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McBride, Deborah – 1978
This inservice packet is designed to guide teachers in training paraprofessionals to function in the school community. Complete lesson plans are included for six lessons of approximately 45 minutes to an hour. Specific measurable objectives are cited, and participant activities include: (1) discussing the value and use of paraprofessional…
Descriptors: Inservice Education, Lesson Plans, On the Job Training, Paraprofessional School Personnel
Download full textHarstead, Pat; Venner, Herb – 1970
Project Homebound by the Butte Vocational Technical Center and School District Number 1, Butte, Montana, entails the teaching of American Indian and Mexican American adult basic education (ABE) students in their own homes. A unique aspect of this program is the use of personnel with varied educational backgrounds: master teachers (with…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, American Indians, Demonstration Programs, Home Instruction
Denver Opportunity, CO. – 1968
THIS DOCUMENT PROVIDES A DESCRIPTIVE SURVEY OF PROJECT HEAD START ACTIVITIES IN DENVER, COLORADO. THE PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM ARE CITED AS (1) CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EXPERIENCES IN AN ENLARGED ENVIRONMENT, (2) SELF-CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SUCCESSFUL INTERACTION WITH TEACHERS AND WITH PEERS, AND (3) THE DEVELOPMENT OF…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Objectives, Enrichment Activities, Health Services
Stavros, Denny – 1971
The School Volunteers Program functions to facilitate the recruitment and placement of volunteers in several Title I designated schools, and is funded under Title I, E.S.E.A. While the services provided by the volunteers may on occasion include non-instruction related duties, the principal role performed by the volunteer is that of a tutor. Thus,…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attendance Patterns, Compensatory Education, Program Evaluation
Oklahoma City Public School System, OK. – 1971
Five units, designed as tools and guides for volunteers assisting students and teachers in skill development, are presented in this manual focusing on "instructional re-enforcement" within the social studies classroom. Unit I presents ideas for developing group dynamic skills in an inquiry centered classroom, lists suggestions for discussion group…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Discovery Processes, Elementary Education, Group Dynamics
Illinois State Office of Education, Springfield. – 1976
Beginning in 1973, meetings of 12 regional education advisory councils (composed of students, teachers, parents, administrators, board members, superintendents, and other citizens) studied volunteer programs in Illinois to determine their drawbacks and to formulate recommendations for expanding the concept of volunteers in education. This…
Descriptors: Career Education, Citizens Councils, Educational Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Lyons, Peggy; And Others – 1982
Intended to help school districts or schools trying to encourage the involvement of parents, this handbook presents ideas and suggestions gathered from local projects as well as a self-assessment manual and a guide describing helpful available materials. Part 1 contains recommendations concerning how to initiate and organize parental involvement…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Secondary Education
Janoff, Dean S.; Meiers, Gary J. – 1977
Recent years have witnessed an accumulating volume of research in the areas of classroom management, parent training, teacher training, and training of paraprofessionals. While much of this research has demonstrated significant results experimentally, many of these approaches have yet to be adopted as part of the counseling and personnel services…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classroom Research, Community Resources, Elementary Schools
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. – 1973
Developed to aid school-level administrators of the School Volunteer Program (SVP), this handbook is organized into five sections as follows: (1) what the responsibilities of SVP leaders are, including SVP resource person and volunteer chairman job description; (2) with whom SVP leaders work, including communication network, division of…
Descriptors: Guides, Instructional Materials, Leaders Guides, Leadership Responsibility
University of Southern California, Los Angeles. School of Education. – 1976
This document describes a five-week program designed to assist and train paraprofessionals in the classroom. Goals of the program include the following: That paraprofessionals and community volunteers become more effective and knowledgeable about their students, about teacher relationships, their role, school functioning, and more accepted as…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Child Development, Classroom Techniques
Shumaker, Kitty, Ed.; And Others – 1977
This manual is designed to inform parents about their role in the Behavior Analysis Follow Through Program. This program was designed to meet the educational needs of low-income students in the kindergarten through third grades and was validated as an effective and exemplary educational program by the U. S. Office of Education. The program…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Behavioral Objectives, Behavioral Science Research, Community Services
Ford, Wendy W. – 1979
This paper describes the parental involvement component of Project Follow Through, a Federally funded program designed to follow up on the children who had participated in Project Head Start. Comments and impressions gathered from interviews with teachers, parents and administrators in school districts that were linked to one Follow Through…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Low Income Groups, Lower Class Parents, Parent Associations
Thurber, John C. – 1973
This document reports on a project aimed at developing, implementing, and evaluating a plan for using volunteer classroom aides in the Palm Beach County (Florida) schools as a means for meeting various financial, human, and community needs. The desirability of a comprehensive volunteer plan was presented in a 10-point summary by an ad hoc…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Schools, Individualized Instruction
Ireland, Vera M.; Lauchner, Jan – 1972
The goal for the instructional program at Luckie Street Elementary School was to improve instruction in all subject areas at all grade levels. However, reading was identified as the subject area which would be emphasized in grades one through seven, with special help for grades one through three, through the Comprehensive Instructional Program.…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Counseling Services, Elementary Schools, Experimental Schools
Mark, Jorie Lester – 1975
This study was intended to fill the gap in available data on paraprofessional funding and programming in the public school systems by focusing on the training and utilization of paraprofessionals in school years 1971-72 and 1972-73 in the 1,800 public school systems around the nation which enroll 5,000 pupils or more. A total of 1,148 school…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Educational Finance, Inservice Education, Paraprofessional School Personnel
