ERIC Number: ED078101
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1972-Sep
Pages: 52
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Production Workshop Project, DPPF: 1971-72 Evaluation.
Kilbane, Marian; Fleming, Margaret
The Production Workshop Project was designed to promote the educational rehabilitation of selected ninth-grade students. Programs in block-scheduled academic instruction were integrated with vocational training in a Production Workshop setting. The 1971-72 Project activities served a total of 243 students--117 boys and 126 girls. Approximately 68 percent of these participants remained in the project for the entire school year. Project operations integrated changes in both the content and the organization of instruction. A key element was the involvement of students in production-oriented workshops. Work experiences for girls were developed in a combination food-and clothing laboratory. Work experience for boys utilized an industrial arts shop with modifications in equipment and materials. As a motivating element, participants in the project received 50 cents per hour for one hour per day for the work done in the project workshop. The total amount per pupil was $2.50 per week, approximately $45.00 for the semester. Class sizes were reduced with a maximum enrollemnt of 20 students per project class. In order to provide close supervision and individualized attention, a teacher's aide divided his time between the class of boys and the class of girls in each of the five schools. Academic instruction was integrated in a four-period block. (Author/JM0
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Authoring Institution: Cleveland Public Schools, OH. Div. of Research and Development.
Identifiers - Location: Ohio
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