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Porter, Phyllis – Child Care Information Exchange, 2001
Describes an intergenerational care program that emphasizes "intentional intergenerational interaction" as key to planning. Details a window-divided facility design that enables a variety of elderly and young people's interactions. Illustrates mutually beneficial joint activities ranging from one-on-one (holding a baby) to group events…
Descriptors: Activities, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
Download full textDelaney, Lara; Finger, John A. – 1991
This fact sheet begins with an overview of family support programs, which includes a discussion of the premises of family support programs and the assumptions on which they are based, and a list of typical program components. The remainder of the fact sheet focuses on one type of family support program, family literacy programs. These programs…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Services, Early Childhood Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Woodward, Karla A. – 1993
The Grandpals program at Oak Hill Elementary School in Overland Park, Kansas, meets teachers' needs while providing successful intergenerational programming. The first step in developing a program like Grandpals is to determine program goals, objectives, and theme. A next step is to determine the two populations to be involved. For example, whole…
Descriptors: Aging Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Intergenerational Programs
Adams, Susan W.; Lubold, Heather S. – 1989
This report discusses an intergenerational project instituted in 1989 at the Jewish Community Center--JCCS David G. Neurman Senior Center in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania). The project is based on the idea that children and older adult immigrants could share a learning environment in order to meet specific language objectives. Project objectives and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language)
Hancock, Karen – Education Canada, 2003
In a Canadian program, adult volunteer mentors meet with elementary student mentees for an hour each week during school. An evaluation of five such school-based mentoring programs found that mentored students developed a more positive attitude towards school, achieved higher grades, and improved relationships with adults and peers. Mentors report…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Jennings, Matthew – Phi Delta Kappan, 2001
Students with behavioral or learning disabilities are important resources for their community. Through two service-learning projects (reading to elementary-school students and interviewing senior citizens), special-needs students at one New Jersey middle school gained confidence in their skills and developed a sense of pride and community…
Descriptors: Community, Intergenerational Programs, Language Arts, Learning Disabilities
Weinstein-Shr, Gail, Ed.; Quintero, Elizabeth, Ed. – 1995
Teachers' and developers' descriptions of intergenerational literacy programs for immigrants are collected here. Topics addressed include appropriate program design, the quality of intergenerational collaboration, student journals, learner-centered curriculum design, traditional and personal storytelling as a literacy approach, education and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Curriculum Design, Family Literacy
Mountainbird, Pauline – 1991
A Massachusetts family literacy project, the Northampton Family Literacy Project, is described, in which adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners enrolled in a community educational center in order to learn English as their children enrolled in a child care program at the local library. Both groups were involved in language activities,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature
National Council on the Aging, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1992
Family Friends is an intergenerational program that brings senior volunteers into the lives of children with disabilities or chronic illnesses. JobStart is a training program in which volunteers help children with disabilities who are 10 years of age or older prepare to enter the world of work. A JobStart team is formed for each child in the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Child Relationship, Career Planning, Check Lists
PDF pending restorationFiene, Richard – 1992
A multi-dimensional training program is being implemented in Pennsylvania to improve the quality of early childhood and child care programs. Training opportunities are provided for early childhood program and day care center staff, group and family home day care providers, and unregulated child care providers. The overall training plan is designed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Caregivers, Cooperative Programs, Day Care
Crites, Marsha S. – Journal of Children in Contemporary Society, 1989
Child development can be fostered through relationships between older adults and children. Children's social isolation resulting from demographic, economic, and social changes can be addressed by means of intergenerational programs. During four developmental stages from infancy to adolescence, older adults can play a significant role in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Development, Child Rearing, Children
Dittmer, Arlis – Illinois Libraries, 1998
Provides an overview and evaluation of an Illinois public library project that gave large-group workshops about the Internet and Web page construction, and encouraged intergenerational programming, new library users, and cooperation between adolescents and veterans. Provides the Web address for "Vets on the Net," a Web site for veterans.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Computer System Design, Cooperation, Design Requirements
Alachua County Schools, Gainesville, FL. – 1991
Designed for use by volunteers in the program, this handbook describes the "Rockin' Readers" program, in which senior-citizen volunteers are matched with specifically targeted at-risk children in Alachua County, Florida, who tested below their peer group in language development and reading readiness skills. The handbook notes that each…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Early Intervention, High Risk Students, Intergenerational Programs
Choonoo, John – 1993
Project Mastery was a family literacy program that served 30 adults and 40 children in its first year of operation. Participants were parents and adult siblings of present and past English-as-a-Second-Language programs and students of limited English proficiency (LEP) in kindergarten through grade 5. It was designed to support English language…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Family English Literacy
Null, Elizabeth Higgins – 2002
The Llano Grande Center for Research and Development started as an oral history experiment in two of Texas's poorest school districts. Since the 1920s, when this arid region in the southernmost tip of Texas was first transformed into the orchards and farmlands of the "Magic Valley," workers of Mexican descent have worked the land. Over…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Intergenerational Programs
