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Henjum, Arnold E. – 1977
Described is the West Central Minnesota Institute for Creative Study, developed by a group of rural high schools to provide a summer enrichment program for gifted and talented youth. It is noted that the program was designed to bring together outstanding students, teachers, facilities, and materials in an attempt to expand and strengthen the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Curriculum Enrichment, Enrichment Activities, Exceptional Child Education
Download full textFORDYCE, DOROTHY W. – 1967
TEACHER-PARTICIPANTS IN A WORKSHOP OF THE 1965 NDEA ENGLISH INSTITUTE AT CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY RECOGNIZED COMPOSITION AS THE MOST PROBLEMATIC AREA OF ENGLISH TEACHING. THEY IDENTIFIED LACK OF THOROUGH PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION IN TEACHING COMPOSITION AS THE PRIMARY REASON FOR ITS RELATIVE NEGLECT BY TEACHERS. HIGH STUDENT-TEACHER RATIO,…
Descriptors: English Instruction, High Schools, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
Cavaco, Gilbert R. – 1969
This paper provides a survey of the field of the teaching of Portuguese as of 1969 based on material gathered by the author for the Luso-Brazilian Studies Survey. A general increase in enrollment and in the number of institutions teaching Portuguese on all levels of education is noted. Nineteen elementary schools, 44 high schools and an estimated…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, College Entrance Examinations, College Instruction, FLES
Illinois State Univ., Normal. Dept. of Sociology - Anthropology. – 1973
The 6-week summer institute program provided 56 high achieving secondary school students with exposure to the social science disciplines. The major objectives of the training program were as follows: 1) to provide a combination of unique social experiences to high ability students which would be sufficiently challenging to motivate them toward…
Descriptors: Acceleration, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Course Organization
Kennedy, Wallace; Hols, Marge – 1971
After two years of planning, the Minneapolis Schools began a unique Urban Arts Program during 1970-71, funded under Title III of the Elementary Secondary Education Act. Urban Arts is an arts school without walls for junior and senior high school students who leave their home schools part of every day during school hours to study with professional…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Teachers, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development
New York Friends Group, Inc., New York. Center for War/Peace Studies. – 1970
This report provides an overview of the purposes, participants, content, and evaluation of a four-week workshop. The purposes of the workshop were to: 1) present an introduction to the concepts conflict, violence, and interdependence; 2) develop an awareness of the need for value analysis in the classroom; 3) teach techniques and theory of value…
Descriptors: Conflict, Curriculum Development, Fundamental Concepts, International Education
Peer reviewedPouwels, Joel Bollinger – Foreign Language Annals, 1988
Describes the "International Potpourri" two-week residential summer enrichment program for gifted and talented ninth and tenth grade students. The program combined the best elements of foreign language camps and international festivals through a variety of activities including beginning conversation, songs, dances, crafts and food…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, French, German, Gifted
Miller, Larry E.; And Others – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1985
This issue focuses upon planning, organization, and time management. Articles discuss program goals, saving failing programs, vocational agriculture program planning under the Perkins Act, program innovation, reviewing the focus of agribusiness education, the changing focus of vocational agriculture at one high school, time management for summer…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Educational Innovation, Educational Planning
Peer reviewedJackson, Linda S.; Whitten, Ann Y. – Community/Junior College Quarterly of Research and Practice, 1986
Assesses the effectiveness of Northwest Mississippi Junior College's 1984 Summer Youth Employment Training Program, which involved 133 disadvantaged learners between the ages of 14 and 21 in an eight-week educational program focusing on remediation in mathematics and communication skills, career exploration, and job-search skills. Reviews related…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Career Exploration, Community Colleges, Disadvantaged Youth
Peer reviewedStokrocki, Mary – Art Education, 1986
The experiences of 11 gifted and talented adolescents who participated in a two-week summer microcomputer graphics course at Indiana University are described based on course observations by the author. Focus is on technical and aesthetic course expectations and on psychological and contextual considerations of the teacher and the students. (RM)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics
Peer reviewedPeritt, Denise C. – NASSP Bulletin, 1997
To counter Hispanic migrant youth's educational discontinuities and high dropout rate, Congress established the national Migrant Education Program as part of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The Hawkins-Stafford Amendment (1988) expanded students' eligibility. Describes exemplary programs for older students: PASS (Portable Assisted…
Descriptors: Algebra, Distance Education, Dropout Rate, Educational Technology
Winds of Change, 1994
Profiles 40 companies, agencies, and colleges that offer summer internships and cooperative education programs for American Indian high school, college, and graduate students. Includes program descriptions, prerequisites, deadline and requirements for application, and name and address of contact persons. (LP)
Descriptors: American Indian Education, College Students, Colleges, Cooperative Education
Peer reviewedRobbins, Rockey – Journal of American Indian Education, 1991
The coordinator of a summer residential enrichment program for gifted Indian students reports their thoughts on Indian identity and peer and family pressures to suppress their abilities. Students outlined educational problems and solutions related to racial prejudice, high Indian dropout rates, few Indians in higher education, and high…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians, Dropouts
Peer reviewedOlszewski-Kubilius, Paula – Journal of Secondary Gifted Education, 1998
A review of the research on the talent-search identification protocol of gifted students finds talent-search scores on Scholastic Assessment Tests at the junior-high level are valid indicators of students who can succeed in courses that are accelerated in terms of content and learning pace. Effects may be especially positive for academically…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Females
Peer reviewedDwyer, Sonya Corbin; Tilley, Betty Mercer – Rural Educator, 2001
A rural Canadian secondary school developed a cross-age peer-assisted summer program to improve academic achievement and career awareness. Although there was no significant improvement in math grades for female participants, 91 percent of students claimed the program helped them in their present courses. Other outcomes included improved academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Active Learning, Career Counseling, Foreign Countries
