During the 1974-75 school year, the North Carolina migrant program's priorities were program continuity; regular school term and summer programs for interstate and intrastate migrant children; staff development activities; Migrant Student Record Transfer System; migrant education program support team; and mobile vocational instructional program.…

Initiated in October 1970, the program trained teachers to use an individualized teaching approach to teach a cross-age range of children in a small group (six to eight children). Over the winter, the teachers received intensive training with the expectation that during the mobile phase they would be required to work with the children in isolated…

Describes a program for training day care providers in which resource specialists visited caregivers in Seattle and surrounding suburban and rural areas in a specially equipped and staffed van. Outcomes of the program as well as trainee characteristics are reported. (RH)

An early childhood education program for children of migrant and seasonal farm workers, the Project provides tutoring, usually outside of regular school hours, to kindergarten and first grade children. The tutoring is done by adult paraprofessionals who are former migrants or seasonal farm workers. Program focus is to: (1) develop the child's…

In 1971-72, 7,714 students were enrolled in the Colorado Migrant Education Programs. Programs were conducted in 21 different program areas, covering 42 school districts. About 85 percent of the students were in the elementary grades. Inservice training for the staff stressed individualized instruction, improving the migrant child's self-concept,…

The Bilingual Mini Head Start program is an early education program for children of migrant farm workers. The program has three permanent sites--two year-round sites in Washington which serve both mobile migrants and seasonal farm workers' children, and a home base site in Grulla, Texas which serves only mobile migrant children. Teachers from…

The early education program uses paraprofessional teachers to provide bilingual multicultural education to children of migrant and seasonal farm workers. The program operates on an interstate and interdistrict basis. Interstate migrant children from south Texas are followed from their home base community to northern locations. By working…

Interviews, program documents, progress reports supplied by the secondary itinerant teacher, and results of a questionnaire survey conducted by the itinerant teacher provided information for a brief, interim evaluation of the Secondary Itinerant Teacher Service. The service has endeavored to help all students (including adults) enrolled with the…

The Colorado Migrant Education Program seeks to identify and meet the specific educational needs of all migrant children in the State. In providing comprehensive services to migrant students, Colorado has organized and operated its migrant educational program around the following basic program aspects: (1) conducting a year-round, statewide…

A 5-year experimental project, the Bilingual Mini Head Start program is an early education program for children of migrant farm workers. The program has 2 components: the mobile and the stationary components. In the stationary program, 2 year-round centers are operated in Connell and Moses Lake (Washington). These centers' purpose is to…

A 5-year experimental program, the Bilingual Mini Head Start program is an early education program for children of migrant farm workers. Consisting of a mobile and a stationary component, the program includes: (1) an interstate mobile delivery system, (2) an individualized curriculum which can be taught by migrant adults, and (3) intensive…

Interviews, project documents, and parent responses provided information for an interim evaluation of the Primary Itinerant Teacher Service, a pilot project designed to improve educational opportunities of children in the South-West Priority Country Area. In 1978, 3 itinerant teams of 2 teachers each contacted 238 students in 164 families and…

The outreach activities component of the Responsive Environment Program for Spanish American Children (REPSAC), an extremely successful early childhood bilingual intervention program in Clovis, New Mexico, enabled the project to provide replication services to various local education agencies requesting such services. During 1977-78, student…

During 1972-73, the Colorado Migrant Education Program served 5,455 migrant students. Enrollment dropped for the second straight year as weather, housing, and crop changes affected the migrant family's movement. Programs were conducted in 20 project areas, covering 39 school districts. Program offerings were expanded to include such components as…

A project to transport career education resources to teachers in Rhode Island's elementary and secondary schools was evaluated on the basis of its seven objectives: (1) to publicize information about career education and the materials and services provided by the project, (2) to make available career education materials, resources, and services to…