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Download full textLee, Faye C. H.; Murdock, Shelley; Paterson, Carole – 1996
In the San Francisco Bay Area (California), community agencies and organizations routinely use teenagers as mentors and teachers of peers and younger children. Despite the literature indicating that teens should derive many benefits from these roles, agency staff have observed teen teachers who appear frustrated, bored, or disengaged, or who have…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Adult Child Relationship, Community Programs
Peer reviewedBraverman, Marc T.; And Others – California Agriculture, 1994
Describes the development of Project 4-Health, a California program that recruits and trains teenagers to deliver a tobacco education program to children ages 9-12. The program was based on studies involving the social context of tobacco use, a survey of 4-H members, and randomized field trials of the prevention curriculum. (LP)
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Education
Bennett, Ruth – 1987
Computer instruction can offer particular benefits to the Indian child. Computer use emphasizes the visual facets of learning, teaches language based skills needed for higher education and careers, and provides types of instruction proven effective with Indian children, such as private self-testing and cooperative learning. The Hupa, Yurok, Karuk,…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Instructional Materials, College School Cooperation
Bossert, Steven T.; Barnett, Bruce G. – 1981
Intended for educators who wish to work with small groups of students from larger classes, this catalog describes seven common instructional grouping arrangements, and four associated concerns, revealed by a 1979-1980 survey of teachers and programs in Nevada, Utah, and northern California. The instructional grouping arrangements include (1)…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Flexible Scheduling, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Greene, Gary; And Others – 1988
This handbook contains eight generic instructional strategies for use in vocational education contexts. The strategies include: clinical teaching, collaborative approach, cooperative learning groups, direct instruction, environmental/curriculum modification, individualized instruction, task analysis, and peer or adult tutoring. For each strategy,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Classroom Environment, Cooperative Learning, Coordination
Direct linkCline, Zulmara; Necochea, Juan – Issues in Teacher Education, 2004
Second language learners continue to languish in California public schools in spite of six years of promises following passage of the controversial ballot initiative "English for the Children" (Proposition 227) to fix the education of English Language Learners (ELLs) through English-only instruction. In addition, with the development of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Cooperative Learning, Educational Change, Peer Teaching
