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Peer reviewedDriessen, Jon J.; Pyfer, Julene Newland – Sociology of Education, 1975
To examine how an unconventional setting would affect a conventional occassion, the authors held a formal class in their homes instead of a traditional classroom. (Author/DE)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Environment, Course Descriptions, Educational Environment
Peer reviewedOlmsted, Particia P.; And Others – Theory Into Practice, 1977
A list of ten "Desirable Teaching Behaviors" has been developed to effectively guide the actions of parents and teachers alike in the home education of children. (MB)
Descriptors: Education, Home Instruction, Motivation Techniques, Parent Child Relationship
Peer reviewedMattox, Beverly; Rich, Dorothy – Theory Into Practice, 1977
The Home and School Institute operates to develop specific, easy, low cost, practical ways to share educational accountability between home and school, and to develop ways in which schools can enhance school-community interaction. (MB)
Descriptors: Community Support, Home Instruction, Learning Activities, Parent Role
Guernsey, John – American Education, 1972
Children in a sparsely populated district in Oregon receive first-rate preschool training at a fraction of the cost of customary kindergartens. (Editor)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Home Instruction, Home Programs, Parent Participation
Peer reviewedKolasa, Kathryn; And Others – Journal of Nutrition Education, 1979
Families were surveyed to determine if and how families were learning nutrition at home and the feasibility of the home as a learning center. Family feeding was viewed as a long-term learning activity and ranked first in time pursued. The kitchen was identified as a home learning center. (Author/MA)
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Family Life Education, Food, Health Education
Peer reviewedBarbetta, Patricia Marie; Heron, Timothy E. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1991
The article describes Project SHINE (Summer Home Instruction and Evaluation), which trains parents to provide brief instructional sessions to their mildly handicapped children. Five parent-child teams were trained in the six program components: pretest, practice, test, track and chart, supplemental practice, and maintenance probes. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Home Instruction, Mild Disabilities, Parent Education
Peer reviewedJette, Alan M.; Rooks, Dan; Lachman, Margie; Lin, Ting H.; Levenson, Claudia; Heislein, Diane; Giorgetti, Marie M.; Harris, B. A. – Gerontologist, 1998
Identifies factors associated with exercise participation and adherence in a sample of sedentary, functionally limited, community-dwelling adults ages 60 to 94 who participated in a home-based resistance training program (N=102). Results show that psychological factors were most important to adherence to the home-based program. (Author/MKA)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Exercise, Health, Home Instruction
Download full textFewell, Rebecca R.; Sandall, Susan R. – 1985
Two studies investigated the effectiveness of a parent-implemented intervention to teach nine Down Syndrome infants social-communicative behaviors. The intervention took place in the infants' homes and consisted of teaching parents: (1) to recognize social-communicative behaviors; (2) to use specified turn-taking strategies in games and routines;…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Communication Skills, Downs Syndrome, Home Instruction
Greene, Sue S. – 1984
This study offers a profile of Alaska home study students and their families. Subjects were 88 students drawn from enrollees in the state-run K-12 Centralized Correspondence Study program. Survey results showed that the students live in both rural, isolated regions and larger, more urban areas of Alaska. Most of them are taught by the mother, who…
Descriptors: Correspondence Study, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Characteristics, Home Instruction
1975
This handbook is designed to help parents help their children learn to read and to deal successfully with school tasks. It contains suggested activities and games, many of which can be made at home. Suggestions are also given for how to make reading an easy, pleasant task instead of a difficult tiring one. Suggestions are offered for children of…
Descriptors: Home Instruction, Learning Activities, Parent Participation, Reading Games
Driscoll, Patrick A. – Nat Elem Princ, 1969
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Home Instruction, Primary Education, Remedial Instruction
Hearing and Speech Agency of Metropolitan Baltimore, Inc., MD. – 1977
The document contains the final report of the HIP (Hearing and Speech Agency Infant Parent) Project, a program which provided 19 communicatively handicapped children (0-5 years old) with a home-center based language program. Sections focus on the direct and supplementary services for children (including a description of the project population and…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Early Childhood Education, Handicapped Children, Home Instruction
Walling, Victor C., Jr.; And Others – 1979
This study identifies and assesses the potential impact of new electronic technologies on education in private homes, and looks beyond immediate incremental changes to broader, more subtle, complex, or threatening changes that may require attention from federal policymakers. Some educational implications are discussed: (1) equality of access to…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Technology, Educational Trends, Electronics
SCHWARTZ, ANTHONY N.; AND OTHERS – 1965
AN INTENSIVE PRESCHOOL PROGRAM OF HOME TEACHING AND GUIDANCE WAS CONDUCTED WITH 30 RURAL AREA DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN. THE SAMPLES WERE GROUPED INTO (1) AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP THAT RECEIVED 21 WEEKS OF HOME TEACHING, (2) A CONTROL GROUP THAT RECEIVED ATTENTION THROUGH HOME VISITS, AND (3) A CONTROL GROUP THAT RECEIVED ONLY THE TESTING. THE…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Television, Home Instruction, Home Programs
Butte Vocational-Technical Center, Montana. – 1971
Project Homebound, a pilot demonstration program in the use of volunteers as a means of attacking adult illiteracy, proved operational in Butte, Montana. Home bound instructors were divided into six teaching teams, each comprised of a certified teacher who served as team leader and designed the materials used, two teacher's aides who recruited…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Home Instruction, Homebound
