The Utah State University Elementary Teacher Education Program, SODIA, is multicultural, performance-based, field-centered, and utilizes portal schools as partners in the teacher education program. It is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental program utilizing staff from the Departments of Psychology, Special Education, and Family and Child…

This guide presents a curriculum for a volunteer field aide program. The guide is based on a program that was conducted in New Hampshire that trained volunteers to assist teachers in outdoor environmental education ventures. It was found that the aides helped teachers to expand their existing programs by assisting in supervision, research and…

The purpose of the Aides to Career Education (ACE) Program was to provide assistance to disadvantaged students in vocational education courses in Los Angeles by employing instructional aides to assist in improving the educational performance and in enhancing the employment potential of disadvantaged students. The document briefly outlines the…

The research project described involves young elementary school children with demonstrable learning problems. These children either receive an intervention program or no intervention and are placed in either a regular or a small, self contained classroom setting. Student placement is made on the basis of psychometric test scores and teacher…

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…

This publication contains materials which have been developed, adapted, and utilized by school volunteer programs. Under program operation and coordination, there are: (1) plans for recruiting, speaking, and youth tutoring youth; and (2) sample application, request, and evaluation forms and guidelines for reading volunteers, school volunteer…

The purpose of the study was to determine the effects of class size and the use of teacher aides on pupil behavior and teacher behavior in educable mentally handicapped classes at the primary and intermediate grade levels. In the course of the study 20 classes remained constant and 18 aides were employed throughout the project. Effects on pupil…

The program designed during the Institute for Kindergarten Teachers and Aides of Migrant Children is presented. Emphasis is placed on the concept that in order to learn anything, young children must have direct sensory experience related to the idea to be learned. It is pointed out that basic to all activities is an understanding of child…

A mailed questionnaire survey of public high schools in California and Oregon was conducted to determine if differences exist in the length of tenure and the recruitment of personnel in schools stratified on the basis of adoption of four innovations: Teacher aides, team teaching, variation in class size, and variation in length of class period.…

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…

In response to area schools' requests, the Center for the Study of Migrant and Indian Education at Washington State College has compiled a set of guidelines for the recruitment, selection, preparation and utilization of teacher aides. The source for the guideline data was a Teacher Aide Training Program initiated in October of 1968, wherein 415…

During the past 8 to 10 years education at Sheldon Jackson College (SJC) has shifted to a theme of culture and careers. This paper describes current SJC programs, as well as some that are being considered. The Culture and Native Study Programs, funded in 1968, began with the teaching of the Tlingit Language. As a result, the First Tlingit Language…

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…

"A Look at Indian Education in the 70's" was the theme of this conference, where representatives from 10 American Indian tribes gave general remarks about the status of education on their reservations. Included in the remarks was information on the number of students in higher education, adult education, early childhood programs, and elementary…

As part of Head Start's Planned Variation program, the Demonstration and Research Center for Early Education (DARCEE) preschool model was chosen to be implemented in six Nashville Head Start centers. This study compared two forms of DARCEE training for teachers and teacher aides--the Elaborated Treatment and Abbreviated Treatment--and compared…