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Teaching Intervention: "At Risk" Students Enabling Them To Succeed In School, Jeanie Harper
Teaching Intervention: "At Risk" Students Enabling Them To Succeed In School, Jeanie Harper
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During the 1988-1989 school year, a teacher intervention program with "at risk" students was implemented at Wentzville High School. The project involved ten ''at risk" students who were currently enrolled in a reading class. These subjects were in grade nine through twelve and all had been labeled "at risk" by the district . The criteria used was several failed courses, excessive absences, repeated behavioral problems and a general inability to get along with their educators as well as their peers . An attempt was made to see if teacher intervention could help these students succeed in school by improving their …
Opinions Of Elementary Teachers Regarding The Effects Of Hugging Students, John E. Graham Iii
Opinions Of Elementary Teachers Regarding The Effects Of Hugging Students, John E. Graham Iii
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Lindenwood College Resource Center: A Development Plan, Elizabeth Ann Herod
Lindenwood College Resource Center: A Development Plan, Elizabeth Ann Herod
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This project developed out of the need for an in-house on-campus graduate and post graduate training program for the non-traditional students of LCIE (Lindenwood College for Individualized Education> in Professional Psychology. The need for a college counseling center to meet those training expectations was established by literature review. Colleges need counseling centers which offer a variety of high quality services and training to students and to the community. Off-campus practicum sites are beset with problems. Graduate students who have the opportunity to involve themselves in training programs at college centers reap the optimum benefits of professionalism and ethics in coordination …
Cooperative Learning Workshop, Kathy Boessen
Cooperative Learning Workshop, Kathy Boessen
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The purpose of this workshop was to inform Lincoln County R-III teachers of the valuable aspects of cooperative or team learning . Research has shown that students at all grade levels have benefitted both academically and socially. Also, with this learning method alternative, teachers and students alike derived pleasure from the improved relaxed atmosphere brought about by collegial learning . The workshop, staged in 3 two-hour sessions, enabled elementary, junior-high, and secondary teachers to learn about cooperative learning while being cooperative learners . They worked cooperatively on various projects which could be adapted in their own classrooms. Subsequent informal gettogethers …