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The Career Advancement Program: A System for Providing Social Work Education in Rural Areas
Dodd, Nancy; And Others – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1978
Describing an alternative approach to the delivery of educational services aimed at social work practitioners in rural areas, this article details a Montana educational delivery system that incorporated isolated field experience with opportunities for student interaction and extensive written and phone communication between the educational staff…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Higher Education, Models, Nontraditional Education
Strategies to Affect Student Sensory Awareness of the Environment in a Rural Schools Setting: Grade Seven through Grade Twelve.
Peters, Richard O. – 1976
Describing the Union 58 Experimental Schools Program (ESP) in northern, rural New Hampshire, this curriculum guide presents the concept of "proximity congruency" as a means for developing secondary level student sensory awareness of the environment in outdoor and/or environmental education procedures. Proximity congruency is defined as a…
Descriptors: Activities, Concept Formation, Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives
Special Education Professional Development Schools: Why Do Candidates Choose to Participate?
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Esposito, Mary C.; Berlin, Dawn H.; Lal, Shirley – Journal of the National Association for Alternative Certification, 2007
Research findings demonstrate that PDSs effectively prepare general education teachers and lead to increased student academic outcomes. Previous studies within the extant literature have investigated the application of the PDS model with traditional credential candidates. Acute teacher shortages and the implementation of alternative credential…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Special Education, Alternative Teacher Certification, Models
Strategies to Affect Student Sensory Awareness of the Environment in a Rural Schools Setting: Grade Four through Grade Six.
Peters, Richard O. – 1976
Describing the Union 58 Experimental Schools Program (ESP) in northern, rural New Hampshire, this curriculum guide presents the concept of "proximity congruency" as a means for developing elementary level (grades four through six) student sensory awareness of the environment in outdoor and/or environmental education procedures. Proximity…
Descriptors: Activities, Concept Formation, Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives