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Improving Struggling Readers' Early Literacy Skills through a Tier 2 Professional Development Program for Rural Classroom Teachers: The Targeted Reading Intervention
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Vernon-Feagans, Lynne; Bratsch-Hines, Mary; Varghese, Cheryl; Cutrer, Elizabeth A.; Garwood, Justin D. – Elementary School Journal, 2018
This article reports the results of a randomized controlled trial that replicated and extended research on the Targeted Reading Intervention (TRI), a professional development program for kindergarten and first-grade teachers in low-wealth rural schools that helps enhance literacy skills of struggling readers. In weekly webcam coaching sessions,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Reading Teachers, Rural Schools, Reading Instruction
One Teacher-One Child: Learning Together
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Costello, Joan; Martin, Jacqueline – Elementary School Journal, 1972
Paper describes some experiences with teachers and children who engaged in one-to-one teaching and learning situations. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Experiments, Individual Instruction, Preschool Children
High-School Students as Reading Instructors
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Richardson, Donald C.; Havlicek, Larry L. – Elementary School Journal, 1975
This study demonstrated that 49 teen-age high school tutors, under the guidance and assistance of competent reading consultants, could bring about gains in the reading achievement of 215 elementary school children reading at least one year below their grade level. (CS)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, High School Students, Individual Instruction, Reading Achievement
Education for Competence
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Dillon, Stephen V.; Franks, David D. – Elementary School Journal, 1973
Open education classes for elementary school children are designed to develop personal competence. Decision making is emphasized as students contract for their own education. (ST)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Competence, Decision Making
Career Development in the Elementary School: A Rationale
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Halverson, Paul M. – Elementary School Journal, 1974
Defines the need for a more vocationally-oriented elementary school curriculum. Several principles and propositions concerning the implementation of career education programs are presented and discussed under the following categories: educational objectives, behavioral objectives, curriculum development, student experiences, teacher role, learning…
Descriptors: Career Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Elementary School Students
An Experimental Study of Effective Teaching in First-Grade Reading Groups.
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Anderson, Linda M.; And Others – Elementary School Journal, 1979
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Experimental Groups