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Rose, Harold, Ed.; And Others – 1981
Designed by Kentucky paraprofessional home instructors from their own personal experiences, this handbook is a practical guide to the Paraprofessional Home Instruction Program for new paraprofessionals, their supervisors, and other interested adult educators. An introduction describes home instruction for adults who desire basic educational…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Diagnostic Teaching, High School Equivalency Programs
Download full textRiordan, Mary – 1973
The manual, to be used by the itinerant resource teacher, presents teaching objectives and proficiency levels for the development of communication, living, and social skills of visually handicapped students in kindergarten through grade 12. Communication skills are enumerated (number is indicated in parentheses) for totally blind students in areas…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Blindness, Braille, Communication Skills
Phillips, Richard; And Others – 1986
Directed primarily toward small school administrators and school boards, this publication describes a consortium of five rural school districts in central Missouri and how they used a traveling teacher to facilitate incorporation of microcomputer capabilities into the school systems' operation and curriculum. The paper describes the use of the…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Computer Literacy, Consortia, Educational Technology
Priority Country Area Program Office, Brisbane (Australia). – 1987
Four Priority Country Area overviews, one State overview and one Project Profile are included in this report from the Priority Country Area Program (PCAP), designed to improve the educational opportunities of rural Queensland children. The program resulted from a 1977-79 Schools Commission report suggesting that rural students may be disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Background, Cultural Enrichment, Dance
Fowler, Clifford F.; Peters, Joanne – 1983
Begun in 1978 to bring manual arts experience to children in Queensland's "disadvantaged country areas," the Mobile Manual Arts Unit by the end of the 1980 school year had visited 16 separate locations, involving 25 different schools. A total of 727 students had participated (out of a target population of 992 pupils) and a total of 259…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Distance, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Conti, Gary J.; And Others – 1978
New Start, a public service program sponsored by Spoon River College (Illinois) in cooperation with local public agencies and individuals in the community, was created to provide broad-based quality education, which includes both academic and vocational skills and personalized educational placement and counseling. Students qualify for New Start by…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Vocational Education, Community Colleges, Compensatory Education
LOVELESS, JOHN E. – 1967
THE INTERMEDIATE DISTRICT, ESTABLISHED BY LAW IN NEW YORK STATE IN 1948, IS A COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL VENTURE PROVIDING SMALL RURAL SCHOOLS WITH SERVICES WHICH ARE NOT USUALLY POSSIBLE, DUE TO THE SIZE AND ISOLATION OF THESE SCHOOL DISTRICTS. SEVERAL OF THESE INTERMEDIATE DISTRICTS, LABELED BOCES (BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES), HAVE…
Descriptors: Administration, Ancillary School Services, Cooperating Teachers, Data Processing
Moorhead, Gaye – Momentum, 1996
Describes a pilot project, a mobile Catholic school with a health and pastoral services ministry, which follows its students, migrant children, from Ohio to Florida every year. Indicates the program emphasizes a holistic approach to combat attrition, flexibility, and the active participation of its parents. (10 citations) (AJL)
Descriptors: Catholic Educators, Catholic Schools, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1982
This report is an evaluation of the Bilingual/Bicultural Demonstration Project for Teachers of Emotionally Disturbed Children, a program which supplemented the basic special education program by providing (1) staff training and consultation; (2) materials development, selection and evaluation; and (3) assistance in the diagnosis of educational…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Bilingual Education Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
CONNOR, FRANCES P. – 1964
THIS MONOGRAPH PRESENTS A VIEW OF EDUCATION FOR HOMEBOUND AND HOSPITALIZED CHILDREN AND SHOWS ITS SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN RESPECT TO GENERAL EDUCATION. CHAPTER TWO FOCUSES ON THE TEACHER AS A PERSON, DISCUSSING PHILOSOPHICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SOCIOLOGICAL FACTORS. PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION AND GENERAL EDUCATION PREPARATION ARE ALSO…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Curriculum, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Needs
Hatlen, Philip H. – 1980
The importance of providing adequate support systems in educating the visually impaired (VI) child is explored in this sourcebook. It is presented as a guide for the regular classroom teacher. It explains the evolution of various contemporary support systems, pros and cons of various placement systems, and problems of ineffective support systems…
Descriptors: Children, Daily Living Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Itinerant Teachers
Lobuts, Joseph E. – 1977
Using an itinerant team of professional rehabilitation personnel, a three-year project was conducted in West Virginia to provide the older blind in three counties (Cabell, Wood, Kanawha) with comprehensive rehabilitation services in both the home and community so that they could become as independent as possible, and, if possible, obtain gainful…
Descriptors: Blindness, Communication Skills, Community Resources, Daily Living Skills
Peer reviewedBina, Michael J. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1987
Focuses on the shortcomings and advantages of rural special education itinerant service delivery and suggests practical strategies for dealing with difficult work conditions. Includes implications for school administrators and teacher-training personnel. Emphasizes that itinerant teachers themselves must adjust to change, modify expectations, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Coping, Elementary Secondary Education
PDF pending restorationCarruth, Ellen D.; Black, Robert S. – 1986
This document contains tabular displays of data pertaining to the number of handicapped pupils served by South Carolina public schools for the 1985-86 academic year. Charts provide information on: (1) public school programs for handicapped children (reported by category of handicapping condition and program model); (2) handicapped children…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Educational Diagnosis
Alaska Office of the Governor, Juneau. – 1966
During the first phase of this project, from June 1964 to November 1965, the effectiveness and feasibility of centralized training in offsetting the employment problems of rural Alaska were tested. Recruitment was handled through mail contacts with village councils and subsequent recruitment trips to the villages. Training at a state vocational…
Descriptors: Cooperatives, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
