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Download full textOstenson, Alan; Kemp, Margaret R. – 1984
The purpose of this booklet is to explain to the home teacher (or parent) what career education is, why career education is needed, and how to use career education in the course of teaching elementary students at home. The first two sections of the booklet define career education and explain its purpose. In the next section, some career education…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Career Awareness, Career Education
WEIKART, DAVID P., ED. – 1967
THE PERRY PRESCHOOL PROJECT IS AN EXPERIMENT WITH REPLICATIONS DESIGNED TO ASSESS THE LONGITUDINAL EFFECTS OF A 2-YEAR, COGNITIVELY ORIENTED, COMPENSATORY EDUCATION PROGRAM. SELECTED FROM A POPULATION WHICH IS NEGRO, FUNCTIONALLY RETARDED, AND CULTURALLY DEPRIVED, CONTROL AND EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS ARE EQUATED FOR MEAN CULTURAL-DEPRIVATION RATING AND…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Black Youth, Cognitive Development
Flood, Lily Wong – 1970
This teacher's manual for a preschool second-year program in English as a second language contains daily lesson plans--objectives, activities, exercises, and subject material--for 22 weeks of class. The program is designed for two English instructional periods per day. English should also be used as the medium of instruction in one other subject.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Techniques, Educational Objectives, English (Second Language)
Caldwell, Bettye M. – 1971
A description of the Kramer Project to improve the general welfare of children and families is given. The purpose of the project is to provide age-appropriate developmental guidance from early infancy through the end of childhood years. The school, located in the heart of Little Rock, Ark., provides an educational program for children from infancy…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Child Care, Child Development, Compensatory Education
Ray, Margaret Parkman; And Others – 1973
To examine the differences between mother-child interaction in middle class and in isolated rural poor families, a sample of 24 rural poor and 12 middle class mothers were videotaped as they interacted with their preschool children in structured situations. (Rural poor mothers were found to initiate verbal interaction with a question, a situation…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Communication Skills, Early Childhood Education, Economically Disadvantaged
Pickett, Anna Lou; Semrau, Barbara; Faison, Karen; Formanek, John – 1999
These instructional materials are designed to provide personnel developers and trainers with resources that can be used to improve the performance of paraeducators working in center-based and home visitor programs for young children with disabilities from birth to age 5. The modules cover: (1) strengthening the instructional team, the roles of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Development Centers, Communication Skills, Competency Based Education
Rast, Jim – 1998
This paper reflects on lessons learned from the implementation of KAN Focus, a demonstration project to develop a system of care for children with severe emotional disturbance in rural southeast Kansas. It notes trends toward providing more and younger children with community-based support services which provide family centered services,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, At Risk Persons, Children
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Center for Children with Chronic Illness and Disability. – 1991
This resource manual lists and describes research projects, federally funded between 1989-91, that focus on children, youth, and families living with chronic illness and disabilities. The projects were supported by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, the Child and Adolescent…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Behavior, Children, Chronic Illness
Neilson Associates Pty. Ltd., Melbourne (Australia). – 1988
This consumers' guide provides an easily understandable, large print summary of the recommendations in a 10-year plan for changes in services to people with intellectual disabilities in Victoria, Australia. Twenty of the 250 recommendations of the plan are given in simplified language accompanied by illustrations, including recommendations for:…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Community Programs, Community Resources, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled)
Lenz, Diane – 1985
The Paraprofessional Program of the Institute for Human Development has proven to be an effective means of providing early intervention services in northern Arizona's sparsely populated, culturally diverse rural communities. The program model includes identification and comprehensive professional evaluation of young handicapped children and hiring…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Community Programs
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. – 1980
Home-based intervention, using paraprofessional teachers and the concept of "parent as teacher," was provided by this 3-year project (1977-1980) for handicapped children aged birth through 4 and their families in 10 rural West Texas counties comprising approximately 9,100 square miles, with 14 to 20 people per square mile. Most families…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Family Involvement
Brown, Laurence A., Jr.; Sell, G. Roger – 1977
In order to determine why course enrollments in the SUN (State University of Nebraska) program, which is the University of Mid-America's course delivery system in Nebraska, were markedly lower than expected over a two-year period, a telephone survey with a stratified sample of approximately 1,200 adults was conducted. The survey questions provided…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Adults, Age Differences
Raven, John – 1980
The results of an evaluation of an educational home visiting (EHV) program in Scotland that utilized home visitors (attached to nursery schools) to promote parents' involvement in their children's educational development are presented in this report. Two assessment strategies were employed. One strategy (S1) was used to investigate the practical…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Salzer, Richard T. – 1972
Early childhood education is the topic of this chapter from "Six Crucial Issues in Education." The Foreword and introduction to the book are provided. The following areas are discussed in this chapter: (1) Research--Bloom, Hunt's "Intelligence and Experience," Piaget; (2) Head Start and Other Compensatory Programs; (3) Public…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Books, Child Care, Child Development
Dissemination and Assessment Center for Bilingual Education, Austin, TX. – 1975
This guide is intended as a basic resource for preschool Spanish/English bilingual home training. It presents an overview of the bilingual project of which it is an outgrowth, and offers guidelines for setting up similar programs. The guidelines cover such topics as: (1) tutor selection, training, and evaluation; (2) recommended materials for…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Criterion Referenced Tests
