This report presents the evaluation of the Chelsea Bilingual-Bicultural Program for the 1973-1974 academic year, a project funded by Title VII of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, as amended, and also by the city. Program staff included the following: program director, materials specialist, community worker, English as a Second Language…

This directory contains the names of educators and paraprofessionals who might be of help in the education of newly arrived Vietnamese refugees in the United States. The criteria for selection of the individual educators were: (1) the educator has taught, or was trained to teach, in Vietnam or Cambodia; (2) the educator has some special expertise,…

The Maine State Department of Education and the Continuing Education Division of Maine State University provided a series of summer institutes in 1968 at selected university locations throughout the state for presently employed or prospective teacher aides. Courses were offered to 116 teacher aides in education and the teacher aide, classroom…

The document provides an overview of the history and purpose of the educational service center for teachers of migrant and Indian children in the State of Washington. The center, a project of the Department of Education of Central Washington College, is located on an Indian reservation in the Yakima Valley in the central part of the state. The…

The Tacoma Public Schools Early Childhood Program is a comprehensive effort to give economically disadvantaged children an early education program which will have continuity and long-range effectiveness. Involving 5 years of education (3-year-olds through grade 3), the program uses the Responsive Environment Model, which has as its objectives the…

The project on which this document reports intends to (1) implement a three-year and a four-year sequential curriculum based upon developmental concepts, (2) change the traditional roles of the teacher and the student, (3) accommodate individual differences in children's levels and learning rates, (4) involve parents in the education and cognitive…

The University of Victoria and the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs sponsored a 4-week prekindergarten, preschool, and orientation program for Indian children living on 4 reserves in the southern region of Vancouver Island. The 3 groups of children served were 4- and 5-year-olds (prekindergarten), 5- and 6-year-olds (preschool), and 7-…

This book reports a 2-year program of recruiting, selecting, training, and developing job opportunities for 168 youth, primarily Negro, from the inner-city ghetto areas of Washington, D.C. Part 1 overviews the project which was designed to provide jobs and income to the young, multiproblem, unemployed poor, and to fill unmet needs for staff and…

This Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III project aimed at assimilating foreign born and Puerto-Rican children in the Hoboken, New Jersey public school system. Eight programs are described: two-week staff visits to Puerto-Rican schools, teacher exchanges between Hoboken and Puerto Rican school systems, inservice course for teaching…

Twenty stories relative to American Indian culture are printed as they were prepared by Indian ladies attending a 4-week summer course for the training of teacher aides. Each participant in the workshop, held at Centennial College in Toronto, was asked to record a story from her home reservation so the stories could be shared with others. The…

The Center for the Study of Migrant and Indian Education was designed to provide a continuity of educational goals among agencies, colleges and public schools. Topics included in this evaluation report are the advisory committee proceedings, accomplishments of curriculum materials services, student-teaching, language games program, training of…

In this evaluation report, special attention is given to Elementary and Secondary Education Title I activities conducted by local educational agencies in the major urban areas of New York State, and to those conducted by the New York City Board of Education and its decentralized districts. The nine-part report, which presents specific data…

During fiscal year 1971, the Oregon State Migrant Education Program, funded by the Title I Migrant Amendment, enrolled 6,099 students in grades K-12. Of these, 4,092 were enrolled in the regular school term and 2,007 were enrolled in summer programs. The Migrant Education Service Center expanded on its provision of diagnostic and prescriptive…

This paper outlines the history of paraprofessionals and reviews the reasons for their use. However, its main focus is on the specific ways in which these people are currently being used in the schools. The authors discuss the two major kinds of paraprofessionals -- service-oriented and instructional -- and analyze the various methods that have…

The original impetus for Alaskan Instructional Aides was derived from the Alaskan section of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and was jointly funded by them and the Manpower Development and Training Act. Since that initial program in 1966, the BIA has funded 2 additional programs training instructional Aides for BIA schools in Alaska. More than…