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Peer reviewedJelinek, Janis A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1976
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Disadvantaged Youth, Exceptional Child Research, Language Acquisition
Fleming, Elmer; Leppert, Alice – Cogito - Knowledge and Action in Adult Education, 1971
Discusses the need for paraprofessionals and volunteers in adult education programs, the sort of individual best suited to these positions, opportunities in the field, qualifications required, and training sessions which are available. (DR)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Career Opportunities
Download full textMacfarlane, Ruth – 1970
This 9-month training program for paraprofessionals started in June 1969 with a 6-week summer session, followed by fall and spring semesters in 1969 and 1970. Its objectives were to train indigenous nonprofessionals as teacher aide assistants for employment in inner city and ghetto schools, to meet the current shortage of certificated bilingual…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Differentiated Staffs, Ghettos, Indigenous Personnel
Scientific Resources, Inc., Union, NJ. – 1967
This proposal to use nonprofessional aides in school and afterschool programs in Newark, N.J., delineates five program objectives: (1) to develop the two new positions of nonprofessional teacher aide and assistant teacher; (2) to develop, in cooperation with Newark State College and Montclair State College, training programs to move…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Job Training, Language Acquisition
Ferver, Jack, Ed.; Cook, Doris M., Ed. – 1968
This handbook was prepared to assist administrators and instructors of teacher-aide personnel to deal with the expanding recruitment, training, and utilization of paraprofessionals in education. Some of the objectives of the handbook are (1) to define the role of teacher-aide, (2) to establish guidelines for their preservice and inservice…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Institutes (Training Programs), Nonprofessional Personnel, Personnel Evaluation
Avco Economic Systems Corp., Washington, DC. – 1968
This third volume of a 3-volume publication designed to aid Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) personnel in training teacher and dormitory aides lists the participants at 4 teacher aide workshops held for BIA supervisory personnel. The purposes and objectives of teacher aides, recruitment, selection, and preparation as seen by the workshop…
Descriptors: American Indians, Course Content, Cultural Background, Dormitories
Carmen, Gary O., Ed. – 1971
Summarized are proceedings of a 3-day special institute in Syracuse, New York, for teachers and paraprofessionals to examine the role of the teacher aide in public school programs for emotionally disturbed children. Noted in two greetings are types of aides such as audiovisual aides or lunchroom aides in New York public schools, amendments to…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Emotional Disturbances, Evaluation, Exceptional Child Education
Peer reviewedCowen, Emory L.; Lorion, Raymond, P. – Journal of Special Education, 1974
The Primary Mental Health Project is described as an innovative school mental health program that uses nonprofessional child-aides as direct help-agents with young maladapting school children. (GW)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research, Nonprofessional Personnel
Avco Economic Systems Corp., Washington, DC. – 1968
The training provided for teacher and dormitory aides to work in Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools and the hope for an improved educational setting for Indian children are reflected in this publication. Four teacher aide workshops conducted during the 1967-68 academic year resulted in a 3 volume publication designed to aid BIA personnel. The…
Descriptors: American Indians, Course Content, Cultural Background, Dormitories
Mills, Helen – 1972
An individualized instruction program in which the teacher was able to be more highly involved with 350 students than she was in five conventional classes of 25 students each is described. The success of the Basic Writing Skills course at American River College, Sacramento, California, depends largely on the careful organization of course content,…
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Course Organization, English Instruction, Individualized Instruction
Peer reviewedPalma, Gloria M. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1994
Discusses importance of paraprofessionals in rural special education. Suggests that positive teacher-paraprofessional relationships are obtained through valuing each other's respective roles; giving credit where due; involving paraprofessionals in planning and decision making; showing paraprofessionals the why as well as the how of lessons;…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Interprofessional Relationship
RILES, WILSON C.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE CALIFORNIA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS TO DETERMINE IF THE RACIAL AND ETHNIC COMPOSITION OF EMPLOYEES WAS CONFORMING WITH STATE LAW. AT THE K-12 LEVEL ABOUT 75 PERCENT OF THE STUDENTS IN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE OF THE ANGLO CAUCASIAN GROUP. MEMBERS OF THAT GROUP HOLD 91 PERCENT OF THE…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Blacks, Educational Opportunities, Ethnic Distribution
Rankin, Paul T., Jr. – 1968
A study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of six approaches to beginning reading instruction (basal, linguistic, phonic, programed reading, i/t/a, and unifon) in schools serving educationally disadvantaged children and to determine the effectiveness of lay aides in project classrooms. Subjects were approximately 4,000 pupils in primary…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Beginning Reading, Educationally Disadvantaged, Initial Teaching Alphabet
York, L. Jean – 1971
The second of seven modules on team teaching, this document deals with the roles of professional and paraprofessional personnel, so that preservice and inservice teachers may understand and appreciate how team teaching can make efficient use of all available human resources. The study material includes five articles: 1) "Personnel" by Delbert M.…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Differentiated Staffs, Guides, Inservice Teacher Education
KEELY, SUZANN – 1967
SEVENTY-ONE CHILDREN WERE ENROLLED IN THE KICKAPOO-NORTH CANADIAN PROJECT FOR A PERIOD OF 2 MONTHS OR LONGER. THIS REPORT IS DIVIDED INTO 7 SECTIONS AND 2 APPENDICES. PART I CONTAINS A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRESS OF EACH CHILD DURING THE PROJECT. PART II CONTAINS BIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE STAFF. PART III CONTAINS A LIST OF SPECIAL…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Enrichment Activities, Family Involvement, Family School Relationship
