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Zurbruegg, Eleanore; And Others – Instructor, 1977
Presents the results of the Best Teaching Idea contest that sparked a response that flooded the editors with entries. Here are the 20 adjudged the best ranging all the way from self-made computers to games made by kids to be played with parents. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Activities, Student Development, Student Participation
Tierney, Robert J. – Learning, 1992
Describes portfolio assessment, recommending it as a means of dynamic and ongoing student evaluation. For students, portfolios stimulate thinking and promote independence. For teachers, they provide a multidimensional view of each child's development. The article explains how to get started, customize portfolio contents, collect notes, and manage…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Portfolios (Background Materials), Student Development
Levenson, Dorothy – Teacher, 1976
Performing artists watch and share as children and teacher explore the creative process. (Editor)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Artists, Dance, Elementary Education
Criscuolo, Nicholas P. – Teacher, 1978
Mothers and fathers won't stay away from school if you encourage them to become active participants. (Editor)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Guides, Motivation Techniques, Parent Attitudes
Haverty, Lisa; And Others – 1996
A study examined a program for improving attitudes toward reading. Subjects were 19 kindergarten, 39 first-grade, 17 second-grade, and 29 sixth-grade students in a middle class southwestern suburb of Chicago, Illinois. Reading attitude problems were documented through parent/student surveys and observations. Students' reading was prioritized in…
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Education, Literacy, Parent Participation
Paratore, Jeanne R.; Melzi, Gigliana; Krol-Sinclair, Barbara – 1999
This book is a detailed account of the effects of parental involvement in a literacy project on Latino children's academic performance, addressing methods of parent participation, home literacy uses by children, and the nature of school experiences. The first two chapters provide family literacy and Intergenerational Literacy Project background…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Diversity (Student), Elementary Education, Family English Literacy
Ferrara, Margaret M.; Knight, Stephanie L. – 1993
The Accelerated Schools program is a popular school restructuring model that targets at-risk students. To serve at-risk students better under the Accelerated Schools program, schools must establish a governance program in which cadres of school practitioners and community members become involved in the decision making. Decisions of these cadres…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Blann, Mary E. – 1983
The total development of the child can be enhanced and enriched through various activities in physical education, youth sport, and leisure pursuits. Children between the ages of 5 and 12 are eager, enthusiastic, highly motivated, and interested in physical activity, and they comprise the population served by the school physical education program…
Descriptors: Athletics, Child Development, Children, Competition
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Manley, Mary Ann; Simon, Alan E. – Reading Teacher, 1980
Describes a school district's efforts to make teachers, parents, and students more aware of the importance and fun of reading. (RL)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Family Involvement, Group Activities, Integrated Activities
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Beck, Clive; Kosnik, Clare – Teaching and Teacher Education, 2001
Evaluated the effects on student teachers of a preservice program that grouped them into cohorts and emphasized community- building. Interview, observation, and questionnaire data highlighted positive effects (high participation levels in group activities, greater awareness of the value of collaboration, and greater willingness to take risks in…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Consciousness Raising, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education
Gathercoal, Paul – 2000
Students need democratic models operating in their daily lives and opportunities to exercise their democratic rights and responsibilities. From 1995-1997 an action research project studied the effect "Judicious Discipline," a democratic citizenship model for school and classroom management, had on students, educators, and parents.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Classroom Environment
Bien, Ellen C.; Stern, Susan S. – 1994
This paper describes an elementary school's attempts to give its students a "moral education." The school's program emphasized participation and discussion while stressing rules and principles of cooperation, trust, community, autonomy, and self-reliance. School personnel initiated a more democratic environment by moving the locus of…
Descriptors: Children, Classroom Techniques, Democracy, Discipline
Grady, Michael K. – 1990
In September 1985, the Prince George's County Public School System located in the Washington metropolitan area east of the District of Columbia, began implementation of a Milliken relief program to revamp its equity strategy. Initially, 10 of 117 elementary schools in the system were targeted for relief, but by September 1988, the Milliken program…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
Maker, C. June; King, Margaret A. – 1996
This book and video are based on a symposium on ways to foster giftedness in children in kindergarten through third grade. Emphasized throughout are DISCOVER projects, federally funded research and development projects to assist Arizona educators in identifying and planning programs for gifted children from diverse cultural, ethnic, and linguistic…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Design
Traill, Robyn; And Others – 1992
This guide is designed to help teachers respond to the changing needs of children, to changing knowledge about how children learn, and to the stress teachers experience in dealing with children's development. The first section of the guide addresses the topics of: (1) educational changes relating to children, teachers, classrooms, and basic…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
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