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Implementing Creativity And Artistic Programming For Troubled Children And Youth To Enhance Emotional, Social And Academic Growth., Van Earl Wallace Iii.

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was designed to provide individualized and group opportunities to teachers and troubled students in the area of artistic and creative interventions. Implementation focused on individualized student interventions and group formats. In-services and presentations were designed and presented at school, district, college, university and hospital settings.

Instructional workshops and presentations were provided while concurrently working with students on a daily basis using a wide variety of creative formats. Information was specified to educator needs. The writer coordinated with the Very Special Arts of Florida, chapter in conducting in-services and in holding a county-wide art festival for troubled children and …

Development And Validation Of A Computer Keyboarding Seminar For Use In The United States Army, Europe, Robert R. Brooks

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The purposes of this research project were to (1) develop a computer keyboarding seminar for personnel with units of the U.S. Army in Europe, (2) validate that seminar, and (3) develop plans for implementation and evaluation. The need for such a program was evident, as Army units in Europe must arrange local training for many personnel who use computers but who have never been trained because formal training courses have not been modified to include computer keyboarding. The need for- local keyboard training will continue because computers are being increasingly used by Army personnel in more activities. The following research …

Using Educational Technology To Help Retain High-Risk Students In High School Science Class, Harry Ramjus

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The problem to be solved in this practicum was how to assist 73 high-risk youths found in five, low-level, science classes. The problem was caused by academic under-achievement, inappropriate behavior and a low-economic status. The writer designed and implemented several intervention strategies to help retain high-risk students in high school science class. There were five corollary objectives to improve students' academic achievement, increase student attendance and punctuality, reduce student office-referrals, and improve their conduct in the classroom.

The writer used computer assisted instruction, laser video-disk, video-microcomputer, parental involvement and behavioral-modification techniques to help raise students' academic grades, improve their attendance …

Increasing The Number Of Minority Elementary Students Found Eligible For Placement In A Gifted Program By Enhancing The Quality Of Screening Instruments And Inservice Training Provided To School Staff, Gale E. Kofsky

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum aimed to increase the number of minority elementary students in prekindergarten through Grade 5 found eligible for placement in a gifted program by enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of screening instruments and by providing inservice training. The second goal was to increase the understanding of gifted characteristics and their relationship to eligibility by school staff.

Four hands-on inservice training sessions were utilized to familiarize teachers, counselors, and administrators in each of the targeted schools with a preselected group of norm referenced screening instruments and characteristics common to gifted minority and limited English proficient children. The practicum also developed …

A Comprehensive Guide To Improve Christian School Participation In Faccs Accreditation, Howard G. Burke

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This report describes the process by which unaccredited Christian schools may use the accreditation manual and collateral manuals developed during the project to achieve accreditation. Areas of need which were addressed include staff qualifications, the physical facility, documentation of curriculum, goals, aims, and objectives, analysis of standardized achievement tests, disciplinary development of the manuals themselves. policies, and themselves

The products provide specific guidelines for Christian school ministries to use in establishing a self-study process, a step-by-step means for preparing for candidacy, and agendas for the original accreditation visits by team members. Actual first-time accreditations and re-evaluations were conducted to show …

Program To Decrease Obesity Of Mentally Retarded Adults, Joye Jeffries Pugh

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This report explains a program for decreasing obesity of mentally retarded adults served by a mental retardation service center in a southern rural community. Problems originally noticed included enormous body weights of clients, obesity-related diseases, a lack of exercise programming, and failure to participate in Special Olympics.

An analysis of the clients' Individual Physical Data Bases revealed body weights 20X or more over the average for a person's age, build, sex, and height. According to the client medical reports, 50% of the obese clients suffered from medical disorders created by their obesity. A review of the Individual Service Plans indicated …

A Training Program Designed To Enhance Supervision Of Child And Youth Care Workers In Multicultural Settings, Lesley Du Toit

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The majority of child care practitioners promoted to supervisory positions did not have the essential skill and knowledge to ensure effective supervision. Alternatively, supervisory positions were given to practitioners from a related profession, such as social work. In this instance, supervisors had difficulty in recognizing the importance of supervision, and in knowing how to approach supervision of child and youth care workers.

