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Download full textLove, Ruth B. – 1976
Against a background of declining student performance and fragmented programs, the Oakland (California) Unified School District reorganized its reading programs and instructional support personnel. This included reorganization of the central office, new positions, and a new department of curriculum and instruction. An instructional strategy…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Curriculum Development
Otto, Wayne – 1983
Many state certification recommendations in reading education do not clearly define "certification." This produces a number of questions, among them the following: (1) Do reading teachers who are likely to teach reading at either the secondary or elementary level need a developmental course at both levels? (2) Should there be discrete courses in…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Consultants, Reading Teachers
Thompson, Mark E. – 1982
The scientific approach with humans is usually subject to many human and environmental variables that are difficult to control. Reading behavior and reading disability are two of the most researched topics in education and psychology, yet reading research continues to abound with contradictions. Standardized tests, speed reading, and computer…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Holistic Approach, Humanism, Reading Consultants
Weisberg, Renee K. – 1982
A series of research studies on the consistency of reading specialists' diagnoses of students with reading problems have indicated that clinical agreement has been astonishingly low. To investigate which factors seem to lead to consistency in clinical diagnosis, a study was conducted based on a theory of clinical problem solving called inquiry…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Graduate Students, Higher Education
Witte, Pauline L. – 1981
Gloss, or marginal notations in a text, and other similar techniques can be used by reading specialists both as they attempt to develop meaningful content area reading programs and as they review what is already known before attempting to learn new information. For example, several social studies teachers began their gloss activities by…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Inservice Teacher Education
Beyer, Walter; Lichtenstein, Jack – 1976
Working in cooperation with reading specialists, English teachers designed a program to meet the needs of a class of seventh graders with reading disabilities. The reading specialist role was expanded from that of small consultant to include actual classroom instructor. The teaching of literature and reading skills was facilitated through the…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, English Instruction, Grade 7, Individualized Reading
Coulter, Florence C. – 1976
The background and the organization of the reading internship run by Oakland Schools (Michigan) are briefly described. The eight-week program provides training for elementary and secondary teachers from constituent school districts, which enables them to function as reading support personnel. Areas of study include reading theory and methodolgoy,…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Intermediate Administrative Units
Fitzgerald, Thomas P.; Clark, Richard M. – 1978
The reactions of participants to the presentation sessions of a staff development training program were assessed using participant questionnaires and non-verbal metabehavior estimates of participant attitudes. Fifty reading specialists and administrators participated in a two-session workshop dealing with reading material and methods. Each session…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Body Language, Inservice Teacher Education, Interaction Process Analysis
Feldmann, Shirley; And Others – 1980
Thirty-eight college students were the subjects of a study designed to examine the efficacy of training graduate reading specialists through a diagnosis simulation program versus the use of a traditional child study approach. The major task of this investigation was to compare, by way of univariate or multivariate analysis, various combinations of…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Higher Education, Information Processing, Reading Consultants
Johnstone, Judy Ramoy – 1989
A study compared the evaluations of junior and senior preservice teachers, supervising teachers, and reading specialists who observed a student's performance using the Directed Reading Thinking Activity (DRTA). Four groups of subjects participated in the study. The first group consisted of 12 elementary education juniors who had just completed a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Reading Consultants
Thompson, Richard A. – 1988
What reading consultants do varies considerably from person to person as there is variability in the role each reading consultant perceives as his or her responsibility. To assist reading consultants in prioritizing their roles to meet their constituents' needs, 113 elementary teachers enrolled in graduate reading classes at the University of…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
McKeag, Robert – 1980
In response to concerns about the adequacy of the preparation provided for reading specialists in light of the duties spelled out for them in a 1977 Wisconsin statute, a study was undertaken to obtain perceptions of the responsibilities of reading professionals from Wisconsin school administrators and reading specialists. A total of 253…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Skills, Reading Consultants
Harris, Albert J. – 1977
Current issues in reading diagnosis and remediation may be classified as political, diagnostic, and remedial. The main political issue in recent years has been the overlapping of the concepts of learning disability and reading disability and the consequent conflict of jurisdiction of reading specialists and learning disability specialists. This…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Clinical Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
Dietrich, Dorothy M. – 1977
Secondary teachers must help students to expand vocabulary skills, to understand and apply ideas in complex reading material, and to improve organizational and work-study skills. To assess reading instruction at the junior high school level in one school district, classroom observations were made of teachers of mathematics, science, social…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Inservice Teacher Education, Junior High Schools, Reading Consultants
Kutzman, Sondra K.; Rakes, Thomas A. – 1980
Teacher educators and college level instructors may use a guided procedure for training classroom teachers and reading specialists to diagnose reading disorders utilizing case studies. The procedure involves distributing a detailed case study outline to students, with all important information that should be included in the case report also…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Caseworker Approach, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education
