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Download full textLeidner, Henry Robert – 1993
Due to changes in agriculture and the resulting decline in numbers of migrant families, many migrant programs must redefine job responsibilities and retrain and reassign migrant support personnel. This practicum was aimed at retraining migrant educational and health support personnel in the job skills necessary to move into available Chapter 1…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Dislocated Workers, Elementary Secondary Education, Mentors
Taylor, Ralph – 1994
This practicum developed a program to enhance the job performance of support personnel (behavior modification technicians) who work with students having conduct disorders. The behavior modification technicians provided building-level support for principals and teachers working with black adolescents from socially deprived backgrounds. Inservice…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Behavioral Objectives, Inservice Education
Shuff, David – 1990
The practicum was designed to enhance career education/exploration opportunities in the junior high school. Services at the Career Center originally planned for the high school involved in this practicum were discountinued 2 years earlier due to a education/exploration termination of funds and failure to document program goals. The practicum's…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
Barry, Eleanor – 1987
It was noted that paraprofessional child caregivers working with economically disadvantaged children did not base instructional choices on data derived from direct observations. As a result, this practicum was implemented to improve the observation and recording skills of five caregivers serving as group leaders of day care workers. Centers…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Child Caregivers, Classroom Observation Techniques, Day Care
Barresi, Dominick – 1993
This practicum was designed to train special education teachers and paraprofessionals at a private, special education facility in ways to identify precursor behaviors and antecedent events eliciting maladaptive behaviors in children with developmental disorders and behavior disorders. Staff were given five inservice sessions (totalling 10 hours)…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Classroom Techniques
Kissire, Pat – 1990
This practicum was designed to: improve the skills of personnel working with students with severe and/or profound handicaps in junior high school; to improve staff development; and to increase the consistency of services offered in a community-based instruction program for K-12. A needs assessment survey of 10 staff members determined the level of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Independent Study, Individual Instruction
PDF pending restorationPillow, Gary L. – 1996
This practicum involved the development and delivery of a three semester hour community college course for five speech-language pathology (SLP) support personnel assisting in a preschool setting. The practicum addressed the specific problem that support personnel did not demonstrate independent and effective instructional strategies when…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Strategies, Inservice Education, Introductory Courses
Kreitzman, Natalie R. – 1988
The goals of this practicum were to: (1) create more suitable and stimulating structured environments that would engage severely/profoundly handicapped children in positive play situations in the classroom and in the home, and (2) teach parents and caregivers how to identify age appropriate and developmentally appropriate playthings. Inservice…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Tomlinson, Ancelyn E. – 1987
Conducted in a school serving mainly Hispanic children, this practicum implemented an intervention designed to increase parents' involvement in the learning activities of their children. Practicum goals were to: (1) increase parents' attendance at Parent Teacher Association (PTA) meetings; (2) increase parents' attendance at parent-teacher…
Descriptors: Attendance, Cooperative Planning, Hispanic Americans, Homework
