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Preventing Reading Failure: A Handbook For Understanding Reading Recovery, Marianne Nash
Preventing Reading Failure: A Handbook For Understanding Reading Recovery, Marianne Nash
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The purpose of this project was to create a handboook designed for use by primary teachers who are interested in learning more about Reading Recovery. The handbook covers the following issues: 1) a brief description of Reading Recovery, 2) how to get a program started, 3) how to select, plan for, and when to discontinue students from Reading Recovery services, 4) Reading Recovery teaching procedures, 5) where training sites are located, 6) a bibliography of suggested books, and 7) obtaining books through mini-grant applications and book orders.
Volunteer Assisted Reading, Linda Laurene Young
Volunteer Assisted Reading, Linda Laurene Young
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The problem investigated in this study relates to the need in schools today to find ways of providing educational support assistance for classroom teachers as part of the classroom learning process. With the continued rise in school enrollments, it is difficult for school funding to keep up with growing educational demands. Favorable student-teacher ratio issues emphasize the need to provide additional help for the classroom teacher. Finding additional classroom help has become a major concern; parents' commitments to employment and social obligations have changed their availability to participate at the schoolhouse and have lessened parent-child contact time (Cassidy, 1981). According …
The Mukilteo Elementary School Parent Handbook, Lora Lee Wilson
The Mukilteo Elementary School Parent Handbook, Lora Lee Wilson
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A handbook orienting parents to a school is an important first step in helping parents become acquainted and ultimately involved with their child's school. A survey of literature to determine the need for a handbook was conducted. Handbooks currently in use were collected and examined to determine the categories of information typically found in orientation type handbooks. Finally, the policies, procedures, and special programs and services specific to Mukilteo Elementary School in the Mukilteo School District were examined to select the most pertinent information to include in an orientation handbook designed specifically for this school. Ideas for additional ways to …
A Study Of Programs Designed To Stimulate Students' Independent Reading, Elizabeth K. Welsh
A Study Of Programs Designed To Stimulate Students' Independent Reading, Elizabeth K. Welsh
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to determine what types of programs designed to stimulate students' independent reading were being utilized or had been utilized in the past five years in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This descriptive study examined how such programs were selected, implemented, and evaluated plus business involvement and incentives.;The sample consisted of 102 or 77% of the 132 school divisions whose superintendents had an original and confidential survey completed and returned.;of the 367 programs, Pizza Hut's accounted for 87% and SSR for 78%. A literature search or a professional journal influenced the selection of 34%. Businesses were …
Selected Personality Characteristics As Correlates Of Effective School Principals, Elizabeth Jean Shahmouradian
Selected Personality Characteristics As Correlates Of Effective School Principals, Elizabeth Jean Shahmouradian
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to examine selected personality characteristics of commitment, control, and challenge as correlates of effective school principals. Twenty-five Directors of Personnel were selected to identify 100 effective school principals. Two to eight principals rated as effective were selected for this research from each of the 25 school systems throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. It was hypothesized that there is a correlation between selected identified personality characteristics and principals rated as more effective by personnel directors. It was concluded that the selected personality characteristics of commitment, control, and challenge are not correlates of effective principals and …
A Preferred Vision For Administering Elementary Schools : A Reflective Essay, Janie M. Adams
A Preferred Vision For Administering Elementary Schools : A Reflective Essay, Janie M. Adams
Graduate Research Papers
Some of the articles and books that are referred to in the body of this paper are written by African- Americans about the plight of our African-American children in yesterday's, today's and tomorrow's schools. In writing this paper I address some basic needs for all children. Yet of most pressing concern to me are the African-American student and other students of color. Brown versus Topeka, Kansas was in 1954, but in the eyes of many African-Americans separate but equal is alive and well. With the prospect of a voucher system looming on the horizon it is being driven home even …