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Nelson, J. Ron; Sanders, Elizabeth A.; Gonzalez, Jorge – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
The purpose of the current study was to test the efficacy of a supplemental phonological awareness focused intervention delivered by community-based paraeducators with preschool children (M = 4.73 years) in eight Head Start classrooms in the rural Midwest. Participating children were randomly assigned to small groups within classrooms, which were…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Phonological Awareness, Preschool Children, Tutors
Nevin, Ann; Malian, Ida; Moores-Abdool, Whitney; Marshall, Deidre; Voigt, Jorine; Salazar, Magda; Gonzalez, Liana; Escarpio, Raul; Liston, Andrea – Online Submission, 2008
The authors share the results of an ongoing study of the changing roles that paraeducators may face when they work in inclusive classrooms. The results of the study may fill an identified research gap regarding what para-educators in inclusive classrooms actually do (given that only 7 studies published between 1999-2006). The results of the pilot…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Teacher Attitudes, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Inclusive Schools
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Jarvis, Tina; Hingley, Philip; Pell, Anthony – Journal of In-service Education, 2008
Science teachers in the England have always relied on the support of largely self-taught technicians when preparing classroom practicals. The technicians have acquired some of their expertise through ad hoc mentoring by senior colleagues, but very few have had any extended training. This research set out to explore the changing attitudes of 40…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Staff Development
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Aylen, Mike – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2007
The author describes the changes which classroom assistants have seen over the past 40 years in terms of their job title and role. He argues that the Plowden Report's recommendations for greater responsibilities, better training opportunities and an increase in the number of teaching assistants in schools are at last being implemented.
Descriptors: Staff Development, Teacher Aides, Parent Participation, Parent Role
Canadian Teachers' Federation (NJ1), 2009
Generally speaking, teacher assistants provide needed support to teachers by carrying out a range of non-professional tasks in classrooms and schools. The growing use of teacher assistants in Canadian public schools is an issue that is embedded in a complex mix of related issues, policies and trends--class size in conjunction with class…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Class Size, Student Diversity, Special Needs Students
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Dillow, Celia – Qualitative Inquiry, 2009
This article describes a struggle and a journey. It shows a struggle between the need to be scholarly and the desire to be evocative; it travels carefully along a path toward less certainty. The article discusses how the author, as a doctoral student, was aware of the need to address her innate resistance to "use" theory and how she struggled to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Theories, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Ethnography
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Mercuri, Sandra Patricia – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2012
This qualitative research looks at the effects that language choices and cultural practices have on identity development in the education of minority students in the United States. It examines the educational journey of Irma, a Latina educator. Through the analysis of interviews with the participant, this paper intends to show the effects of…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Minority Groups, Self Concept, Second Language Learning
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Gibson, Howard; Patrick, Helen – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2008
National governments in Britain have consistently promised that, while they would legislate for a curriculum, it would not tell teachers how to teach. Our article suggests, however, that this policy is compromised with the current programme to "remodel the workforce" and augment the role of the classroom or teaching assistant. It does…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Aides, Government School Relationship, Professional Autonomy
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Raval, Harini; McKenney, Susan; Pieters, Jules – Studies in Continuing Education, 2010
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are being recognized globally for their influential role in realizing the UN Millennium Development Goal of education for all in developing countries. NGOs mostly employ untrained para-educators for grassroots activities. The professional development of these teachers is critical for NGO effectiveness, yet…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nongovernmental Organizations, Models, Lesson Plans
Olivero, James L. – 1970
A far-reaching 1968 study on teacher aides revealed that very little was known about the aid that aides supposedly provide. It was found that there is some direct relationship between the use of aides and action programs to improve instruction. Some general points crop up regularly: 1) Teachers who have aides usually will not do without them. 2)…
Descriptors: Teacher Aides
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Souto-Manning, Mariana; Cahnmann-Taylor, Melisa; Dice, Jaime; Wooten, Jennifer – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2008
While early childhood education programs seek to provide the tools to work with children and explore content, many fail to address the social and emotional contexts in which early childhood education occurs. This is evident in the seldom addressed topic of collaboration between lead teachers and assistant teachers in the early childhood classroom.…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Aides, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
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Bourke, Patricia; Carrington, Suzanne – Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2007
In Queensland, inclusive education reform is on the political agenda, following the report of the Ministerial Taskforce on Inclusive Education (students with disabilities) in 2004. The Government's responses to the initiatives outlined in the taskforce report emphasise a commitment to social justice and equity so that all students can be included…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Inclusive Schools, Teacher Aides, Disabilities
Franklin, Annette – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This oral history study addressed the problem of under-representation of minority teachers through the voices and perspectives of five African American female paraprofessional teacher aides who entered the teaching profession through participation in the Career Opportunities Program in Erie, Pennsylvania from 1970 through 1974. Two theoretical…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Race, Teacher Aides, Employment Opportunities
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Wilson, Elizabeth; Bedford, Dorothy – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2008
This paper describes a three-year research partnership between Roehampton University in London and VT Four S Ltd, providers of school support services in Surrey, a county in the south east of England. The project, named "New Partnerships for Learning" (NPfL), was centred on the delivery of a professional development programme to equip…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Aides, Teacher Collaboration, Teamwork
Macfarlane, Ruth – 1969
Pasadena City College's Institute for Teacher Aides is a New Careers project to upgrade indigenous nonprofessionals in antipoverty agencies for career-ladder employment as bilingual aides in inner-city/ghetto schools of Greater Los Angeles. Its operating grant, under the Education Professions Development Act, is for two sessions (summer and fall…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teacher Aides, Career Opportunities, Disadvantaged Youth, Paraprofessional Personnel
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