennis, Detra – Action in Teacher Education, 2016
The authors, a team of literacy teacher educators who are focused on extending our own understandings of preservice teacher (PST) learning, conducted a cross-case analysis of how PSTs learned to teach literacy in three concurrent practicum experiences. We draw on Grossman's framework of representations, decompositions, and approximations to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods, Literacy, Practicums
Russell-Bowie, Deirdre – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2013
Many Australian state primary schools have a policy to use generalist teachers to teach music as well as many other subjects, however research indicates that primary generalist teachers lack confidence and competence to teach music in their classrooms. Added to this, preservice teachers enter their initial teacher education course with little or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music, Music Education, Preservice Teachers

Jason, Leonard A.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1979
A multiple baseline design indicated that prompting was effective in establishing tutoring behaviors among the children. By program end, all children were using corrective feedback, re-presenting questions, and employing contingent praise. Positive findings also were shown in academic, behavioral, and consumer satisfaction indices. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Elementary Education, Peer Teaching
De Pillis, Susan – American School Board Journal, 1982
Describes how a senior citizen volunteer tutor program at Emerson Elementary School in Riverside (California) achieved success through careful preparation, staff and student cooperation, extra effort to find interested senior citizens, and continual expression of appreciation to volunteers. Presents 17 hints on starting a grandpeople project. (RW)
Descriptors: Affection, Elementary Education, Older Adults, Program Development

Jackson, Louise A. – Language Arts, 1981
Describes a program in which outside experts are enlisted to enrich and supplement a classroom writing program through individual tutoring. Offers guidelines for establishing such a program and suggests appropriate activities. (HTH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction, Program Descriptions, Tutorial Programs
Dale, Mary E. – Exceptional Parent, 1979
The article describes a program implemented in an elementary school in which normal children tutored their disabled peers. Among suggestions given for developing peer tutoring programs are the careful selection of participants, administration of pre-post achievement tests, and development of individualized objectives and activities. (SBH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Handicapped Children, Peer Teaching, Program Descriptions

Andrews, Jean F.; Brame, Michael – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1987
The article describes a four-week summer course in which an eight-year-old prelingually deaf boy helped undergraduate students learn sign language and the students helped him learn English print word/phrase equivalents. (DB)
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Deafness, Elementary Education, Higher Education

Criscuolo, Nicholas P. – PTA Today, 1982
The New Haven (Connecticut) public school system has been successful in involving parents in their children's reading instruction through several activities: (1) reading project exhibits; (2) Parents' Center, where parents meet to discuss educational concerns; (3) parent brochures; (4) parent tutors; (5) home-school book projects; and (6)…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Exhibits, Parent Participation, Parent Student Relationship

Wasik, Barbara A. – Reading Teacher, 1999
Describes what reading coaches do (provide literacy enrichment without emphasizing the diagnostic and intervention aspects of reading), how this differs from reading tutors, and how reading coaches can help with literacy development in schools. Discusses activities for reading coaches, and benefits of a reading coach program. (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Literacy, Program Descriptions, Reading Improvement
Adler, Jerry – Newsweek, 1998
Examines the increasing demand for and proliferation of commercial tutoring services for grade school students. Discusses the approaches of several such programs, as well as the goals and attitudes of parents enlisting such services for their children. (HTH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Performance Factors, Remedial Instruction

Marious, Sidney E., Jr. – Reading Improvement, 2000
Reviews research that confirms the author's beliefs that cross-age tutoring programs are very successful programs. Identifies three major components in successful cross-age tutoring programs: (1) planning the tutoring program; (2) training for the tutors in interpersonal skills, management skills, and content skills; and (3) tutoring techniques…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship

Peck, Jacqueline K. – Ohio Reading Teacher, 2000
Shares Governor Taft's literacy goals and insights with the reading professionals throughout the state who work with Ohio's young readers and their volunteer tutors. Shares the perspectives of Nancy Padak and Janet Day, members of the OhioReads Council, on the progress and promise of OhioReads. Invites readers' responses--as teachers, as…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement

Sheley, Joseph F. – Journal of Educational Research, 1984
Students enrolled in EXTRA, a tutorial program in basic reading and mathematics skills, were compared with non-EXTRA students to measure the program's success. EXTRA achieved success in mathematics tutorials but not in its reading program. Implications of findings are reviewed. (Author/DF)
Descriptors: After School Programs, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Mathematics Skills