The author designed and implemented a 10 week training programme for child and youth care supervisors. A total of 11 supervisors participated in a three-phase training program which included individual consultations and b training workshops. The workshops focused …

Improving The Motivational Level Of Disaffected Students By Utilizing Alternative Teaching Strategies To Match Learning Styles, Fanchon Brackfield-Godynick

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was proposed to improve the motivational level of disaffected students by utilizing alternative learning strategies designed to match teaching style to the individual learning style of the student. The primary goal was to elevate the test scores on periodic, cumulative, and standardized tests in order to bring students to grade level. The secondary goal was to adjust the curriculum to meet the learning style of the slow learner. Subgoals included decreasing absenteeism, detention, and suspension. Increased parental involvement in school functions and conferences, as well as peer acceptance and approval were also objectives of the practicum.

The eight …

Developing Resources To Assist Families As Their Infants With Disabilities Transition Into Preschool, Claudia B. Fenderson

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There is a lack of adequate information and support given to families during the transitioning of their children from infant to preschool programs. During this transition period, information and assistance are given to families on an inconsistent basis This practicum was designed to provide assistance to famil.es involved in the transition process.

Meetings and questionnaires were used as a means of assessing parent's needs. Based on responses, an Inservice was held in which information requested by parents was provided. A new policy was developed for use by social workers: this policy was designed to ensure that families received consistent, ongoing …

Developing An In-School Suspension Program In An Elementary School As An Alternative To Home-Bound Suspension, Jerry Guindon

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This practicum was developed to address the staff concerns at an elementary school of frequent out-of-school suspensions (OSS) resulting from misbehavior referrals to the principal's office. The staff felt that suspended students were often rewarded by OSS, at risk on the streets, interrupted in their schooling and that they often continued to be repeatedly suspended.

With the school principal's permission, the writer developed an in-school suspension program (ISS) which served as a better alternative to sending students home. ISS was more punitive, safer, more instructive and more rehabilitative.

Collected data over a four-month period reveal that the school principal suspended …

Increasing Literacy Development Of At-Risk Kindergarten Students Through Cross-Age Tutoring, Marlene Henriques

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was designed, through a cross-age tutoring program, to increase emergent literacy skills of at-risk kindergarten children. The objectives were to increase letter recognition, book awareness skills, pre-reading strategies, and pre-writing strategies in the targeted students. In a structured program, the fifth and sixth grade tutors met with the tutees for 30 minutes twice a week for a three month period.

The writer administered qualitative and quantitative pretests which documented the lack of literacy development of at-risk kindergartners. The writer held workshops to train the tutors in reading and writing strategies, developed a schedule of structured activities to complete …

A Cross-Age Tutoring Program To Raise Self-Esteem In Learning Disabled, Regular And Gifted Elementary School Students, Marian J. King

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was originally designed to provide teachers with a means of enhancing the self-esteem of learning disabled (LD) students by using them as cross-age tutors in a Kindergarten class. It was assumed that, by engaging them to help younger students, LD tutors would experience a feeling of accomplishment and self-worth, and therefore develop a sense of being capable, useful, and appreciated. It was further assumed that this more positive self-esteem would lead to a healthier social, emotional and intellectual self-perception and behavior. As the project developed, other students (regular and gifted, including whole 5th and 6th grade classes) asked …

British Literature: Increasing Relevancy For High School Seniors Through Multicultural Augmentation. Doctoral Report Thesis, Nancy C. Kirkland

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The goal of this practicum was to Increase the relevancy of the regular senior English course In British literature and composition by expanding the curriculum to Include selections from countries, other than the United States, influenced by the British Colonial Empire. This approach would render the curriculum more germane to the ethnic diversity of the contemporary classroom.

Using a thematic approach, works were selected to include writer’s representative of African, Aslan, and Hispanic cultures. These additions were enmeshed into the regular canon of British authors. Learning styles and cooperative Learning strategies were employed to promote cooperation and understanding within the …

Using Environmental Print Media To Enhance Third Grade Children’S Reading And Writing Abilities, Rhoda Orenstein

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

A course of study was designed by the writer to enhance the effectiveness of the traditional third grade reader and workpack as instructional tools. The goal was to create, in the targeted third grade students, a familiarity with the purpose and function of varied print media available within the community, thereby creating a foundation upon which the students could base their understanding of the settings, themes, and experiences of the traditional third grace reader.

