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Cincalová, Simona; Cerná, Martina – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2021
Volunteering is an activity that enables the development of an individual's competency and is also an area of interest both of society and the academic community. This article aims to compare the motivation for volunteering and the experience of volunteering with students within helping professions and economics. For the purpose of this research,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Foreign Countries, Economics Education, Volunteers
Powell, Cathy – 1988
To increase parent involvement and meet the need for adult help in classrooms, a preschool director implemented a practicum in a church-owned, nondenominational preschool serving 250 children from an upper-middle-class community in the Northeast. The intervention offered a wide range of parent involvement activities, including the formation of a…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Parent Participation, Preschool Education, Private Schools
MOBIUS Corp., Alexandria, VA. – 1994
This report confirms many of the recommendations offered in the 1990 report and offers updated guidance in these areas. Recommendations include practical teaching activities for use with children, training and support strategies for teachers, and ways to involve parents and volunteers. A summary of the recommendations is followed by information on…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Compensatory Education, Computer Uses in Education
MOBIUS Corp., Alexandria, VA. – 1990
This report offers a series of recommendations for the creation of a successful computer learning center in the Head Start classroom. Based on a 6-month study involving 44 classrooms in 11 programs in 7 states, recommendations focus more on children, teachers, and classroom activities than on computers and software. The report recommends many…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Compensatory Education, Computer Uses in Education
Cuyahoga Special Education Service Center, Maple Heights, OH. – 1992
This booklet is intended for Ohio high school volunteers who assist in special education programs and who are members of high school chapters of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). The first section considers the decision to become a volunteer and includes two surveys concerning attitudes toward persons with disabilities and attitudes and…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Career Exploration, Clubs, Definitions
Ownby, Margaret; Braun, Sonja – 1979
Moderate success of individualized programs for severely and profoundly mentally retarded persons in a library setting is documented in this report. These programs were developed following a survey tabulation and analysis of individual education programs, individual program plans, programs assessment chart profiles, and psychological and speech…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Guidelines, Individualized Programs, Institutionalized Persons