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Andries, Kenneth M.; Simon, Marion; Rivers, Louie – Journal of Extension, 2016
Kentucky State University has been conducting a monthly field day known as the Third Thursday Thing for many years. This program has been successful in reaching limited-resource, minority, and underserved clients. The success of the program has indicated that a nontraditional approach can be successful when working with nontraditional clients. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Disadvantaged, Extension Education, Agricultural Production
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Dennis, Lindsay R.; Weatherly, Jennifer; Robbins, Audrey; Wade, Taryn – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2021
High-quality early childhood (EC) education has emerged as a national priority alongside the need for ensuring practitioners have the knowledge and skills to support the learning of all children, including those with disabilities and delays (Snyder et al., 2012). To create high-quality learning environments that meet the needs of children…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Paraprofessional School Personnel, Program Implementation, Reading Aloud to Others
Hadley, Barbara; Rudolph, Kara E.; Mogul, Marjie; Perry, Deborah F. – ZERO TO THREE, 2014
Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting legislation permits states to fund "promising practices"--with the understanding that these models will have a rigorous evaluation component. This article describes an innovative, low cost paraprofessional home visiting model developed in Pennsylvania by the Maternity Care Coalition. In…
Descriptors: Home Visits, Early Intervention, Paraprofessional Personnel, Models
National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, 2017
Improving school climate takes time and commitment from a variety of people in a variety of roles. This document outlines key action steps that instructional staff--including teachers, paraprofessionals, and others in the classroom who provide instruction or assistance--can take to support school climate improvements. Key action steps are provided…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Educational Strategies, Program Implementation
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Smith, Kevin G.; Foorman, Barbara R. – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2015
This guide is designed to facilitate self-studies of planning and implementation of state-required summer reading camp programs for grade 3 students who scored at the lowest level on the state reading assessment. It provides a template for data collection and guiding questions for discussion that may improve instruction and increase the number of…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
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Adolphson, S. Lillian; Hawken, Leanne S.; Stein Carroll, Mishele – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2010
This article describes an effective model for employing paraprofessionals to provide behavioral support for students in a general education setting. Behavioral health assistants (BHAs) worked under the supervision of school psychologists and counselors and provided behavioral interventions for students with behavioral goals on their individualized…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, School Psychologists, Disabilities, School Personnel
Johnson, Judy J.; Everett, Frances L. – 1977
This study focused on a program which was designed and implemented to incorporate paraprofessional "dorm counselors," who provided direct supervision of the adolescents in the residential center, into the diagnostic process. A Behavioral Assessment Training Program was designed to focus on three specific components of behavioral…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Counselor Training, Evaluation, Interviews
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Haber, David – Educational Gerontology, 1982
Emphasizes preservice education and training of older persons for work with their peers. Describes three training programs with older participants: the Senior Companion Program, the Health and Fitness Program, and the Closing the Generation Gap Project. (RC)
Descriptors: Educational Gerontology, Educational Opportunities, Older Adults, Paraprofessional Personnel
Morical, Lee – 1978
An experimental program is described which was designed to train non-urban housewives for paid employment as paraprofessional peer counselors. A flow chart traces the origin of the project back to 1969, when the future project director recognized the mental health needs of a variety of non-urban housewives of all ages. The resulting peer counselor…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Females, Helping Relationship, Homemakers
Moore, R. H.; Levine, D.
The report presents a description of a volunteer probation counselor program involving the use of volunteer citizens in counseling relationships with youthful misdemeanant offenders. The program was conducted by the Lincoln-Lancaster, Nebraska, Municipal Court. The report contains a description of the essential features of the program including…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Change Strategies, Counseling Services, Delinquent Rehabilitation
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Sack, Sara H.; McLean, Lee K. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 1997
Discusses the importance of teaching communication skills to individuals with severe disabilities and reviews the development and evaluation of Developing Communicative Interactions, a data-based staff training program that supports the development of a prescribed set of interaction skills by interacting communication partners. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Interaction, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence
Martin, Gary L.; And Others – 1979
A three-year longitudinal description is presented of a college health aide program, and an assessment is made of the changes resulting from a cutback in funding. In this program students are trained as paraprofessional health aides and serve in this capacity in their group residences for a small weekly salary. A record of the number of visits…
Descriptors: College Students, Health Education, Health Personnel, Health Services
Galt, Lester – 1973
This paper presents the objectives and results of an experimental program, the Teen Age Medical Service, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The first objective of this program was to experiment with new ways of delivering additional, more extensive, and continuous personal services while maintaining the emergency and episodic services that have…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Health Services, Delivery Systems, Institutional Research
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Turner, Diane J.; Grotzky, Marilyn E. – Reference Librarian, 1995
Describes the use of paraprofessional library staff at Aurora Library (Colorado) to teach part of the bibliographic instruction sessions. Highlights include strategic planning, revising the library instruction program to incorporate reduction and still meet the students' educational needs, staff attitudes, and program evaluation and changes. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Library Instruction, Library Planning
Southwestern Region Deaf-Blind Center, Sacramento, CA. – 1975
The document contains the coordinator's guide, recruitment guide, practicum guide, training model, curriculum guide, bibliography, and evaluation guide for TABS, (Trained Aides as Baby Sitters), a training program that prepares individuals to be competent sitters for deaf-blind children and that provides a curriculum tailored to the needs of the…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Curriculum, Deaf Blind, Infants
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