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Kaden, Bonnie – Educ Screen Audiovisual Guide, 1970
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Instruction, Educational Improvement, Learning Resources Centers
Peer reviewedMillward, Robert E. – Educational Leadership, 1999
A visit to Ketchikan, Alaska, reveals a floating, one-teacher logging-camp school that uses multiage grouping and interdisciplinary teaching. There are 10 students. The school gym and playground, bunkhouse, fuel tanks, mess hall, and students' homes bob up and down and are often moved to other sites. (MLH)
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Mixed Age Grouping, Nontraditional Education, One Teacher Schools
Blackwood, Lance C. – 1987
The purpose of this booklet is to give beginning or first-year teachers in rural Alaskan one- or two-teacher schools some practical, effective, and useful suggestions and guidance in their teaching and living situations. Those individuals who are currently training and studying to be teachers in rural Alaska might also benefit from the…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Experience, Multigraded Classes
Silvis, Helen – Northwest Education, 2000
Information technology offers advantages to small rural schools: access to courses not locally available, opportunities for collaborative work with other schools, and access to professional development courses. Federal money can help disadvantaged rural schools afford the technology, but the teacher must integrate good practices with technology to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Uses in Education, Disadvantaged, Educational Practices
Download full textWolfe, Patricia, Ed.; And Others – 1990
In this collection, nine master teachers with extensive experience in small, rural Alaska schools describe classroom management techniques that have proven effective in their multigraded classrooms. Over half the document consists of one paper, the last in the volume, entitled "More like a School Family than Just a Teacher and His or Her…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Class Organization, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Kleinfeld, Judith; McDiarmid, G. Williamson – 1983
Because rural Alaska educators were skeptical of the applicability to their teaching situations of various educational research results, researchers randomly surveyed rural Alaskan teachers to provide background information for the Rural Effective Schools Project and for educators who want to help rural schools increase their effectiveness. Three…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Achievement, Alaska Natives
Madenwald, Abbie Morgan – 1992
This book relates the experiences of Abbie Morgan, who with her husband Ed, moved to the Alaskan village of Kulukak in 1931. Abbie accepted an assignment from the United States government to be the village teacher while her husband was appointed to provide health care for the village population and monitor the area's reindeer herd. The village of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education
Johnson, Marilyn Kay; And Others – 1983
The geographic, enviornmental, and demographic conditions in Alaska create extreme difficulties for rural small school teachers who must cope with students with abilities ranging from gifted to retarded. Mainstreaming is taken for granted in Alaska where program development to aid rural teachers in providing special education services to their…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Centralization, Delivery Systems
Foght, H. W. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
This bulletin was prepared to indicate recent progress in rural life and education as disclosed by the educational exhibits at the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915. The discussion includes (1) the general phases of progress in rural education, and (2) advancement in its more specific agricultural phases. Little attempt has been made to present…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, United States History, State Colleges, Private Agencies
