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Wilmshurst, Ann – 1984
This practicum addressed the need to provide training in basic early childhood education subject areas to Head Start teachers and teacher assistants. A trainer of trainers approach was implemented because of the large number of teachers involved (approximately 1,300 in the Los Angeles County Schools Head Start grantee programs). Goals for…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Brookes, Carolyn – 1990
An early childhood resource teacher implemented a practicum intervention designed to improve the school attendance of at-risk kindergartners and first and second graders in a low-income, inner-city area in central Florida. The intervention involved the transformation of self-contained, graded classrooms into primary units comprised of multi-age…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Curriculum Development, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Elementary School Students
Harris, Noel V. – 1985
A resource teacher working at an elementary school located on a military reservation implemented an 8-week practicum intervention designed to improve the critical thinking skills of 16 third graders. A task force composed of resource and classroom teachers, a guidance counselor, a reading curriculum supervisor, a school psychologist, a principal,…
Descriptors: Aviation Education, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment
Halperin, Dora – 1985
This practicum addressed the problem of inadequate teacher preparation in the area of learning theory, content, and methodology related to mathematical instruction of children attending a private child care center in Oakland, California. The general goal of the study was to plan, implement, and evaluate a staff development program to increase…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Early Childhood Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Materials
Cohen, James A. – 1979
The purpose of this study was to develop and implement a two-year mathematics laboratory program for ninth-grade low achievers. The laboratory program was designed to raise the mathematics skills of a selected group of low-achieving ninth graders at Washington High School, a rural urban school in the South Bend Community School Corporation, South…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Educational Research, Grade 9
Forest, Robert F. – 1978
The document describes a practicum which developed a unit on critical thinking that applied Jerome Bruner's discovery-learning method and also incorporated the unit within the curricular requirements of elementary education majors at Castleton State College in Vermont. It is presented in five sections and an appendix. Section I provides…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development
