Parents, Schools and HSSR

As parents become more involved in the schools and as schools st rive to involve parents in meaningful ways and extend the work that is done in schools, educators should look at promising educational practices that can be reinforced in the home environment. One of these reinforcing, supportive activIties that are feasible for all parents and children, yet do not require instructional technology, is Sustained Silent Reading, which has been effectively utilized in schools

Evaluation/Testing Procedures In Reading

This is the second in a series of four articles devoted to parents and reading. The first article described typical school reading programs and illustrated the key ingredients of each. This article treats the evaluation and testing procedures that schools use in the area of reading

Technological Resources For Parents

This is the final article in the series devoted to parents and reading. The first article described typical school reading programs. The second article described different types, purposes and scores of reading tests. The third article focused upon parental involvement in reading and presented activities that could be used at home and school. This article will focus upon recent technological advances, such as television, VCRs and computers, and how parents can use these tools to help their children

Parents: An Untapped Resource

This is the third in a series of four articles devoted to parents and reading. The first article described typical school reading programs. The second article described different types, purposes, and scores of reading tests. This article will focus upon parental involvement in reading and will examine research and activities that can be beneficial at home and at school

School-Based Reading Programs

There are three basic types of reading programs that your child is likely to encounter; they include the basal reading approach, the language experience approach and the individualized reading approach. The major components, strengths and weaknesses of each approach are presented in Figure 1 at the end of the article. The basal reader approach is used in the majority of elementary classrooms

Reading is Fun: A School Reading Motivation Project

Elementary teachers and university personnel combined efforts to develop a motivation system that could be implemented within a classroom or school buildin

The Reading Conference: Questions, Information, Activities and Feedback

Just as a lesson can fail because of poor planning, so can a conference. To avoid this, the teacher must make some preliminary decisions. The teacher must first decide the purpose of the conference. According to Hunter (1976), there are three types of conferences and each type serves a different purpose. These types include giving information, receiving information and problem solving. We are now ready to enter the first phase of the conference

New development: Directly elected mayors in Italy: creating a strong leader doesn’t mean creating strong leadership

More than 20 years after their introduction, directly elected mayors are key players in Italian urban governance. This article explains the main effects of this reform on local government systems and provides lessons for other countries considering directly elected mayors

西村先生講話 第二回

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