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Peer reviewedBisland, Amy – Gifted Child Today, 2001
This article discusses the benefits of a mentoring program to help gifted students, including helping students to mature, to explore future careers and successes, to apply classroom knowledge, and to gain role models. Strategies for selecting students for a mentoring program and for implementing a mentoring program are provided. (Contains…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Exploration, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Peer reviewedKallick, David – Social Policy, 1993
Lessons worth noting from existing community-service programs include the importance of reciprocity and benefit to the volunteer; accountability to the community; youth leadership; a multigenerational approach; crossing the color line; and open mindedness. The service movement provides real possibilities for mutual advantage. (SLD)
Descriptors: Accountability, Attitudes, Community Programs, Experience
Download full textAdministration for Children, Youth, and Families (DHHS), Washington, DC. – 1991
In view of the literacy skills needed to participate effectively in an increasing complex society, this report discusses the importance of reading and reading development in families, and the effort that Head Start puts into promoting family literacy. The report claims that parents' literacy level can have a strong influence on parent child…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Family Literacy, Intergenerational Programs, Interpersonal Competence
Brummel, Steven W. – Journal of Children in Contemporary Society, 1989
Steps in the development of intergenerational programs include the following: (1) needs assessment; (2) planning; (3) implementation; (4) assuring program longevity; and (5) establishing a national focus. Detailed description of such stages as facility and site procurement, recruitment, orientation, training, maintenance, and support is provided.…
Descriptors: Facility Guidelines, Government Role, Intergenerational Programs, Maintenance
Peer reviewedSmith, Thomas B.; Newman, Sally – Young Children, 1993
Considers the ways in which young children, their families, and teachers and staff benefit from older adults' participation in early childhood and day care programs. Discusses the recruitment, screening, training, orientation, and supervision of older adults in early childhood programs. (BB)
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Mountainbird, Pauline – 1991
A Massachusetts family literacy project, the Northampton Family Literacy Project, is described, in which adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners enrolled in a community educational center in order to learn English as their children enrolled in a child care program at the local library. Both groups were involved in language activities,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature
United Nations, New York, NY. Office of Public Information. – 1990
About two-thirds of the 963 million people in the world who cannot read and write are women, according to the United Nations. Women who are illiterate cannot pass on literacy skills to their children. The United Nations proclaimed 1990 International Literacy Year and conducted conferences for literacy. Education for women and girls was designated…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
