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Blatchford, Peter; Russell, Anthony; Webster, Rob – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Over the last decade, teaching assistants (TAs) have become an established part of everyday classroom life. TAs are often used by schools to help low-attaining pupils and those with special educational needs. Yet despite the huge rise in the number of TAs working in UK classrooms, very little is known about their impact on pupils. This key and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Aides, Program Effectiveness, Observation
Detroit Public Schools, MI. – 1968
A study was conducted to evalu"te the effectiveness of Federal Assistance for Staff Training, a project offering inservice education in a workshop format to 6,226 administrators, teachers, secretaries, custodians, and parent-teacher aides from Detroit public and parochial schools. Goals were (1) improving the competencies of staff in their…
Descriptors: Administrators, Custodian Training, Disadvantaged Youth, Inservice Education
Center for Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA. – 1976
The concern of Indian communities for quality education and their insistence on community control of their schools makes school staff development vital. The strategy for staff development outlined in this handbook gives a community one way to make an instant response to staff needs. Workshops place school staff in a stronger position to work with…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, American Indian Education, American Indians, Bilingual Teacher Aides
Mitchell, Mike; Christiansen, James E. – 1978
A job analysis of vocational cooperative teacher-coordinators in secondary schools in Texas was performed. Five questions were investigated: (1) What tasks were performed and what relative percent of time was spent doing these tasks?; (2) When did coordinators learn to do the tasks they do and when did they feel these tasks should have been…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Instructor Coordinators, Job Analysis, Job Training
Johnson, Cleo; Goodwin, Judy – 1977
This document, part of a series of reports on the Philadelphia Follow Through Expansion Program, provides perceptions of program impact. One focus of this report is on (1) pre-program data collected in the summer, 1975 for first grade teachers; in the summer, 1976 for second grade teachers, and in the fall, 1976 for second grade aides. The second…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Parent Participation
Denver Public Schools, CO. – 1968
This report describes, evaluates and makes recommendations for the following programs: reading improvement, team teaching, counseling and tutoring, Head Start follow-through, mental health, after school study, pre-entry orientation for diagnostic and adjustment purposes, teacher-aide activity, school-community aides work study, remedial education…
Descriptors: After School Education, Compensatory Education, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged Youth