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Strickland, Dorothy S.; And Others – 1987
Noting that the proliferation of computers in the schools requires teachers to know the best ways to use them, this book shows how the computer can be used in a reading and language arts curriculum as tool, tutor, and tutee with currently available software. Chapter one defines the reading process in terms of its relationship to background…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Software, Copyrights
Cherne, Ferne; And Others – 1985
The Student Tracking System (STS) at San Antonio College is designed to increase retention of high risk students, and primarily students enrolled in developmental education courses. In addition to identifying students experiencing difficulty in the classroom, STS alerts educational support services personnel to these students, provides a system of…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Ancillary School Services, Basic Skills, College Students
Download full textDittmer, Allan; And Others – 1988
The subject of this panel presentation was a collaborative effort to improve writing instruction around the state of Kentucky, which resulted in the funding of several National Writing Project sites, regional workshops, and a competitive grants program to encourage middle and high school classroom teachers to develop innovative writing projects in…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Grants, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutional Cooperation
Hakanson, Edward E., Ed.; Gunderson, Doris V., Ed. – 1986
This guide was developed to assist volunteers in tutoring adult readers who read below the ninth-grade level. The following topics are discussed in the guide in either narrative or question-and-answer format: getting started as a tutor, who are the clients, getting acquainted, tutoring procedures, and teaching decoding skills. Procedures for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Students
Okawa, Gail Y. – 1988
The writing center is a logical setting for assisting the culturally dissonant student. Although the education of ethnic minority youth is one of the major tasks confronting American society and public higher education, teaching methods remain oriented to the values of a predominantly white middle class population. As a result, non-traditional…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Ottoson, Gerald; And Others – 1985
This guide is intended to acquaint literacy tutors with the techniques of tutoring small groups of learners enrolled in a basic reading program. The first chapter compares one-on-one and small group instruction. Chapter 2 covers the following aspects of organizing a group: interviewing; adding people to established groups; and confirming the first…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Beginning Reading
Gillfillan, Nancy M. – 1987
Via an LSCA (Library Services and Construction Act) Title VI Library Literacy grant for fiscal year 1986, the Dixon (Illinois) Public Library expanded its involvement in the literacy effort. Additional rooms were made available for tutoring, materials and equipment for literacy students and books and equipment for literacy tutors were provided,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Annotated Bibliographies, Audiovisual Aids, Courseware
Anderson, Betty Marie; And Others – 1989
The Academic Skills Center at Black Hills State University provides a peer assistance program comprising both individual tutoring in classes offered in each academic division and credit classes in study skills. The goal of the Center is to respond effectively and quickly to individual educational needs of students and faculty through a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, College Students, Cooperative Learning
Report on the Ethnic Minority at the University of Utah with a Specific Look at the Health Sciences.
Martinez, Luciano S. – 1978
Although the Utah State Board of Education estimates that approximately 10% of the minority high school graduates enter post-secondary educational institutions, the University of Utah registration statistics indicate that only 1% complete requirements for a baccalaureate degree. Of the estimated 2,000 minorities enrolled in Utah's colleges and…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Black Students, College Admission
Guinazzo, Leonora – 1975
Several innovative language programs currently offered at some junior colleges were described at a panel discussion. Vancouver City College offers a special course for drama students, which teaches pronunciation and foreign accents in English. Clackamas Community College offers a secretarial course in Spanish or German, and other interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Business Education, College Language Programs, Community Colleges, Conversational Language Courses
Sidel, Celia Marie McCullough – 1980
Holistic educational advancement programs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, that are designed to develop the potential of underprepared and disadvantaged students are considered. Obstacles to success that might confront disadvantaged students include problems in adjustment to university life, loneliness, and negative self-concept. It is…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Ancillary School Services, College Students, Educationally Disadvantaged
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Project on Utilization of Inservice Education R & D Outcomes. – 1977
The nine modules in the program described here are designed to enhance the professional competency of teachers interested in learning how to use instructional strategies to promote individualized instruction. The approximate time required for completion of this competency based program is 42 hours. A module instructor is needed as a resource…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Competency Based Teacher Education, Educational Strategies, Individualized Instruction
Moran, Charles – 1980
In a summer institute, secondary school writing teachers improved their teaching and writing skills through teaching writing by the direct method and through participating in weekly writing tutorials. Too often, writing is taught through such indirect methods as work with grammars, rhetorics, and heuristics, which seem more attractive to teachers…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Expository Writing, Feedback, Higher Education
TANNENBAUM, ABRAHAM J. – 1967
TO RAISE THE LITERACY LEVELS OF DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN THROUGH THE USE OF INDIGENOUS NONPROFESSIONALS IN A HOME-BASED TUTORING PROGRAM THE SUPPLEMENTARY TEACHING ASSISTANCE IN READING (STAR) PROGRAM OFFERED READING READINESS INSTRUCTION TO 490 FIRST-GRADE CHILDREN OF LOWER-CLASS PUERTO RICAN ORIGIN. MONOLINGUAL AND BILINGUAL NONPROFESSIONALS…
Descriptors: After School Education, Control Groups, Disadvantaged Youth, Experimental Groups
Baylis, Clifford A., Jr. – 1979
A two-year project was funded at the Community College of Allegheny County to develop a model strategy for eliminating math anxiety and increasing basic mathematics skills in women students. Part of the rationale for the project was to combat the sex-role stereotypes that have traditionally tracked women away from math- and/or science-oriented…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Counseling