The writer created a program that utilized varied print media and speakers from within the students' school and community environment. Classroom cooperative learning centers were established. …

A Therapeutic Program To Improve The Body Image Of Pre-Puberty Exceptional Education Girls, Linda Jo Pfeiffer

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum focused upon the design and implementation of a body Image improvement program for severely emotionally disturbed (SED), latency-aged girls. Seven latency-aged girls In a self-contained, SED program participated one time per week In Individual art therapy and group sessions. The program Incorporated therapeutic art activities with verbal Interactions and utilized human growth films, cooperative learning techniques, and child care personnel from outside agencies.

The writer developed a therapeutic program designed to address concerns and problems encountered by latency-aged girls and especially those whose developmental progress has been hampered by both abuse and emotional handicapping conditions. Major Issues addressed …

An Informational Networking And Referral Efficacy Project On Attention Disorders, Add And Adhd: A Design To Advance Student Adjustment In The School Setting, Janice Masters

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The practicum addressed the need to educate school staff and professionals on attention disorders and develop a state-of-the-art referral process system. Untreated students with attention disorders exhibited poor study habits, academic failure, unacceptable behavior. and were subsequent high-at risk of completing high school The implications of untreated moderate-to-severe ADD/ADHD are that the taxpayers cannot afford the high com of failure.

The project was designed and developed by the writer to help students suspected with attention disorders. ADD ADHD, to become identified hy school staff and professionals who referred them for a multimodal assessment. It aimed at helping such students who …

Improving Negative Behavior In Adolescent Pupils Through Collaborative Initiatives, Elvie Rhone

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The aim of this practicum was to decrease the number of adolescent pupils who exhibited negative behavior. It also attempted to involve others as change agents.

Group guidance sessions were designed in collaboration with teachers, parents, high school counselors, administrators and community agencies. Twelve sessions were held weekly with emphasis on self-esteem, role Models, character building, and appropriate behavior. Teacher mentors were used to enhance the program. Data was collected before and after the duration of the sessions. Teacher behavior checklists, interviews, questionnaires, needs assessments, and self-evaluations were employed.

All of the outcomes were achieved. The number of pupils exhibiting …

The Nova Knight Volume Ii: Issue Viii, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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The Update - December 1991, Nova University

The Update

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The Calendar - December 1991, Nova University

The Calendar

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Designing And Implementing A Development Program At Roanoke Valley Christian School., Philip H. Graybeal

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

As a ministry of Shenandoah Baptist Church, Roanoke Valley Christian Schools (RVCS), grew since its founding in 1973 to a size of 535 students (K-12) and 31 teachers. The administrative team consisted of the administrator, elementary principal, secondary principal, and part-time learning disability director.

RVCS reached a plateau in its growth pattern as seen in enrollment statistics that showed a difference of no more than 18 students during any one year from the 1983-88 mean enrollment of 535. Records indicated that development was needed in public relations and recruitment materials, facility expansion, and non-tuition funding.

During the process of the …

The Nova Knight Volume Ii: Issue Vii, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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The Nova Knight Volume Ii: Issue Vi, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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The Update - November 1991, Nova University

The Update

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The Alumni Network, November 1991 (Vol. Vii No. 4), Nova University

Alumni Network Newsletter

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Development, Evaluation, And Plans For Implementation Of An Orientation Model Directed Toward Improving The Overall Adjustment Of Students To A Job Corps Program., J Edward Brown

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The idea of examining the initial orientation of Job Cops students had been discussed at some length by the North Carolina Department of Human Resources (NCDHR) Job Corps staff. It was of primary importance to the Department to do an investigation of this orientation, since it was directly related to the overall adjustment and satisfaction of the students, once they were actually enrolled at a particular: Job Corps center. In order to address the initial orientation, the proposed research study utilized data from several populations in the design and creation of a new formalized model orientation that alleviated disparities which …

The Nova Knight Volume Ii: Issue V, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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Interview With Lawrence Appley, Dr. Joseph M. Juran Collection

'An Immigrant's Gift': Interviews about the Life and Impact of Dr. Joseph M. Juran

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Novafacts - October 10, 1991, Nova University

NovaFacts

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The Nova Knight Volume Ii: Issue Iii, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

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