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Adger, Susan – 1995
Project Challenge is a unit of Project Playpen, Inc., in Pinellas County, Florida, which serves children from birth to age 5 who attend child care programs and display mild to moderate degrees of emotional challenge. This program guide describes the activities, structures, and design of Project Challenge to meet the needs of child care for working…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Rearing, Day Care, Day Care Centers
Norris, Joye A.; Kennington, Paddy – 1992
This book is intended to assist literacy program administrators, coordinators, instructors, and volunteers in the design and implementation of literacy programs for homeless adults. Chapter 1 discusses barriers to instruction when serving homeless adults, including shelter environment, impermanence of location and opportunity, and the effects of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Adults
Krajnc, Ana; Mrmak, Ilija – 1978
Focusing on adult education in Yugoslavia, this book is part of the series on adult education in Europe. The first of eight sections, traces historical development of adult education in Yugoslavia beginning with the second half of the nineteenth century and focusing on promotion of political awareness and socio-political education of the working…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Educational Development
Parke, Beverly N. – 2003
This book presents 65 programs that are readily available in most school districts and communities and assesses each program's potential for serving the needs of talented students, based on levels of content acceleration, in-depth topic immersion, and interest exploration. The book begins by discussing hidden programs that are already in schools…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities, Gifted
Miller, Andrew; And Others – 1991
This book on work experience programs in the United Kingdom begins with "History and Policy Context" (Ian Jamieson, Andrew Miller), which reviews the development of work experience in the United Kingdom, considers the current policy framework, and poses possible future scenarios. "The Concept of Work Experience" (A. G. Watts)…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Employer Attitudes, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Fruchter, Norm; And Others – 1992
This book presents findings of a study that identified and analyzed 18 recently developed programs or reform efforts in the United States that stress effective parental involvement. Chapter 1 provides a review of education literature and research on parent involvement from 1945 to 1985 and situates newly emerging efforts within the current climate…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship, Low Income
Witmer, Judith T.; Anderson, Carolyn S. – 1994
A great deal has been said and written about the importance of giving students the opportunity to provide service to others. This book is designed to provide educators with a "crash course" in how to start or repair such a program in their schools or districts. Following the introduction, chapter 1 defines service learning and explores its…
Descriptors: High Schools, Human Resources, Human Services, Program Design
Farrell, Pamela B., Ed. – 1989
Focusing on high school writing centers, this collection of essays discusses a variety of issues associated with the writing center, including the process of securing the principal's support, setting goals, working out physical arrangements, training tutors and professional staff, fostering student participation, and record keeping. Essays and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College School Cooperation, Computer Assisted Instruction, High School Students
Boschee, Floyd; Beyer, Bonnie M.; Engelking, Jeri L.; Boschee, Marlys Ann – 1997
This textbook provides a comprehensive look at the vast knowledge base supporting special and compensatory education. Each chapter begins with a context and concludes with a section on the school administrator's role in promoting and leading others in each of the special and compensatory programs. Chapters include: (1) "Special Education," which…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Bilingual Education, Compensatory Education, Disabilities
Gysbers, Norman C.; Henderson, Patricia – 2000
This expanded third edition presents the authors' widely used K-12 model for planning, designing, implementing, evaluating, and enhancing content-based guidance programs. A comprehensive organizational framework useful for both reforming and establishing new guidance programs, and for improving existing programs, is provided. This edition offers…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Comprehensive Guidance, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidance Personnel
Wilbur, Franklin P.; Chapman, David W. – 1978
This monograph was written to apprise high school and college administrators of new educational opportunities for high school students. Chapter 1 briefly reviews the history of poor curriculum coordination between high schools and colleges and considers the educational problems caused by this discontinuity. The chapter concludes with a brief…
Descriptors: Administrators, Articulation (Education), Bibliographies, College Bound Students
Weddington, Doris – 1974
Although deeply concerned, community college faculty often have not been prepared through preservice education or previous teaching experiences to teach adult students with the variety of needs and orientations now characteristic of the community college population. This paper proposes a total staff development program involving a partnership…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutional Cooperation
Hanley, Janet; And Others – 1972
The National Humanities Faculty working papers collected in this document consider the process of curriculum development and approaches in curriculum presentation. Janet Hanley's "Success or Failure in Curriculum Development: Six Ways to Know" provides a set of review questions for curriculum developers to help insure a successful course. A. D.…
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment, Educational Environment
Hesmondhalgh, Matthew; Breakey, Christine – 2001
Based on pioneering work at a school in Sheffield, England, this book explores the universal issues of access and inclusion in employment and education for children and young people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). It describes the challenges educators faced in establishing and running an integrated resource room for children with ASD within…
Descriptors: Autism, Career Education, Curriculum Design, Daily Living Skills
Tindall, Judith A. – 1995
The goal of this book is to provide a program designed to teach peer helping professionals a method and rationale for training peer helpers. Peer helping programs are a major delivery system of affective education or deliberate psychological education. Peer helping programs can provide prevention, intervention, and support systems for people.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Counseling Techniques, Counselor Training, Educational Change
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