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Forces That Shape Coaches' Classroom Access
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Evthokia Stephanie Saclarides; Jen Munson – Learning Professional, 2024
For coaches, access to classrooms isn't straightforward and is far from guaranteed. Access is a prerequisite for coaching, yet there are many barriers beyond a coach's control, making their job difficult to impossible. In this article, the authors detail how five administrative and structural forces shaped coaches' access to teachers' classrooms.…
Descriptors: Tutor Training, Tutors, Tutoring, Tutorial Programs
Screencast-Delivered Professional Development Targeting Teachers' Self-Efficacy and Beginning-of-the-Year Classroom Management Practices
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Garwood, Justin D.; Harris, Alene H. – Australasian Journal of Special and Inclusive Education, 2020
Classroom management remains one of the greatest challenges for teachers. In this study, with 52 general and special education teachers, we examined the effectiveness of a screencast-delivered professional development program focused on classroom management practices in the first 3 days of school. Results suggest that after participating in the…
Descriptors: Tutorial Programs, Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Learning, Faculty Development
The Effectiveness of Cross-Age Tutoring with Truant, Junior High School Students with Learning Disabilities.
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Lazerson, David B.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
This study determined the effects of using truant and tardy junior high school learning-disabled students as tutors for younger learning-disabled pupils. After six weeks of tutoring, most of the 16 tutors showed a significant increase toward an internal orientation of locus of control and a decrease in truant/tardy behaviors. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classroom Techniques, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education
The Effectiveness of Peer Tutoring in Further and Higher Education: A Typology and Review of the Literature.
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Topping, K. J. – Higher Education, 1996
Different forms of peer tutoring within college and universities are described and compared for effectiveness, including cross-year and same-year small-group, individualized, supplemental, diadic, reciprocal, fixed-role, writing process, and distance tutoring. Three methods are found to be widely used, demonstrated effective, and meriting expanded…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Cross Age Teaching
Valued Youth Program: Dropout Prevention Strategies for At-Risk Youth.
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Robledo Montecel, Maria; And Others – 1994
A federal program designed to reduce dropout rates in middle schools among limited-English-proficient (LEP) students is described. The program trains LEP middle school students at risk of dropping out as tutors for elementary school children. A demonstration project trained 101 Hispanic student tutors in two Texas school districts. Evaluation of…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students
Multiple Option Instructional Program for Adult High School Completers.
Rickards, Joseph M. – 1983
A program was developed to train community school administrators in the Garfield School District (Panguitch, Utah) in the skills, techniques, and understandings essential for implementing and evaluating a successful multiple-option instructional program for adult basic and adult high school students. The need for the program was determined because…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students