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Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1977
This book is for the use of teachers, parents, and administrators who are planning to initiate a learning-by-tutoring project in their schools. In this teaching method, secondary school students tutor elementary students in basic skills. The goal is to enhance the learning and motivation of the tutors, in contrast to the practice in which the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cross Age Teaching, Educational Legislation, Educationally Disadvantaged
Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1977
Cross age tutoring is the subject of this document. In this teaching method, secondary school students tutor elementary students in basic skills. The goal is to enhance the learning and motivation of the tutors, in contrast to the practice in which the learning of the tutee is the primary focus. This document, one of a series of seven on this…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cross Age Teaching, Peer Teaching, Program Design
Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1977
This is an overview of a project in which cross-age tutoring is used as a means of enhancing the learning and motivation of the tutors, in contrast to the practice in which the learning of the tutee is the primary focus. This teaching method is referred to as the "Learning-Tutoring Cycle." It is recommended that secondary students who are in need…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Cross Age Teaching, Individual Instruction
Taylor, Derek B.; Fleming, Margaret – 1973
The Resident Tutor Project, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, was initiated in June 1968, in an effort to prevent skill deficits from progressing to such a point that they are beyond remediation within the relatively short span of a child's school years. The project was designed to provide additional resources to…
Descriptors: College Students, Compensatory Education, Cross Age Teaching, Disadvantaged Youth
Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1977
This survey was undertaken in order to assess the nature of tutoring projects that have been implemented in schools, particularly in urban schools. It was also an attempt to locate examples of a particular kind of tutoring project, one designed primarily to promote learning in the tutors. This objective is based on the assumption that secondary…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Helping Relationship
Colosimo, Jerry – 1973
The Western Institute for Science and Technology, operating since 1968, has had as its objective taking certain of the most promising of the techniques emerging from educational research, combining them, and testing their validity by implementing them in selected school situations. Vanguard, the instructional model which has emerged from this…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cross Age Teaching, Incentives, Individual Instruction
Teaching and Learning Research Corp., New York, NY. – 1972
This evaluation of the Title I, Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965 programs of New York City Community School District I, reviews six programs, as follows: (1) Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten program, Early Childhood Pre-School Summer Headstart, serving children who have never attended school and who will attend kindergarten or some who…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cross Age Teaching, Day Camp Programs, Early Childhood Education
Teaching and Learning Research Corp., New York, NY. – 1972
Since its inception in 1963, the Homework Helper Program, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Act, has provided an effective vehicle for the challenging of traditional theory in regard to the tutoring of educationally retarded children. It began on the assumption that children in slum area schools could benefit from tutorial…
Descriptors: After School Education, College Students, Compensatory Education, Cross Age Teaching
Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1976
Forty randomly selected, nonvolunteer, low achieving ninth graders selected from four classes in an inner city junior high school, were assigned the role of tutor to elementary school children in order to determine if this practice was promising as a method of compensatory education. In three of the four classrooms, the tutors and nontutors…
Descriptors: Black Students, Compensatory Education, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education