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Teaching Note--Supporting Homebound Older Adults and Caregivers through Integrative Service Learning
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Chan, Keith T.; Marsack-Topolewski, Christina; LaFave, Sarah; Ratnayake, Maggie; Graves, Jillian; Fenske, Diane; Jones, Lynn – Journal of Social Work Education, 2023
The Supporting Older Adults & Caregivers: Integrative Service Learning (SOCIAL) partnership trains undergraduate social work students to provide practical home-based support for older adults with chronic illness and their family caregivers, serving as a pipeline for future leaders in older adult care. More than 2 million older adults are…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Caregivers, Undergraduate Students, Social Work
Expanding the Curriculum with Distance Learning.
Ravaglia, Raymond; Sommer, Richard – Principal, 1999
Distance-learning programs should augment, not replace, the existing classroom. They should expand the elementary curriculum and fill gaps in traditional course offerings. Examples include advanced courses for gifted students, eliminated arts and foreign languages courses, and instruction for homebound students. Program evaluation criteria and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Distance Education
A Program to Teach House Calls for the Elderly to Fourth-Year Medical Students.
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Page, Ann E. K.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1988
A required eight-week rotation in ambulatory medicine at three clinics that included house calls by medical students is described. The students' evaluation of the curriculum provided information on the effectiveness to teaching strategies and the success of transmitting knowledge about the homebound elderly. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Family Practice (Medicine), Geriatrics
The Humanities for the Handicapped: An Expansion of Media-Based, Open Learning System.
Tachibana, Karen – 1981
The report describes field testing of an open collge project designed to adapt a collge-level media course for 19 homebound visually impaired, hearing impaired, and orthopedically disabled students. Student recruitment procedures and problems are described, as are staffing patterns of the project. Adaptation of the course, "The Art of Being…
Descriptors: College Students, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Television
THE GALENA PARK PLAN FOR MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE PUPIL IN DIFFICULTY, 1961-1962.
MCGAHAN, R.E. – 1962
PROVISIONS ARE MADE UNDER TEXAS'S STATE LAW FOR MEETING THE VARIOUS NEEDS OF THE MENTALLY RETARDED, THE ORTHOPEDICALLY HANDICAPPED, THE HOME-BOUND, AND THE ORAL-AURAL, OR VISUAL-HANDICAPPED. THE GENERAL AIM OF THE GALENA PARK SCHOOLS IS TO PREPARE THE PUPIL PHYSICALLY, MENTALLY, SOCIALLY, AND MORALLY TO TAKE HIS PLACE IN AN EVER-CHANGING, COMPLEX…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Curriculum Development, Educational Facilities Improvement, Emotional Disturbances
Technologies as Rural Special Education Problem Solvers--A Status Report and Successful Strategies.
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Helge, Doris – 1983
Rural schools can help solve their special education problems by using advanced technology to provide instructional support (computer managed instruction, satellite television, library searches, resource networks, on-line testing), instructional applications (computer assisted instruction, reading machines, mobile vans, instructional television),…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Attitudes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers