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Salabarria, Elina – 1982
A practicum program using art activities to help eight Hispanic immigrant kindergarten children learn English was developed and implemented over a period of 10 weeks. Rather than relying on one learning mode, program designers used activities to stimulate visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile senses in order to teach color, relative length,…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Classroom Research, Concept Formation, Hispanic Americans
Coltman, Sharon Jane G. – 1987
This practicum implemented a 13-week multisensory-based unit of study designed to assist the 25 first grade students in the target population in developing good citizenship. Opportunity for the students to glean an understand that sharing and caring, and interdependence, the major components of good citizenship, are universal necessities was…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Interrelationships
Yeckes, Shelley – 1987
Six learning-disabled second-grade resource room students with auditory deficits had poor listening skills that inhibited their attention to directions and their accurate completion of assignments. Using a curriculum which incorporated visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities, the practicum project encouraged and motivated the children and…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Modification, Grade 2
Houghton, Brenda L. – 1990
A 10-week practicum intervention was designed to improve second graders' spelling skills. A target group of five students who had exhibited difficulty in staying on-task and were performing a half-year below grade level was selected. Practicum goals were that 60 percent of target children would: (1) score at least 80 percent on spelling tests in…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Wills, Linda – 1990
For this practicum, a program of multimedia peer dramatic presentations was developed to improve the vocabulary skills of middle school students. Each week for 10 weeks a target group of 18 randomly selected students viewed 5 short video skits (produced by broadcast arts students) which were designed to introduce and define new vocabulary terms;…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Learning Processes
Wolf, Russell Murray – 1981
A reading program was devised to affect gains in reading for eighth grade students who had both perceptual and reading deficiencies. The program was divided into two phases, the first consisting of visual-motor-perceptual training conducted three times a week for twelve weeks, and the second composed of individualized reading instruction five…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities
