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Santa Lucia, Sister Paul Marie – 1989
Society still carries the lingering remains of the autocratic cultural mores of reward and punishment. Staff in a group home setting for children must be aware of the complexity caused by the mingling of autocratic and democratic mores. This phenomenon causes discrepancy in parenting methods. It was surmised that training the staff (N=4) at one…
Descriptors: Children, Democracy, Group Homes, Models
Strachan, Pamela – 1990
An experienced kindergarten teacher implemented a 10-week practicum intervention designed to improve the classroom management skills of 9 kindergarten teacher aides. In-service training for participants included planned workshops, observations, team activities, coaching, and evaluation. Each participant concentrated on a specific skill or area of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Intervention, Job Training, Kindergarten
Wallace, Yolanda Gayles – 1990
A volunteer program coordinator developed and implemented an 8-month practicum study that provided opportunities for interaction between 20 elderly adult tutors--residents of 2 senior citizen facilities--and 37 fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students at five elementary schools in low- and middle-class metropolitan black communities. The tutoring…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Blacks, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades
Teitz-Hornyak, Kathleen A. – 1990
A practicum study was planned and implemented by a working mother for the purpose of developing a child care resource and referral agency in an eastern metropolitan area. The objective of the practicum was to increase the number of child care referrals available to working families by 10 percent over a 10-week period. Of the 110 surveys mailed to…
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Information Services, Program Development
Innes, Ruth S. – 1990
A licensed counselor working in a privately owned mental health facility implemented a practicum study designed to improve the parenting skills and quality of family communication in families with children between 3 and 14 years of age. Practicum goals were to: (1) give parents information that would improve their parenting skills; and (2)…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Communication Skills, Family Problems, Instructional Development
Fuller, Jane A. – 1990
A prekindergarten teacher working in a private elementary day school developed and implemented a prosocial behavior program designed to improve the social behavior of prekindergarten students. The program focused on decreasing the incidence of 10 behaviors: (1) pouting; (2) hitting; (3) yelling indoors; (4) interrupting; (5) whining; (6) ignoring…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Private Schools
Howze, Kate – 1992
This practicum report describes the implementation and evaluation of a substance abuse prevention curriculum in a Florida preschool. It was expected that, as a result of the implementation of the curriculum, children would improve in their ability to identify drugs; would increase their self-esteem; and would improve their peer relations. It was…
Descriptors: Drug Education, Peer Relationship, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Pickle, Barbara – 1989
A preschool director designed and implemented a classroom safety curriculum plan to increase the safety knowledge of preschool children. Implemented for 10 weeks, the plan consisted of classroom lessons, hands on practice, and activities for music, art, and language development. Parent education articles were sent home to reinforce what the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Parent Education, Pedestrian Traffic, Poisons
Morrison, Elizabeth Hayo – 1988
This practicum addressed the problem of developing and implementing a school-based in-service model that would be facilitated and presented by the elementary school teachers who were to be instructed. A literature review led to the conclusion that successful implementation could be achieved by faculty and staff ownership of the in-service model…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Improvement
MacWright, Alicia Cox – 1985
A parent education component was planned and implemented as part of a university-based preschool program in the Department of Psychology at Rutgers-The State University. Goals of the practicum were to survey parents to identify topics of interest to them; to develop a parent education program focused on topics identified by parents; to sensitize…
Descriptors: Newsletters, Parent Attitudes, Parent Education, Preschool Education
Patterson, Joan S. – 1979
A model program was designed and implemented to effectively develop and maintain communication skills in the children of an urban K-6 school. The goals of the program were to reverse a trend in under-achievement in five academic areas, to identify and develop potential in communication skills in two targeted groups of children, to create staff…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
Download full textWimsatt-Fraim, Teresa S. – 1992
A program was conducted to improve the quality of food service through the training of 44 food and nutrition service employees in a 200-bed hospital. A 12-week quality control program was implemented to address four key areas: food temperatures, food accuracy, food quality, and dietary personnel. Learning strategies, emphasizing critical thinking…
Descriptors: Food Service, Foods Instruction, Hospital Personnel, On the Job Training
Armstrong, Mary L.; And Others – 1978
The report describes a model program designed to develop, implement, and evaluate services to health impaired children in compliance with the mandates of Public Law 94-142 (the Education for All Handicapped Children Act). The first four chapters provide an introduction, statement of the problem, research strategy, and review of the literature.…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Demonstration Programs, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Arismendi-Pardi, E. J. – 1997
A project was undertaken at California's Orange Coast College (OCC) to develop a handbook that would delineate the duties and responsibilities of department chairs at the college. To determine the appropriate design elements and content of the handbook, the relevant literature was reviewed, formative criteria were established and validated, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility, Community Colleges, Department Heads
Williams, Eunice – 1991
The low number of high school students electing to take advantage of the training available at a vocational school was addressed by implementing a program of activities intended to increase knowledge and develop critical thinking skills in decision making. The program took place in a West Florida high school with 1,819 students in grades 9-12, the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Critical Thinking, Enrollment Influences, High Schools
