This article is the introduction, and excerpts from the book "Handbook of Suggestions for Teachers," which was written for teachers of Canadian immigrants. It suggests ways in which the host society can create a favorable environment for learning for the new student. (CFM)

Interest in home-school communication has paid little attention, to date, to the experiences of English as a second language (ESL) parents. This article examines recent Chinese immigrant parents' and Canadian teachers' perspectives of ESL learning presented at Parents' Night. On the basis of observations of three annual Parents' Nights, interviews…

Medical students undergoing a stressful process of adjustment, especially in their first year of studies, to the environment of medical school and hospital wards with their stringent requirements, are subject to a personal and professional identity crisis. Possible maladjustments may have profoundly negative affects on their studies and their…

This document was developed to provide principals and teachers with an understanding of the concept and process of student transition to secondary school and to suggest creative ways which teachers have found that will enable educators to facilitate students' transition into and through some of the early secondary grades. The monograph is…

A short history of the establishment of kindergartens in British Columbia prefaces this study of 22,000 public school children in grades one, two, and three (who had or had not attended kindergarten) in School District 39 of Vancouver and District 61 of Victoria. The effect of kindergarten attendance was evaluated as it related to (1) report card…

Describes a small group intervention strategy for transient children that involves both discussion and the use of drawing. The group sessions focus on getting to know each other, moving, becoming familiar with the school, getting to know classmates, sharing feelings, and accepting changes. (Author/RC)

Interviews with 207 Soviet immigrant adolescents reveal the adjustment difficulties they have in Canadian schools because of the different school system and changes in their socioeconomic status. The school and community must cooperate in facilitating the adaption of these students to the educational system. (PMJ)

This study examined perceptions of preparedness for post-secondary education in the province of Ontario. Participants were 272 university students enrolled in the first year of a four-or five-year concurrent teacher education program and represented two distinctive groups: (a) entrants who had completed the old five-year Ontario Academic Credit…

This paper begins by reviewing evidence nationally, provincially, and locally that many students drop out of secondary school; that failure rates in core subjects in grades 9 and 10 in Ontario are high; and that ninth graders in Ontario reported being concerned about their school progress, their level of preparation and readiness for high school,…

Rated the adjustment of 129 newly mainstreamed learning disabled, emotionally disturbed, and mildly developmentally disabled pupils. While the teachers were, in general, very satisfied with the pupils' progress in both academic and behavioral areas, satisfaction declined after grade six. IQ data did not predict satisfactory adjustment. (JAC)

A decade of research on immersion programs in Ontario is synthesized. The immersion programs studied over this period include three major alternatives: early total French immersion, early partial French immersion, and late partial French immersion. The programs all serve an English speaking students population, devote at least one half of each…

Examined teachers in the process of integrating children with special needs into childcare programs in Ontario, Canada. Twenty-four teachers in seven childcare centers were interviewed. Found an extant model for the integration of children with special needs, and that both child-centered and teacher-centered strategies were used to make this…

Two Quebec studies of kindergarten students who also attended school-based day care programs examined the environments provided by both services, continuity or discontinuity of environments as related to child development and adjustment, and the extent of communication and collaboration between educators in the two services. (SV)

Surveys of York University (Ontario) freshmen, 1,093 at entry and 1,129 at midyear, found that minority students came from more disadvantaged families than nonminority students. However, minority freshman year experiences were not all negative, and majority student experiences were not all positive. In general, freshman year outcomes were not…

Client and counselor ratings of student distress were compared with MMPI-2 College Maladjustment (Mt) scale (Butcher, et al; 1989) score for 78 Canadian undergraduate students seeking counseling. Mt scores were consistent with subjective ratings of problem severity and accounted for more variance in client ratings of social and general functioning…