Teacher educators simultaneously support and develop pre-service and in-service teachers. Using a situated approach, this qualitative study explored the coaching styles of graduate students who served as coaches to pre-service teachers tutoring in a university reading clinic. The study analyzed written reflections and faculty member observations.…

This study uses activity theory to examine collaboration between graduate students (in-service teachers) serving as literacy coaches and undergraduate students (pre-service teachers) functioning as tutors in a university reading clinic. The participants tutored students in grades first through sixth for seven weeks. The purpose of the study was to…

My purpose in this collective case study was to identify ways in which teacher education, and coaching specifically, supports teacher change. I was particularly interested in considering what types of feedback are best at what times in the teacher education process. I investigated how coaching and other teacher education processes support…

THE JAMESVILLE-DEWITT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AND THE READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS CENTER, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, JOINTLY ESTABLISHED A DEMONSTRATION CENTER AT JAMESVILLE-DEWITT FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPROVING READING INSTRUCTION IN GRADES SEVEN THROUGH 12. THE CENTER OPERATED FROM SEPTEMBER 1963 THROUGH JUNE 1966 UNDER THE SPONSORSHIP OF THE PROJECT…

The development of the Maine Township (Illinois) Diagnostic and Remedial Learning Centers, a Title III/ESEA project, is described. The remedial learning centers, located in three elementary school districts and in one high school district, are termed model programs because they are designed to treat pupils in that one school. Each learning center…

The Supplementary Education Center of Worcester, Massachusetts, a Title III project, is a reading clinic designed to help seriously retarded readers. Its objectives are to provide a systematic diagnostic system, an individualized instructional program, a continuing evaluation of reading and instructional materials, and a training ground for…

With some 550 different reading materials to pick from, Rockland County (NY) teachers are eager shoppers at their Learning Center. (Author)

THE INDIANA READING QUARTERLY AIMS TO PROVIDE A COMMUNICATION LINK WITH THE VARIOUS LOCAL COUNCILS SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE STATE. MOST OF THE ARTICLES SHOULD INTEREST INDIANA'S CLASSROOM TEACHERS, SINCE THE JOURNAL'S MAJOR FOCUS IS READING INSTRUCTION IN INDIANA. MOST OF THE ARTICLES WILL BE WRITTEN BY EDUCATORS IN INDIANA. VOLUME A OF THE…

Through cooperation with Valparaiso University, schools in northwest Indiana provided specialized personnel to assist the disabled reader through diagnosis and prescriptive recommendations and to assist teachers with the improvement of reading instruction. The project included the following programs: (1) the Northwest Indiana Elementary and…

The effects of a model resource program on the reading skills of handicapped children were assessed in comparisons between handicapped students who participated in the model program and similar students who participated in the resource center program before the model was implemented. Reading skills were assessed at the beginning and end of the…

THE METHODS AND MATERIALS USED BY THE NORTH CAROLINA ADVANCEMENT SCHOOL FOR TEACHING REMEDIAL AND CORRECTIVE READING TO UNDERACHIEVING EIGHTH-GRADE BOYS ARE DESCRIBED. THE AUTHORS BELIEVE THE PATTERN OF DIAGNOSIS, GROUPING, INSTRUCTION, ASSESSMENT, AND REGROUPING IS CENTRAL TO DETERMINING THE CAUSES OF POOR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG STUDENTS OF…

The Reading Center at Lakewood High School has several major components: a developmental reading program, a remedial program, a program of reading for new Americans, and the inservice training of teachers. Each of these components is briefly described. (AA)

Courses in remedial and corrective reading in Gary, Indiana, middle schools are examined in this paper. The basic reading skills test, which examines 20 areas of reading skill, is administered initially to all entering seventh grade students. Students who score below 50% on the test or have instructional reading levels below 4.0 are placed in…

THIS PROPOSAL OUTLINES THE SPECIAL OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES OF A COMPREHENSIVE CLINICAL, REMEDIAL, CORRECTIVE, AND DEVELOPMENTAL READING PROGRAM IN A PHOENIX, ARIZONA, HIGH SCHOOL WITH A DISADVANTAGED STUDENT POPULATION. THE SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM FOR EACH GRADE LEVEL ARE SEPARATELY DISCUSSED. PART OF THE PROGRAM WILL BE AN ELECTIVE…