This document contains a program description, curriculum outlines, and evaluation of the 2-week summer preservice program (June 15-26, 1970) to train 30 teacher aides who would support teachers, allowing opportunity to personalize and individualize instruction for children. The program operation, objectives, and procedures for selecting trainees…

This document contains curriculum outlines and preliminary evaluation of the 4-week summer preservice Teacher Aide Workship to train 40 paraprofessionals to serve as classroom assistants, clerical assistants, or specialists (e.g., aides to work with speech handicapped) in elementary and secondary schools. Course objectives and content outlines are…

With the help of a consultant and the special teachers, a teacher aide provided language development work in primary and intermediate classes for educable mentally handicapped children. Speech activities and a language development kit were planned. The aide's role differed in different classes, but as the year progressed she worked more with…

This final report of the 3-year Grand Forks, North Dakota, ESEA Title III project focuses on the impact on the school district (11,500 pupils) and its instructional program of a six-school experiment in which two elementary and one junior high school were provided with one teacher aide for each six teachers. The introduction describes the…

This document contains reports of three projects in the handicapped component of the Grand Forks, North Dakota, Teacher and His Staff program supported by ESEA Title III. The first project reported is "A Pilot Study Using a Teacher Aide Employing Operant Procedures to Assist a Speech Clinician in a Public School Setting." Included is description…