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Kinzer, Charles K. – Language Arts, 2010
This article (1) argues that literacy is being redefined as a result of the use of digital media, and (2) provides suggestions for policy makers, budget decision-makers, teachers, researchers, and interested others about literacy and language arts standards, assessment, and teaching related to "new literacies," including: (a) Maximize the…
Descriptors: Inservice Education, Language Arts, Privacy, Literacy
Box, Gloria; Cady, Dorothy – 1968
Misconceptions regarding the reading abilities of Kingston, Jamaica, junior high school students are discussed. Preliminary planning procedures, details of the operational plan for the project classes, and a description of diagnostic studies, methods, and materials used are presented. Particular problems encountered; summaries of results and…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Grade 7, Inservice Education, Reading Skills
Hammond School City, IN. – 1970
An ESEA/Title III program designed to expand services to remedial readers through the use of paraprofessional personnel is described. The greater part of the report explains the need for such a program, selection and training of paraprofessionals, materials, project implementation, parental involvement, and inservice training of the professional…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Inservice Education
Mulcahy, Robert; And Others – 1993
The Cognitive Education Project conducted a 3-year longitudinal evaluation of two cognitive education programs that were aimed at teaching thinking skills. The critical difference between the two experimental programs was that one, Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment (IE) method, was taught out of curricular content, while the other, the…
Descriptors: Administrators, Cognitive Processes, Criteria, Elementary Education
Renaud, Albert J. – 1976
This guidebook reports the results of a three-year study involving the use of paraprofessionals with mathematics students in the La Mesa-Spring Valley School District (California), and outlines a program for initiating a mathematics paraprofessional program. Over 1200 students in grades 4-7 participated in this project to determine the effects of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary School Mathematics, Evaluation Methods, Grade 7
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1987
The New Teachers Mathematics Staff Development Program for grades 7 through 9 is a combination of content and methodology. Teachers focus their attention on content, lesson planning, questioning, homework, and testing. This volume contains materials for eight workshop sessions. Sessions included are: (1) An Introduction to the New York City School…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Critical Thinking, Educational Testing, Grade 7